Bolton Drug Misusing Offenders Project incorporates drug specialists with the probation service and co-operates with other local agencies. It has been estimated that, in 1992, drug driven acquisitive crime cost victims £58-864 million. Care not custody: co-ordinated compulsion (PDF) Additional…
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Druglink article 2000 – Hard Labour: Blair warfare by Gerry Stimson
New Labour’s law, order and cpntrol agenda is cutting a swathe through public sector working practices. the drugs field is not immune Hard Labour: Blair warfare (PDF) Additional keywords: compulsory treatment
Druglink article 2014 – The Futures Market by Marcus Roberts
Crime, heroin and poverty underpinned the growth of the sector. But with change happening at every turn, Marcus Roberts takes stock. A new Home Office research report by Nick Morgan considers The heroin epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s and its effect upon crime trends…
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…
Druglink article 1997 – Making sense of intelligence by Nicholas Dorn
Responding to Men in Black, ISDD’s Nicholas Dorn says that integrating the voices of the intelligence agencies into the formation of a UK drug strategy will be a challenge and an opportunity for the new Drug Czar. Making sense of…
Druglink article 1997 – Men in black by Gerry Rice and Terry Thomas
Britain’s intelligence services are now involved in the ‘war on drugs’ to an unprecedented degree. This has led to tensions with the police and the National Criminal Intelligence Service, despite the partnership which the 1996 Security Service Act formalised. Behind…
Druglink article 1994 – The cost of heroin-related crime by Oswin Baker
New light on the key issue in the political debate over drug policy. The cost of heroin-related crime (PDF)
Druglink article 1990 – Prescribing heroin: does it work? by Martin Mitcheson and Richard Hartnoll
A study in 1972-76 randomly allocated heroin addicts seeking a heroin prescription into two groups, one prescribed injectable heroin, the other only oral methadone. Twelve months later many more of the heroin group were still in treatment but more were…
Druglink article 1989 – Crime and compulsory treatment by Bruce Johnson
Interviewed recently for Druglink, one of America’s most respected authorities on the workings of the drug market says the division between treating drug dependence and punishing offences has to end. In Britain too, the trend is towards treating rather than…
Druglink article 1988 – Taking care of business by Edward Preble and John Casey
In 1969 Preble and Casey’s classic account of the illicit heroin economy in New York broke through prevailing images of the addict as a passive loser to portray the ghetto user / hustler as an active achiever. At the time…