Druglink article 1998 – Onion rings to go: social exclusion and addiction by Mark Gilman

A couple of years ago, it was a term used only by European bureaucrats and sociologists. But with the formation of its very own unit within government, the imminent publication of the ACMD’s report on drugs and the environment and the new strategy’s explicit message that drugs and poverty are linked, the concept of social exclusion has finally come of age.