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Druglink news item 1997 -Mad cow link to chasing the dragon
The worrying and puzzling link between heroin smoking and mad cow disease has resurfaced with a number of reported cases. Mad cow link to chasing the dragon (PDF)
Druglink article 1997 – Risking our sanity by Ira Unell
Mentally ill drug users are among the worst-serviced groups in the community, with both mental health and drug services often refusing to acknowledge their existence. This creates a huge scope for misdiagnosis. Unless services can recognise and respond appropriately to…
Druglink article 1997 – Making sense of intelligence by Nicholas Dorn
Responding to Men in Black, ISDD’s Nicholas Dorn says that integrating the voices of the intelligence agencies into the formation of a UK drug strategy will be a challenge and an opportunity for the new Drug Czar. Making sense of…
Druglink article 1997 – Men in black by Gerry Rice and Terry Thomas
Britain’s intelligence services are now involved in the ‘war on drugs’ to an unprecedented degree. This has led to tensions with the police and the National Criminal Intelligence Service, despite the partnership which the 1996 Security Service Act formalised. Behind…
Druglink article 1997 – Northern Ireland: the story so far by Rob Phipps
The political and peace processes of the last few years in Northern Ireland have seen a strengthening of resolve to tackle the province’s growing drug problem. Earlier this year, the RUC made Northern Ireland’s first crack seizure, and in the…
Druglink article 1997 – A shattered peace: heroin, market forces and the war in Yugoslavia by Roger Lewis
With the first convicted war criminal in Europe for fifty years now behind bars, it is time to review the impact that the Yugoslav war has had on the infamous ‘Balkan route’. Did the war smother the heroin trade, or…
Druglink article 1997 – Drugs, demons and blue suede shoes by Harry Shapiro
Recent comments by Chief Constable Keith Hellawell raise once again the issue of pop stars exerting a baleful influence on the behaviours of young people. Drugs, demons and blue suede shoes (PDF)
Druglink article 1997 – William Burroughs 1914 – 1997 by Gary Sutton
Obituary for the renowned author of a number of seminal works on addiction including Junky (1953) and The Naked Lunch (1959) William Burroughs 1914 – 1997 (PDF)
Druglink article 1997 – What’s so special about drug education anyway? by Julian Cohen
In the last Druglink Colin Cripps made an impassioned plea for the clued up drug education worker. here, another of Britain’s leading drug educationalists takes issue with the peer led approach and approaches a middle way, negotiating the tricky pathway…