At least five users in the north-west of England have died after ingesting PMA – sold as ecstasy pills. PMA implicated in ecstasy deaths (PDF)
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Druglink news item 2013 – Poppy daze by Harry Shapiro
Media interpretation of the implications of the current bumper opium crop in Afghanistan is flawed. Poppy daze (PDF)
Druglink obituary 2013 – Steve Abrams
Steve completed his psychology degree at his home town University of Chicago in 1957 and moved to the UK in 1960 to undertake a doctorate at Oxford University part-funded by the Human Ecology Fund. This turned out to be a CIA front organisation, itself secretly…
Druglink obituary 2013 – Geoffrey Pearson
Geoff Pearson was born in Manchester, and educated at Accrington Grammar School and Peterhouse College Cambridge and the LSE, and after working as a psychiatric social worker, Geoff before commencing his academic career. His first major publication “The Deviant Imagination” (1974), confronted and unpacked a wide…
Druglink article 2000 – Positive peer pressure: Youth counsel youth by Lis Heath and John Heath
The best people to talk to young people about drugs and / or alcohol could be other trained young people Positive peer pressure: Youth counsel youth (PDF)
Druglink article 2000 – Law-law not war-war: National laws and international obligations by Nicholas Dorn
Research for the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, discovered that within the big three international drugs conventions there is room for manoeuvre for national drug laws. We don’t all have to have the same laws or…
Druglink article 2000 – Misguided missiles: Drugs war in Colombia by Axel Klein
Britain supports the US war on drugs in Colombia and it may be that British firms are developing biological controls for coca Misguided missiles: Drugs war in Colombia (PDF)
Druglink article 2000 – Snowed under: Is it the real thing? by John Martin Corkery
If the UK suffered the cocaine epidemic which was reported in the 1990s the figures should reveal it. Snowed under: Is it the real thing? (PDF)
Druglink article 2000 – Regaining lost youth: youth workers success with drug users by John Bradshaw
The broad, comprehensive approach of Leeds City Council youth workers developed relationships with socially excluded young people that drug workers find difficult to establish. Regaining lost youth: youth workers success with drug users (PDF)
Druglinks from 2001
January / February 16(1) (PDF) March / April 16(2) (PDF) May / June 16(3) (PDF) July / August 16(4) (PDF) September / October 16(5) (PDF) November / December 16(6) (PDF)