Max Daly investigates the growing market in drugs that claim to put you on top of the game. When hairdresser Claire Squires emptied a scoop of the now banned sports energy supplement Jack3d into her water bottle before running last year’s London Marathon, she had…
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Druglink article 2013 – Reality check
A snapshot survey of people in drug treatment provides the latest figures on topping-up, unemployment, crime, supervised doses and psychosocial support. But it also reveals that a lack of flexibility may inhibit successful recovery. Reality check (PDF)
Druglink interview 2013 – Baroness Molly Meacher by Harry Shapiro
Events worldwide prompted Baroness Meacher to try to move the drug law reform debate on in the UK. Interview – Baroness Molly Meacher (PDF)
Druglink news item 2013 – Foiled again by Max Daly
Government still dragging its feet over foil. On the 10th November 2010, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) submitted a detailed report to the Home Secretary Theresa May on the provision of foil as a harm reduction intervention for drug services. It recommended…
Druglink article 2000 – Supporting intervention: ethics in research by Jo Apply, David Pyle and Geoff Wootton
A study by the US Institute for Defense Analysis attempted to look at how intervention close to the source of cocaine influences availability, ignoring whether the threat of drugs justifies the sometimes extreme actions involved. Druglink asked three commentators for…
Druglink article 2000 – Traffic targets: supply strategies by Nicholas Dorn
The UK spends more on drug enforcement than on demand reduction while knowing little about effectiveness. Could better understanding and greater effectiveness in anti – trafficking take pressure off drug users. Traffic targets: supply strategies (PDF)
Druglink article 2000 – Local action: what can be done? by Corrine Chamberlain, Nicholas Dorn and Barrie Douglas
Drug supply is not just an international issue, it is the concern of police forces and other members of Drug Action Teams, but what should their priorities be? Local action: what can be done? (PDF)
Druglink article 2000 – Zero tolerance: misreading results by Travis Wendel
Zero tolerance policing in New York City has been a model for others, but its success appears to be coincidental to other social and economic factors Zero tolerance: misreading results (PDF)
Druglink article 2000 – Head counting: two polls of public opinion by Geoffrey Pearson and Michael Shiner
Two MORI polls of public attitudes to drugs show that the British view may not be what policymakers and researchers imagine Head counting: two polls of public opinion (PDF)
Druglink news item 2000 – New film guidelines – shoot out yes, shoot up, no
A survey of 3000 people conducted by the British Board of Film Classification revealed that even for films rated 18, cinema audiences were more offended by scenes of drug use than sex or violence. New film guidelines – shoot out…