Why drug workers should empower drug users into their jobs. Services run by users for users can probably do the job better than existing services. User friendly (PDF)
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Druglink article 1992 – ‘Nightmare scenario’ for rehabs next April
Wholesale closures predicted as DoH ‘reneges’ on grant ‘Nightmare scenario’ for rehabs next April (PDF) Additional keywords: funding
Druglink article 1992 – Adjusting to steroid users by Harry Shapiro
Steroid users are increasingly turning to needle exchanges for injecting equipment, advice and health checks, particularly in areas with a large bodybuilding population. Exchanges have had to adjust to this new client group in terms of information provision and delivery.…
Druglink article 1992 – A well-steroid user clinic by Kathryn Williamson, Meurig Davies and Andrew McBride
A drug team’s experience of running a specialist needle exchange scheme for steroid users. A well-steroid user clinic (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – A strategic approach to the Criminal Justice Act by Jane Goodsir
Drug services have the power to influence court decisions and sentencing policy A strategic approach to the Criminal Justice (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – Mixing tranx and street drugs by Philip Fleming
Benzodiazepine dependants need help – but should drug agencies be helpers? Mixing tranx and street drugs (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – A sense of worth – drug users as community volunteers by Cilla Phillips and Nigel South
Community Service Volunteers (CSV) arranges volunteering placements for young people experiencing a variety of problems. A pilot project, CSV Action, tested the viability of such a scheme specifically for problem drug or alcohol users. Despite difficulties in establishing a referral…
Druglink article 1992 – A positive bust: arrest referral in Southwark by Jud Baker
A pilot programme to refer drug users to sources of help using a card given to all arrestees at police stations, showed that most who enquired about the project went onto follow the programme of help agreed with a drug…
Druglink article 1992 – Family problem, family therapy by John Fitzgerald and Alistair Sutherland
Therapeutic approaches that fail to see problem drug users in their family and social contexts reinforce stereotypes of drug users as social drop-outs. Approaches which recognise the central role of the family in the genesis and maintenance of drug problems…
Druglink article 1992 – Unpopular patients- GPs’ attitudes to drug users by Judy Greenwood
A former GP who helped establish a drug service in Edinburgh involving a network of GPS describes the attitudes and beliefs that lead GPs to avoid drug using patients. Among these are the social gulf between the doctor and the patient,…