Photos and words from the government’s £5 million anti-AIDS media campaign. Most ads appeared in youth specific media. Don’t inject AIDS (PDF)
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Druglink article from 1987 – ‘Overwhelmed’ needle exchange schemes close down
Pilot needle exchange schemes north of the border have run into serious problems. The three Dundee schemes have all closed while Glasgow’s scheme has been picketed by local residents. ‘Overwhelmed’ needle exchange schemes close down (PDF)
Druglink article from 1987 – Gloves off in anti-injecting campaign
Advertising agency TBWA achieve a triple entendre in this deliberately risque youth press ad, part of the new government commissioned joint anti-injecting anti-drug campaign. TBWA managing director Sammy Harari explained that market research showed if an ad is a bit…
Druglink article 1987 – Aids and drug workers by Paul Hendry
Facing death and talking in graphic detail about sexuality and sexual practices is hard for most of us – but that’s just what AIDS is forcing drug workers to do. Should they – can they – meet the challenge? Aids…
Druglink article 1987 – Maintenance or abstinence by Jackie Chang
Countering AIDS and curing addiction are different aims requiring radically different strategies. Half-hearted merger could doom both to failure. Maintenance or abstinence (PDF)
Druglink article 1987 – Look before you leap by Roy Robertson
Half the drug injectors at Roy Robertson’s practice in the early 1980s were HIV positive, showing Edinburgh to be one of Europe’s Aids black spots but he believes a panic policy shift back to prescribing is no way to counter…
Druglink article 1987 – The prescribing debate by John Strang
Until recently most doctors were moving quietly away from the long-term ‘maintenance’ prescribing of the ’60s, but disputes within the medical profession and the need to counter the spread of AIDS have brought the prescribing issue back on the policy…
Druglink article 1987 – Aids groups and drugs by Bill Nelles
Drug agencies are apprehensive and unsure about dealing with AIDS; Aids agencies are unsure how to deal with drug users. Bill Nelles, who has had a foot in both camps, believes cooperation is urgently required if drug users are not…
Druglink article 1987 – Minimisation of harm, a u-curve theory by Nicholas Dorn
U curves have a long and questionable history in addiction studies. They were traditionally used to illustrate the decline and reform of alcoholics and drug addicts. Nicholas Dorn steals the U-curve and applies it in an entirely new way, reaching…
Druglink article 1987 – Addicts can change by Richard Hartnoll, Emmanuelle Daviaud and Robert Power
Will people prepared to inject illegal drugs with secondhand needles be able to change now to reduce the risk of spreading AIDS to each other, and to the general popultion? Research in London (drug indicators Project) suggests there’s at least…