The Interim report of a research project interviewing Asian men in Bradford and African-descent women in London concerning drug problems in their respective ethnic groups and their attitudes to and knowledge of local drug services. The vast majority of both…
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Druglink article 1990 – The fad that refuses to fade by Richard Ives
Surveys of solvent misuse in the UK in the 1980s confirm that, after cannabis, solvents are the most widely used substances. There has been no discernible drop in usage over the decade; typically 4 to 8 per cent of secondary…
Druglink article 1990 – Helping the sniffers by Richard Ives
Valid professional approaches to solvent misuse may range from doing nothing to in-depth individual counselling or family therapy and action in the local community or wider society. They are not mutually exclusive. Workers should carefully tailor their mix of responses…
Druglink article 1990 – Dangerous games: UK solvent deaths 1983 – 88 by John Ramsey, Kate Bloor and Ross Anderson
Evidence that solvents contribute to more deaths in the under 20s than any other drug. An ongoing study of UK deaths associated with the abuse of volatile substances (VSA) has used consistent recording methods since 1983. Over that period the…
Druglink article 1990 – Fair trial for justice proposals by Una Padel
Drug agency clients could benefit from government criminal justice proposals. Implementing the White Paper, Crime, Justice and Protecting the Public could prevent offenders being sentenced on their record and make courts justify imprisonment. These together with greater use of probation…
Druglink article 1990 – Probation service makes harm reduction official policy
Promotion of harm reduction approaches with drug using clients is now official policy of the Inner London Probation Service breaking through the ideological barrier against criminal justice officers being seen to collude with continued offending in the form of illegal…
Druglink article 1990 – Can local drug prevention ‘sizzle’ ? by Nicholas Dorn and Laura Gamble
The lessons of an innovative local drug prevention campaign. A drug prevention campaign in Brighton used local radio ads, a phonecard and other materials circulated through youth clubs to stimulate calls to an answering machine with a message on drugs.…
Druglink article 1990 – Illicit drugs and the world economy by the UN information service
Why a world economy that gives us cheap coffee also gives us cocaine. The rapid decline in raw commodity prices and accumulation of foreign debt in developing countries in the 1980s lies behind the escalating illicit drug production and trafficking…
Druglink article 1990 – Prohibition: the Chinese experience by Richard Newman
Imperial China’s drug war battled uphill against powerful traffickers and booming demand – with familiar results. Opium problems in nineteenth century China have been cited as illustrative of the evils of legalising drugs, but are more illustrative of the effects…
Druglink article 1990 – Prescribing heroin: does it work? by Martin Mitcheson and Richard Hartnoll
A study in 1972-76 randomly allocated heroin addicts seeking a heroin prescription into two groups, one prescribed injectable heroin, the other only oral methadone. Twelve months later many more of the heroin group were still in treatment but more were…