With up to 20,000 drug misusers imprisoned each year, there is reason to believe that sexual and injection-related HIV spread in British prisons is a serious problem. However, the authorities face strong staff resistance and severe resource problems in providing…
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Druglink article 1989 – What we need is an AIDS leaflet! by Paul Atkins
Customers at Britain’s drug services are being showered with printed information on the virus. Does the quality match the volume? What we need is an AIDS leaflet! (PDF)
Druglink article 1989 – Drug advisers quit key AIDS charity
The Terrence Higgins Trust suffered a major blow to its credibility as an across the board AIDS agency when leading drugs advisers resigned. Drug advisers quit key AIDS charity (PDF)
Druglink article 1989 – Coping with AIDS by Mike Ashton
AIDS and Drugs Misuse part 2 completes the Advisory Council’s review of how HIV is transforming the response to drug misuse in Britain. It is essential reading for anyone who is or might be working with HIV infected drug users.…
Druglink article 1989 – A low threshold methadone programme by Philip Fleming
Flexible, accessible, attractive – that’s what government and their advisers say addiction clinics should be to counter HIV. At Northern Road they’ve thrown out the waiting lists and detoxification timetables and let the clients set the goals. A low threshold…
Druglink article 1989 – £17 million for drug services in 1989/90
Allocations for the financial year 1989/90 will give health authorities at least £17 million to be spent on drug services – at least double that of last year. £17 million for drug services in 1989/90 (PDF) Additional keywords: government spending…
Druglink article 1989 – Rolleston: The defence of the right to prescribe by Mike Ashton
In British drug history no document has more claim to the term ‘classic’ than the 1926 report of the Rolleston committee. Under pressure from the Home Office the eminent physicians on the committee claimed their right to prescribe – even…
Druglink article 1989 – Syringe exchange 3, Can injectors change? by Gerry Stimson, Kate Dolan, Martin Donoghoe, Lindsey Alldritt and Rachel Lart
In this last of three reports the Monitoring Research Group fills in the bottom line of its study of the Government’s 15 pilot needle exchange schemes. This issue is whether the scheme’s clients reduced their risk of HIV infection by…
Druglink article 1989 – Cost-effectiveness is not a dirty word by James Les Kay
A ‘very modest proposal’ says the author. Others may see it as an unholy descent from saving lives to saving money. Welfare benefit gained per £ spent is the issue. Outreach work is the example. Cost-effectiveness is not a dirty word…
Druglink article 1989 – New drug ads focus on sharing
Ad agency Yellowhammer’s graphic approach is deprecated by health educators but backed by government ministers New drug ads focus on sharing (PDF)