The booming e-cigarette trade has thrown down the gauntlet to the tobacco industry. Yet if the new, safer smokes are classed as a medicine, the battle could be over before it even begins. Vapor trials (PDF)
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Druglink article 2013 – The treatment matrix by Mike Ashton
A new, all-encompassing database gives practitioners and commissioners unprecedented power to pinpoint key areas of best practice in the drug and alcohol field. Since 1997 Drug and Alcohol Findings has made ‘what works’ research accessible and understandable to UK practitioners, so they can use it…
Druglink article 2013 – New age austerity highs by Steve Wakeman and Toby Seddon
In the 1980s heroin use rocketed alongside spiralling deprivation. So why, now we have returned to an era of austerity, is heroin use falling? New age austerity highs (PDF) Additional keywords: Prebagabalin
Druglink article 2013 – Ace in the hole by Harry Shapiro
The ground-breaking Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE ) study demonstrated a clear correlation between childhood trauma (including parental substance misuse) and later ill-health – not least addiction. Ace in the hole (PDF) Additional keywords: parents / children / treatment outcomes
Druglink article 2013 – A cracked myth by Maureen Black and Stacy Buckingham-Howes
New research suggests fears that a generation of ‘crack babies’ would become create havoc on America’s welfare and criminal justice systems have been greatly exaggerated. Researchers Maureen Black and Stacy Buckingham-Howes report on their latest research into prenatal cocaine exposure. A cracked myth…
Druglinks from 2000
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Druglink article 1999 – Where in the world? Drug information on the web by Amanda Norman and Harry Shapiro
Imagine a restaurant with a thousand different doors. The food you get depends entirely on which unsignposted door you enter by. This is what searching on the wold wide web is like. Where in the world? Drug information on the…
Druglink article 1999 – A stab in the dark: alcohol swabs as education tools by Julie Macrow
Why are sterets given to injecting drug users and how are they supposed to be used? A stab in the dark: alcohol swabs as education tool (PDF)
Druglink article 1999 – Why innovate? Funding services or innovation, not both by Harold S Williams and Peter Mason
It is possible for funders to buy innovation, but it requires a different approach than funding ongoing services. Why innovate? Funding services or innovation, not both (PDF)
Druglink article 1999 – Touchy subject, explosive matter: volatile substance abuse by Keith Owen
Solvent abuse kills more young people than ecstasy, the law tries to restrict supply but what about service provision? Touchy subject, explosive matter: volatile substance abuse (PDF)