For any drug to work properly the dose has to be high enough. Invariably this will differ from patient to patient. With methadone, argues Colin Brewer, the dose could be as high 1100mg a day. Methadone: the drugs do work…
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Druglink article 2003 – Blacklisted: race, drugs and crime by Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
Latest Home Office figures reveal that the percentage of black people jailed for drug offences has soared from 18% of the total in 1998 to 30% in 2002. Blacklisted: race, drugs and crime (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – Urine the money: voucher-based incentive scheme for drug treatment by Stephen Higgins and Sarah Heil
Clean urine gets you points – and points mean prizes. Stephen Higgins and Sarah Heil describe an innovative approach to improving treatment outcomes. Urine the money: voucher-based incentive scheme for drug treatment (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – More than a pipe dream – reducing crack’s harm by Mat Southwell
As crack comes in from the margins, its reputation as a demon drug grows. Even some staunch harm reductionists believe the grip of this drug is so pernicious that the only strategy is abstinence. More than a pipe dream –…
Druglink article 2003 – Reducing the harm caused by… drug service managers by Lyn Matthews
If staff are badly treated by service managers, says Lyn Matthews, what hope is there for service users? Reducing the harm caused by… drug service managers (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – Bar room brawl by Phil Mellows
Alcohol is a drug. It’s obvious, but it needs to be said. It’s a controversial statement. The drinks industry, of course, silently resists the definition because it fears for its privileged legal status.But it’s also a dangerous notion for the government, the state. If alcohol…
Druglink factsheet 2011 – Alcohol
Prevalence of use, effects, treatment and detox. Factsheet- alcohol (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – Reality TV by Liz Blackender
Outreach worker Liz Blackender on how the offer of a pair of new trainers and a flash TV eventually persuaded Martin, a long-term heroin and alcohol user, to relinquish his life on the streets and get off drugs. Reality TV (PDF) Additional keywords: incentives
Druglink interview 2011 – Party politics by Harry Shapiro
Maryon Stewart could never have foreseen she would become embroiled in the future of British drug policy. And neither would she have chosen it. One Sunday lunchtime, in April 2009, she received a knock on the door. A police officer told her that her 21-year old daughter, Hester, had died…
Druglink article 2011 – The acid house by Peter Simonson
In the first of a two part look at Britain as a producer of illegal drugs, Peter Simonson revisits the 1970s, when a remote Welsh mansion was home to the world’s biggest LSD factory. The acid house (PDF)