Caroline Flint, the Home Office minister with the drug portfolio, comes to the job with a background interest and involvement with children and young people. Woman of substance (PDF)
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Druglinks from 2004
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Druglink article 2011 – Peace pipes by Keith Humphreys
When Dr. Alan Leshner was Director of the US National Institute of Drug Abuse, he used to say that “when those of us in the treatment field feel threatened, we circle the wagons and then fire our guns inward”. Whether or not the UK recovery movement…
Druglink article 2011 – Drugworld diaries by Tim Sampey
It’s a busy week for me in February. Kensington and Chelsea’s service user group has been commissioned to design and run a borough-wide peer mentoring service, and today we began our inhouse training. We have interviewed and selected nine peer mentors from the volunteers who work in…
Druglink article 2011 – Kabul’s heroin injectors by Max Daly and Sandra Calligaro
A Paris-based human aid organisation is aiming to expand its drop-in centres by building a carpet factory, while Kabul’s injecting underclass are left to squat in the city’s underbelly. Opium amounts to half of Afghanistan’s GDP, employs 12 per cent of its citizens…
Druglink article 2011 – Crystal crescent by Matthew C. DuPée
Matthew C. DuPée on the spread of the methamphetamine trade in south west Asia. As the 21st century unfolds, Afghanistan finds itself in a profound socio-economic crisis. It is one in which the illegal drug trade and insurgency plays a very complex and important role. According…
Druglink article 2011 – Local zeroes by Sara McGrail
The government is ambitious for solving the problems they see inherent in delivering public services. But could local disinvestment leave drug services struggling to cope? In the first of two articles assessing impact of these changes on the sector, Sara McGrail looks at…
Druglink article 2011 – Born in the USA by Cindy Fazey
Fifty years ago an international treaty consolidated global anti-drug laws and set the framework for the future of drug prohibition. Cindy Fazey charts the development and impact of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Born in the USA (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – Skirmish in Suffolk
In November last year it was announced that Iceni, a long-running frontline drug service which gained nationwide recognition in the wake the murder of five Ipswich sex workers, would have its funding cut. Suffolk Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) opted to end Iceni’s contract following a tendering…
Druglink article 2011 – House on the hill: Victorian style by Virginia Berridge
Where were Victorians with drink or drug addictions sent to get help? Were they treated or punished? Virginia Berridge takes a look at rehab in the 19th century House on the hill: Victorian style (PDF)