The first Druglink in May 1986 looked at the heroin situation in Britain. In this, our tenth anniversary issue, we revisit the drug and its new found publicity through Trainspotting and ask the question ” is smack back – or did it ever go away?”
Three new types of user are identified – crack users who have self-medicated with heroin; young socially deprived kids (the new scag kids)’; and graduates from the dance scene.