An ongoing study among long term cannabis users paints a picture of reluctant skunk smokers whose often low-level addiction has had both good and bad impacts on their lives. Much of the academic research conducted thus far into cannabis use tends to focus on…
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The ENDS justifies the ends
You would think that a product with the potential to save a billion tobacco-related deaths this century without costing tax-payers a penny would be universally welcomed by governments and the global public health community. You’d be wrong. Startling revelations from…
Druglink article 2011 – K.O. by Joe Lepper
The number of young people using ketamine has doubled in four years. But for one Sussex girl who started taking the drug with her friends in the local park at 16, it ended with a near fatal addiction K.O. (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – The Ketamine zone by Max Daly and Peter Simonson
Ketamine is on the up again, tranquillisers are replacing low grade heroin, potent ecstasy pills are back and the artificial division between legal and illegal drugs is crumbling. Max Daly and Peter Simonson take a look at the results of this year’s UK-wide street drug trends…
Druglink news item 2011 – Is heroin over the hill? by Harry Shapiro
The number of young people taking up heroin has for the first time in decades begun to fall. Is this the end of an era and what has been the driving force behind it? Is heroin over the hill? (PDF)
Druglink news item – Prison’s opiate reduction regime ‘endangered lives’ by Max Daly
A prison’s attempt to reduce high levels of opiate prescribing resulted in an “unsafe” drug treatment regime which led to inmates being put on suicide watch and others at risk of overdose, a report by the prisons watchdog has revealed. The findings by HM Inspectorate of Prisons…
Druglink article 2011 – Under the shadow of the drug lords
The vibrant Mexican city of Monterrey is the country’s financial hub. But as with a growing number of cities in Mexico, it is ceding control to the narco-traffickers. Reporting from the city, one eyewitness describes the suffocating effect that crime linked to the drug…
Druglink article 2011 – A social contract by Richard Phillips
Treatment offers to get the dispossessed and addicted back into mainstream society, but for many this offer simply lacks credibility. Richard Phillips on how the recovery movement can offer people a tangible route out of addiction. A social contract (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – Word of mouth by Alistair Sinclair
An expanding network of current and former problem drug users will energise the recovery movement in the UK and create social entrepreneurs. Recently, in Drink and Drug News, I questioned whether we’d reached the point where we could reasonably claim there was a recovery movement…
Druglink article 2011 – Housing for recovery by Marcus Roberts
Findings from a survey on access to housing on behalf of the Recovery Partnership Nobody seriously questions the importance of housing for successful engagement with drug and alcohol treatment and for recovery. The Drug Strategy 2010 explains that housing, with appropriate support, contributes to engagement and retention…