Drug services have to be quick on their feet to keep up with a growing array of new substances being used by young people. Lena Corner visited one project which is managing to keep up to speed. The government’s ban on GBL, BZP…
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Druglink article 2010 – From the horse’s mouth by Andy McNicoll and Dr Celia Morgan
The first event of it’s kind in Britain, K-Day brought together users, drug workers and health experts to talk about ketamine – a drug sidelined by treatment services despite causing rising concerns. Andy McNicoll and Dr Celia Morgan on a day that could…
Druglink article 2010 – World wired web by Mike Power
The powerful legal stimulant, mephedrone, has opened the door to a seemingly unstoppable virtual drugs market. Mike Power, the first journalist to report on mephedrone in Druglink last March, tracks its journey from Chinese labs to Britain’s streets. In May 2004, on an…
Druglink article 2010 – Teenage kicks by Max Daly
How did the isolated County Durham village of Cockfield kick off a nationwide panic over legal highs? In the vast, thinly populated landscape that dominates the peaceful district of Teesdale in south west County Durham, lies the old mining village of Cockfield. It has a…
Druglink article 2010 – Chemical reaction by Marcus Roberts
With a growing market in highs such as ketamine, GBL, Spice and mephedrone and a trend towards young people mixing and matching drugs with alcohol, drug services are facing a different set of issues than they were at the turn of the millennium. Marcus Roberts introduces…
Druglink article 2010 – A dose of reality by Liz Hughes and Peter Phillips
Are prisons a methadone free-for-all where offenders are barred from actually getting clean? Liz Hughes and Peter Phillips say the reality is far removed from the picture painted by those guided by abstentionist beliefs. A dose of reality (PDF)
Druglink special edition 2010 – Cocaine dossier
In this special dossier, we bring together some of our key investigations and feature stories on cocaine, including the first reporting of a two-tier market in the drug and the spread of its use to blue collar workers. Our dossier…
Druglink factsheet 2011 – Ketamine
What it is, price, prevalence, effects and risks. Factsheet – Ketamine (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – The quiet revolution by Chris Ford
The way drug users are dealt with by GPs has transformed in the last three decades. Dr Chris Ford, who retired earlier this year from her post as one of Britain’s specialist drug misuse GPs, looks back at how things have changed in…
Druglink article 2011 – The opium cables by Adrian Gatton
How Druglink used Wikileaks to reveal the secret story of heroin’s journey from Afghanistan to the UK. Dispatch 09DUSHANBE569: Dushanbe, a pleasant enough neo-classical city in Tajikistan, bordering Afghanistan. A mobile phone number belonging to a man known as ‘The Doctor’. Further research reveals his real…