Why condom availability doesn’t lead to safer sex. Barriers to safer sex (PDF)
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Druglink handout 1992 – Drugs prevention news
This addition is the work of the Central Drugs Prevention unit (CDPU) which was set up within the Home Office to coordinate the community based Drugs Prevention Initiative. It intends to cover the subject of drugs prevention in a general…
Druglink article 1992 – Probation, harm reduction, and drug services by Marilyn Bild
This review of a three year project to establish good practice in a probation service explains the difficulty of implementing a harm reduction strategy in the face of services often unattractive to many users and unwilling to cooperate in achieving…
Druglink article 1992 – Rural HIV prevention by Jan Keene and Gerry Stimson
In rural Wales they’ve had to develop new ways of delivering HIV prevention services. HIV prevention is usually seen as a package of syringe dispersal, disposal, health care and help with drug problems, often based in drug agencies. This has worked well…
Druglink article 1992 – Drug user deaths up tenfold in Glasgow
‘Virtual unavailability’ of methadone blamed for the deaths in Scotland. Drug user deaths up tenfold in Glasgow (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – Grant frozen after ministers see ecstasy leaflet
A government grant to Mersey Drug Training and Information Centre has been withheld following a tabloid press storm over the ecstasy information in the centre’s Chill Out leaflet Grant frozen after ministers see ecstasy leaflet (PDF) Additional keywords: newspapers /…
Seminal Druglink articles
Media campaigns From the start the government’s heroin campaign was controversial – 1986 Don’t inject AIDS The government’s £5 million anti-AIDS media campaign – 1987 The fad that refuses to fade – Solvent misuse in Britain – 1990 ‘The last place I would go’…
Druglink article 1992 – A researcher reports from the rave by Russell Newcombe
Many thousands of young people take LSD, ecstasy and amphetamine while attending rave dance events. Use is usually occasional and unproblematic but dangers arise from the uncertain composition and strength of the drugs. A minority of ravers take drug cocktails…
Druglink article 1992 – Responding to recreational drug use by Peter McDermott, Alan Matthews and Andrew Bennett
Outreach interventions developed to reach injectors are inappropriate in noisy nightclubs whose customers are there for fun, not counselling. Drug information workers in Mersey instead devised a campaign drawing on the images, materials and distribution mechanisms associated with club culture…
Druglink article 1992 – A guide to working with schools by Robin Burgess
Requests for help from schools reacting to a drug-related incident can be an opportunity for drug agencies to establish constructive procedures that avoid stigmatising pupils but make help available to those who needs it. Involving all parties from the LEA…