Building on an existing outreach initiative, the Wirral Drugs Service developed an HIV peer education project among drug using women working as prostitutes. Education/training sessions were followed by a residential weekend. An assessment suggested the project successfully engaged the women…
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Druglink article 1994 – AIDS and drug policy: Revolution or revision by Virginia Berridge
The growth of concern over drug-related HIV spread in the mid-80s served to lend political acceptability to and extend pre-existing policy trends towards harm reduction approaches and away from seeing addiction as a medical disease. Paradoxically this public health concern…
Druglink article 1994 – Buzzwords: an HIV outreach glossary by Tim Rhodes and Gerry Stimson
Outreach has a long and varied history in health promotion and other community interventions. Some of the key concepts from those spheres are only now being incorporated into the language of HIV outreach in the UK. Central to these developments…
Druglink article 1993 – Second class citizens by Russell Newcombe
Being recorded by a doctor as a drug user, convicted of a drug offence, or known to use drugs illegally, can have repercussions on a drug user’s eligibility for a variety of jobs; licence to drive; custody of children; tenancy in…
Druglink article 1993 – Working with HIV illness by Patrick Coyne and Gul Dhanani
A London drug dependency unit where a fifth of the clients were known to be HIV positive emphasises that these clients should have access to the full range of treatment opportunities available to other clients. Experience is that among clients…
Druglink article 1992 – The drug war – signs of a tactical retreat? by Peter Mason
Crime prevention initiatives are leading a tentative retreat from the War on Drugs. The drug war – signs of a tactical retreat? (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – No more junkie heroes? by Mark Gilman
Keeping opiate users in a therapeutic cul-de-sac may be a price worth paying. No more junkie heroes? (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – Probation, harm reduction, and drug services by Marilyn Bild
This review of a three year project to establish good practice in a probation service explains the difficulty of implementing a harm reduction strategy in the face of services often unattractive to many users and unwilling to cooperate in achieving…
Druglink article 1992 – Rural HIV prevention by Jan Keene and Gerry Stimson
In rural Wales they’ve had to develop new ways of delivering HIV prevention services. HIV prevention is usually seen as a package of syringe dispersal, disposal, health care and help with drug problems, often based in drug agencies. This has worked well…
Druglink article 1992 – Drug user deaths up tenfold in Glasgow
‘Virtual unavailability’ of methadone blamed for the deaths in Scotland. Drug user deaths up tenfold in Glasgow (PDF)