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Druglink article 2007 – Mission impossible? by Max Daly
Despite the US mantra that destroying Afghanistan’s opium crop is key to defeating the Taliban, the evidence on the ground tells a different story. Max Daly talks to a serving British soldier about why, in the current climate, an all-out…
Druglink factsheet 2006 – Police powers and drugs 3
Courts and drug laws Police powers and drugs 3 (PDF)
Druglink article 2006 – Sherry aid by Mike Ashton
Problem heroin users have needle exchange and maintenance prescribing, yet there is no harm reduction equivalent in the UK for chronic alcohol users. Mike Ashton on a residential unit in Canada which uses doses of wine and sherry to bring…
Druglink article 2006 – The science of harm by Dr Russell Newcombe
In the last Druglink a Home Office analyst detailed the inner workings of the government’s Drug Harm Index. Here Dr Russell Newcombe explains why, as a method of measuring the damage drugs cause to society, the DHI is deeply flawed.…
Druglink article 2006 – In pursuit of pleasure by Gordon Morse
The sensation of pleasure was once a hard won reward. But, as Gordon Morse explains, drugs can provide bliss on tap for those escaping pain and dealing with fame. In pursuit of pleasure (PDF)
Druglink article 2006 – Poppycock: A fine romance? by Theodore Dalrymple and Peter McDermott
Withdrawing from heroin is far from the titanic struggle of misery portrayed by the treatment industry. In his controversial new book, Romancing Opiates, Theodore Dalrymple insists drug addiction is a condition largely invented by users and doctors and that treatment…
Druglink article 2006 – The waltz of addiction by John B Davies
The treatment industry is perpetuating addiction by colluding with drug users to cast them as helpless victims rather than people capable of taking charge of their lives. John B Davies on the downside to just going through the motions. The…
Druglink article 2006 – The opium odyssey by Diane Taylor
What happens to Afghanistan’s burgeoning poppy crop once it leaves the farmer’s gate and how long does it take to reach Europe? Diane Taylor pieces together the opium trail from the hands of the poppy farmers to the European gangsters.…
Druglink article 2006 – The Susurluk legacy by Adrian Gatton
Ten years ago, a horrific car accident grimly illuminated how Turkish state officials colluded with drug barons to traffic drugs into Europe and Britain. Adrian Gatton investigates how corrupton has smoothed the path of heroin from Afghanistan into UK The…