Parents devastated by heroin use in the family speak about which services helped most. Research among parents of heroin users found a high degree of shock and distress. Parents felt the probation service was most help as it included them in…
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The dominant narrative of the drugs war divides the conflict quite simply into ‘good guys and bad guys’ – murderous drug cartels on the one hand: police, customs and drug enforcement officers on the other. But there is a third…
Druglink article 1990 – The politics of anti-drug campaigns by Tim Rhodes
Government anti-drugs campaigns have attempted to address non-users as well as users. But images and messages that successfully deter non-users may simply have alienated drug users, making them less responsive to official sources of help and information. The latest campaign…
Druglink article 1990 – The funding crisis for rehabs by David Tomlinson
Community care funding arrangements coming into force next April will decrease the guaranteed per-resident payment to residential drug projects and leave the bulk of the funding at the discretion of local authorities which may need to assess each applicant. Local…
Druglink article 1990 – The limits of intervention by Geoffrey Pearson, Mark Gilman and Paul Traynor
How travel sickness tablets forced workers to face the fact that sometimes there’s little you can do. The limits of intervention (PDF) Additional keywords: Cyclizine / Diconal / Temgesic / Scotland
Druglink article 1990 – Ways to open the surgery door by Tom Waller
Why rejecting special payments for GPs may jeopardise our whole AIDS programme Expanding specialist services cannot fulfill the urgent need for greater medical involvement in drug treatment and HIV prevention. Mass participation by GPs can, but this means reversing the effects…
Druglink article 1990 – Dealing with the health market by Peter Mason
The NHS and community care reorganisations will create a health care market with many purchasers and providers. Market forces could further fragment services and force even popular agencies to close. To regulate the market both sides should establish consortia or…
Druglink article 1990 – Making research part of drugs work by Robert Power, Sara Jones, Annette Dale and Paul Turnbull
An example is given of close cooperation between researchers evaluating a drug team and the team itself. Regular, speedy feedback of research findings helped the team refine its objectives and methods. Research surveys and outreach studies doubled as publicity for…
Druglink article 1990 – New treatments for opiate dependence by Colin Brewer
For some opiate addicts the usual oral methadone regimes are inappropriate or ineffective. Alternative regimes are available. Injectable methadone ampoules can now be labelled to help prevent diversion. Long-acting substitutes for methadone and drugs that block the effects of opiates…
Druglink article 1990 – Nursing by rote by David Richards
Despite the rhetoric, is it still fit in or get out in Britain’s inpatient drug units? Nursing by rote (PDF)