This is the second fact sheet dealing with the effects of illegal drugs on women’s health. This part deals with pregnancy and gives a drug by drug account of what is known. Drugs and you part 2 (PDF) Additional keywords:…
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Druglink article 1994 – Buzzwords: an HIV outreach glossary by Tim Rhodes and Gerry Stimson
Outreach has a long and varied history in health promotion and other community interventions. Some of the key concepts from those spheres are only now being incorporated into the language of HIV outreach in the UK. Central to these developments…
Druglink article 1993 – Crew 2000 Peer coalition in action by Peter McDermott and Willie McBride
In Edinburgh, drug users and local young people together with drug workers have formed a coalition to inform their peers about drugs and have focused initially on the local club scene. Their experience of the use of Temazepam by club…
Druglink article 1993 – Keep your bra and burn your brain by Sheila Henderson
Research involving in-depth interviews with young women using drugs in the club scene who do not attend drug services suggests it would be counterproductive and inaccurate to apply unmodified feminist analyses of the ’60s and ’70s to their lives or…
Druglink article 1993 – Discordant defence by Alison Chesney
Poor coordination and lack of funding is leaving rehabs at the mercy of the market Discordant defence (PDF)
Druglink factsheet 1993 – Drugs and You (for females) part one
Drug information for women including drugs and the monthly cycle and contraceptives and drug use. Drugs and You (PDF) Additional keywords: contraception
Druglinks from 1994
January / February 9(1) (PDF) March / April 9(2) (PDF) May / June 9(3) (PDF) July / August 9(4) (PDF) September / October 9(5) (PDF) November / December 9(6) (PDF)
Druglink article 1993 – Back to the future by Mark Gilman
If today’s rave generation turns to heroin, how should services respond? Back to the future (PDF)
Druglink article 1993 – Time for a make-over by Sheila Hendersen
The current logjam in thinking about gender related issues in the drugs field is characterised by a failure to address the positive aspects of young women’s drug use and to appreciate the more equal role of females in the dance drugs scene.…
Druglink article 1993 – The welfare economics of law reform by Andrew Clark
An economist weighs up the pros and cons of legalisation. The welfare impact of legalising prohibited drugs would be a combination of the impact on the enjoyment of drug use, harm from drugs and from the illegal market, drug-related crime,…