The Terrence Higgins Trust suffered a major blow to its credibility as an across the board AIDS agency when leading drugs advisers resigned. Drug advisers quit key AIDS charity (PDF)
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Druglink article 1989 – Being researched by Robert Power
Guidelines on the mutual etiquette of the relationship between researcher and drug agency. Like good manners everywhere, the aim is to avoid conflict getting in the way of communication. Being researched (PDF) Additional keywords: interviewing / research / evaluation
Druglink article 1989 – Crime and compulsory treatment by Bruce Johnson
Interviewed recently for Druglink, one of America’s most respected authorities on the workings of the drug market says the division between treating drug dependence and punishing offences has to end. In Britain too, the trend is towards treating rather than…
Druglink article 1989 – Coping with AIDS by Mike Ashton
AIDS and Drugs Misuse part 2 completes the Advisory Council’s review of how HIV is transforming the response to drug misuse in Britain. It is essential reading for anyone who is or might be working with HIV infected drug users.…
Druglink article 1989 – MDMA in perspective – The speed trip by Harry Shapiro
1988 was the summer of louts and love. The louts drank lager; fun and love came in tablets of MDMA – Ecstasy. Reality and fantasy mixed in a crescendo of press reports about MDMA and Acid house music. Feet on…
Druglink article 1989 – A low threshold methadone programme by Philip Fleming
Flexible, accessible, attractive – that’s what government and their advisers say addiction clinics should be to counter HIV. At Northern Road they’ve thrown out the waiting lists and detoxification timetables and let the clients set the goals. A low threshold…
Druglink article 1989 – Coordinate…Campaign by Robin Burgess, Ian Wardle and Colin Cripps
Two views of the priorities for drug agencies once they stop working with clients and start addressing the community Coordinate…Campaign (PDF)
Druglink article 1989 – Why most of Britain’s drug users are not looking for help by Richard Hartnoll and Robert Power
The most wide-ranging market research study of potential drug agency customers yet done in Britain helps answer the question of why some people in drug trouble seek help whilst others stay away from services. Why most of Britain’s drug users…
Druglink article 1989 – £17 million for drug services in 1989/90
Allocations for the financial year 1989/90 will give health authorities at least £17 million to be spent on drug services – at least double that of last year. £17 million for drug services in 1989/90 (PDF) Additional keywords: government spending…
Druglink article 1989 – Rolleston: The defence of the right to prescribe by Mike Ashton
In British drug history no document has more claim to the term ‘classic’ than the 1926 report of the Rolleston committee. Under pressure from the Home Office the eminent physicians on the committee claimed their right to prescribe – even…