What the political parties said about drugs Election 87 (PDF)
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Druglink article 1987 – Reducing harm can hurt by Chris Roworth
Youth workers responsible for a party of young people abroad sight two of them smoking cannabis – should they ‘get heavy’ and risk ruining the trip, or play it cool and risk losing their jobs? What happened next ed an…
Druglink article 1987 – Dilemmas in youth work by Nicholas Dorn and Christine James
Drug use by young people is most often encountered outside rather than inside schools, where it is the youth work side of the education service that has to directly confront the difficult legal and control issues involved. Dilemmas in youth…
Druglink article 1987 – State rationed drugs by John Marks
John Marks’s acceptance of a role as purveyor of state-rationed opiates on a ‘maintenance’ basis to addicts determined to continue their addiction, contrasts sharply with anti-maintenance treatment trends elsewhere but he maintains better a live maintained addict than a dead…
Druglink article 1987 – Look before you leap by Roy Robertson
Half the drug injectors at Roy Robertson’s practice in the early 1980s were HIV positive, showing Edinburgh to be one of Europe’s Aids black spots but he believes a panic policy shift back to prescribing is no way to counter…
Druglink article 1987 – The prescribing debate by John Strang
Until recently most doctors were moving quietly away from the long-term ‘maintenance’ prescribing of the ’60s, but disputes within the medical profession and the need to counter the spread of AIDS have brought the prescribing issue back on the policy…
Druglink article 1987 – Preparing for the birth by Patricia Kearney
At a London hospital, obstetric and dependence teams have cooperated to offer a non-threatening ‘package deal’ to pregnant drug users. Preparing for the birth (PDF) Pregnancy
Druglink article 1987 – The pregnant addict by Annas Dixon
Pregnancy in a drug taker puts at least three people at risk: the baby, the mother – and the social worker, at risk of personal distress and public infamy if leaving the child with the mother goes wrong; at risk…
Druglink article 1987 – Aids groups and drugs by Bill Nelles
Drug agencies are apprehensive and unsure about dealing with AIDS; Aids agencies are unsure how to deal with drug users. Bill Nelles, who has had a foot in both camps, believes cooperation is urgently required if drug users are not…
Druglink article 1987 – Drugs and rock by Harry Shapiro
Politicians say they should set an example, but are rock and pop stars good, bad or indifferent in their influence on drug taking? Harry Shapiro surveys the myths and the facts and asks – Who gains from associating popular music…