In the interests of personal health, drug users have been more than ready to accept clean injecting equipment from drug agencies, and also talk in explicit details about injecting techniques. But trying to get them to talk about safe sex…
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Druglink article 1999 – Getting the point across: a cheap, effective, brief intervention to reduce injecting by Neil Hunt, Garry Stillwell and Paul Griffiths
Since the 1980s, targeted interventions with injecting drug users have largely involved secondary prevention strategies intended to reduce the risk of HIV and make injecting less harmful, rather than primary prevention work that reduces the numbers transitioning to injecting. The…
Druglink article 1999 – Life in the slow lane: are we serious about services for stimulant users? by Tim Bottomley
It is perhaps not surprising given client demand and government policy, that most statutory drug services still carry caseloads weighted heavily towards opiate users offering little else other than needle exchange for stimulant users. Any other from of intervention has…
Druglink interview 1999 – Mike Trace urges drug field to think ahead by Harry Shapiro
In an exclusive interview Mike Trace, the UK deputy anti-drugs coordinator has expressed his concerns that the drug field is not geared up for the expansion promised by the extra money coming from the Comprehensive Spending Review Mike Trace urges…
Druglink article 2014 – Buy one, get one free by Sara McGrail
In this second part of her two-part feature on commissioning, Sara McGrail offers a personal view on the growing supermarket model of service provision and how changes in commissioning have impacted on service users in England. Buy one, get one free (PDF)
Druglink article 1999 – Education, education, education: the development of a specialised learning centre for drug users by Shelley Alge and Rita Kemp
The Government has announced that learning is at the heart of its welfare reform programme and a key element in tackling social exclusion. So where do people with drug problems fit in and how can their needs be resourced within…
Druglink article 1999 – Nature or nuture: doctors with attitude by Ira Unell, Douglas Cameron and MM Christie
You don’t have to be in the drug field long before you come across a doctor who seems less than sympathetic to drug-using patients. Indeed, most GPs refuse to have anything to do with ‘those damn junkies’. But as the…
Druglink article 1999 – Family values: rethinking children’s needs living with drug-using parents by Tom Aldridge
Assessing whether or not the children of drug-using parents are at risk of neglect or abuse is more than just waiting for a chaotic parent to have an acute episode and then trying to deal with it. Tom Aldridge argues…
Druglink Findings summary 2014 – What do patients want? by Mike Ashton and David Ader
Mike Ashton and David Ader of Drug and Alcohol Findings on the importance of patients’ wishes, and the difficulties inherent in discovering what those are. Findings: What do patients want? (PDF)
Druglink article 2014 – Nice of you to notice: Image and performance enhancing drugs by Joseph Kean and Jim McVeigh
A significant official under-reporting of steroid use is just one of the challenges facing those workers trying to assist many hidden groups of IPED users. For anyone who trains in a gym and has been brave enough to venture into the free weights area…