Two major LSD factories were operating in the UK supplying a worldwide market under the noses of the police, until a DI from Thames Valley drug squad became curious. What happened next helped revolutionised the policing of drugs. Operation Julie:…
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Druglink article 2004 – Gimme Shelter: Winter comfort five years on by Kevin Flemen
The jailing of Ruth Wyner and John Brook in 1999 under section 8 of the Misuse of Drugs Act failing to take ‘reasonable steps’ to prevent heroin dealing at heir drop-in centre sent shivers down the spines of drug workers…
Druglink article 2004 – Children of a lesser God by Gibby Zobel
Behind the carnival image of Rio de Janeiro lurks one of the most deadly drug markets on the planet. Gibby Zobel reports from Rio on a trigger happy street drug scene which has claimed the lives of 4,000 children in…
Druglink article 2010 – Derry’s drug vigilantes by Max Daly
Ray Coyle was gunned down as he chatted to customers at his city centre shop in Derry. His crime? Selling legal highs. Max Daly reports on how dissident Republican groups are using the region’s historical distrust of drug dealers to drum up support in Northern Ireland’s…
Druglink article 2011 – Under the shadow of the drug lords
The vibrant Mexican city of Monterrey is the country’s financial hub. But as with a growing number of cities in Mexico, it is ceding control to the narco-traffickers. Reporting from the city, one eyewitness describes the suffocating effect that crime linked to the drug…
Druglink news item 2011 – New disorder by Camila Batmanghelidjh and Gavin Knight
The riots in London and other UK cities over a week in August stunned the country. Amid the talk of feral youths and a nation in moral decline, drug issues have been cited to become a key factor in the cause of…
Druglink news item 2011 – Thinking outside the bag by Andy McNicoll
The suggestion that lower level drug dealers could avoid jail and that 50 bags of heroin is ‘very small’ has been met with predictable media outrage. Andy McNicoll reports on the ongoing, super-sensitive debate around drug thresholds. Thinking outside the bag (PDF)
Druglink article 2000 – Traffic targets: supply strategies by Nicholas Dorn
The UK spends more on drug enforcement than on demand reduction while knowing little about effectiveness. Could better understanding and greater effectiveness in anti – trafficking take pressure off drug users. Traffic targets: supply strategies (PDF)
Druglink article 2014 – Higher education by Max Daly
The public perception of the drug dealer is either a seedy street corner ne’er do well or a bling-laden ‘kingpin’. But Max Daly sheds light on a different world of dealing. A university campus is a drug dealer’s dream. Thousands of young people…
Druglink article 2014 – 2009: New psychoactive substances – Mephedrone: the future of drug dealing by Mike Power
Every so often the drug scene goes through paradigm shifts. Usually these are heralded by the arrival of a new drug or a new version of an established drug. So in the 1980s, it was smokeable heroin and cocaine, while…