Home Office statistics suggest the late 1980’s may be a turning point for both heroin and cocaine use in the UK, though there are fears the drop in heroin statistics may be a temporary lull as hard-hit traffickers re-group. Cocaine…
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Druglink article 1988 – Counselling and drugs counselling by Roger Duncan
Experienced drug worker Roger Duncan says counselling techniques can get in the way of the real business of street agency drugs work – forming a person to person relationship with the client. Counselling and drugs counselling (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Further beyond just say no
Three drug education coordinators from the North West pointed their personal way to ‘Beyond just say no’ Their aim was to start a debate over the future of drug education…They may have got more debate than they bargained for… Further…
Druglink article 1988 – Groups for HIV positive drug users by Bill Nelles
Some drug users at risk of or with HIV/AIDS have been doubly let down: first by drug services; second by the gay self-help groups they turned to when the services failed to respond. Now groups are being formed by and…
Druglink article 1988 – Why not work in prison? by Mike Trace
Last year an important Home Office policy statement helped open the way for drug services to work in prisons. Just one agency in Britain specialises in this work. Its coordinator argues that prison or the threat of prison creates intervention…
Druglink article 1988 – Wraps against AIDS by Andrew Fraser
How can you bring the anti-AIDS message before drug users each time they take drugs? Brighton’s Drug Advice and Information Service found a novel solution. Wraps against AIDS (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe hygiene by Anthony Ellam
‘Bleach out, boiling in’ was Druglink’s summary of the DHSS’s latest advice on syringe hygiene. Now new work at the Public Health Laboratory Service has led the DHSS to refer the whole problem back to the experts. Tony Ellam of…
Druglink article 1988 – Taking care of business by Edward Preble and John Casey
In 1969 Preble and Casey’s classic account of the illicit heroin economy in New York broke through prevailing images of the addict as a passive loser to portray the ghetto user / hustler as an active achiever. At the time…
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange 2: the clients by Gerry Stimson, Martin Donoghoe, Lindsay Alldritt and Kate Dolan
How far do syringe exchange scheme clients need to change to avoid the risk of HIV infection, and how difficult will it be to achieve these changes? By extension, the answers suggest the dimensions of the task facing Britain’s attempt to…
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange: the Liverpool experience by Janette Carr and Steve Dalton
Mersey’s regional drug training and information centre runs one of the busiest syringe exchange schemes in Britain. Soon after opening, staff found they had to make controversial decisions about how far to go in making the scheme attractive to injectors and…