A leading backbench spokesman on drug policy says cooperation – between drug agencies and between agencies and government is the key to tackling drug problems. A problem of cooperation (PDF)
Tag Archive for AIDS/HIV
Druglink article 1988 – Relief at £3 million to fight AIDS…
but Scotland given just £300,000 Relief at £3 million to fight AIDS (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Groups for HIV positive drug users by Bill Nelles
Some drug users at risk of or with HIV/AIDS have been doubly let down: first by drug services; second by the gay self-help groups they turned to when the services failed to respond. Now groups are being formed by and…
Druglink article 1988 – Wraps against AIDS by Andrew Fraser
How can you bring the anti-AIDS message before drug users each time they take drugs? Brighton’s Drug Advice and Information Service found a novel solution. Wraps against AIDS (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe hygiene by Anthony Ellam
‘Bleach out, boiling in’ was Druglink’s summary of the DHSS’s latest advice on syringe hygiene. Now new work at the Public Health Laboratory Service has led the DHSS to refer the whole problem back to the experts. Tony Ellam of…
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange 2: the clients by Gerry Stimson, Martin Donoghoe, Lindsay Alldritt and Kate Dolan
How far do syringe exchange scheme clients need to change to avoid the risk of HIV infection, and how difficult will it be to achieve these changes? By extension, the answers suggest the dimensions of the task facing Britain’s attempt to…
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange: the Liverpool experience by Janette Carr and Steve Dalton
Mersey’s regional drug training and information centre runs one of the busiest syringe exchange schemes in Britain. Soon after opening, staff found they had to make controversial decisions about how far to go in making the scheme attractive to injectors and…
Druglink article 1988 – Beyond ‘just say no’ by Ian Clements, Julian Cohen and Pat O’Hare
Drug education in schools seems to be up a blind alley – approaches aimed at preventing drug use are ineffective and those aimed at reducing harm are unacceptable. Meantime AIDS is pushing back the frontiers of acceptable responses to drug…
Druglink article 1988 – HIV top priority says official ACMD report
Government rejects call for more money to fight AIDS in drug users. This article also looks at what the ACMD report on Aids and Drug Misuse says and the government response to the report. HIV top priority says official ACMD…
Druglink article 1988 – Aids in the house by Stewart Dixon and Jane Hollis
Nowhere is the re-evaluation of drug services forced by HIV and AIDS more painful than in the traditional concept-based therapeutic communities, with their uncompromising philosophies and hierarchical regimes. But, as this report shows, far-reaching changes may be needed. Aids in…