The suggestion that lower level drug dealers could avoid jail and that 50 bags of heroin is ‘very small’ has been met with predictable media outrage. Andy McNicoll reports on the ongoing, super-sensitive debate around drug thresholds. Thinking outside the bag (PDF)
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Druglink news item 2011 – ‘White cider more deadly than heroin’ says homeless charity boss
White cider and other super-strength drinks are killing more homeless people than heroin and crack, according to the director of a charity. “Super-strength drinks are a breed apart. The cheap and strong white ciders are a problem drink which have devastated and cut short the lives of…
Druglink article 2003 – Two cheers for progress by Peter McDermott
Within the treatment sector you still have people who believe that everyone who has a drug problem is scum. Two cheers for progress (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – Models of care: is there a GP in the plan?
Despite recent initiatives to increase the involvement of GPs in the treatment of drug users Chris Ford and Jenny Keen argue that Models of Care ignores all this, writes doctors out of the script and so, is fatally flawed. Models…
Druglink article 2003 – Whose community is it anyway? by Dan McIntyre
Everybody these days wants to engage with ‘the community’ to encourage bottom up rather than top down responses to a range of social issues including drugs. But what, asks Dan McIntyre is the ‘community’ ? Whose community is it anyway?…
Druglink article 2003 – Small is beautiful and Scottish by Justine Walker
Previously we have reported on the tensions within the sprawling bureaucracies which make up the drugs ‘industry’ in England. But in Scotland, writes Justine Walker, size has been one of the key ingredients for creating successful partnerships between Scottish Executive…
Druglink article 2003 – More than skin deep by Lena Corner
When Ben Ashmore decided surgery was he only way left to kick a heroin problem, he recorded his experiences in a weekly diary. Lena Corner was given exclusive access to the ups and downs of life with a naltrexone implant.…
Druglink article 2003 – Anti-drug vaccines: the end of high society? by Stuart Walton
Cocaine and tobacco vaccines are likely to become useful weapons in the battle against addiction. But could this breakthrough herald a future in which humans are denied their right to become intoxicated? Stuart Walton looks at the ethical problems of…
Druglink news item 2003 – The politics of rEsearch by Harry Shapiro
The credibility of research into the long-term effects of ecstasy and its interpretation for public consumption has been seriously undermined by revealtions from America. The politics of rEsearch (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – Locking up our daughters by Max Daly
Sarah Campbell, a teenager with a history of heroin use, clinical depression and a victim of child sex abuse, died in the last place she should have been – jail. To mark the launch of our Using Women campaign, Max…