Keeping opiate users in a therapeutic cul-de-sac may be a price worth paying. No more junkie heroes? (PDF)
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Druglink article 1992 – Bums on seats: a speculation on the future of dug training in Britain by Gary Easthope
A study of drug training units in Britain revealed the dominance of experiential training methods that draw heavily on the existing experience and skills of trainees. But several forces are creating a move away from this towards a more conventional…
Druglink article 1992 – Drug training in the United Kingdom by Gary Easthope
Following recommendations made by the ACMD in 1982 the government’s Central Funding Initiative funded the setting up of several regional specialist drug training units in the period 1983-1987. Lack of central planning meant these were patchily distributed and varied in…
Druglink article 1992 – Barriers to safer sex by Caroline Cupitt, Geraldine Mulleady, Keith Philips and David White
Why condom availability doesn’t lead to safer sex. Barriers to safer sex (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – Probation, harm reduction, and drug services by Marilyn Bild
This review of a three year project to establish good practice in a probation service explains the difficulty of implementing a harm reduction strategy in the face of services often unattractive to many users and unwilling to cooperate in achieving…
Druglink article 1992 – Rural HIV prevention by Jan Keene and Gerry Stimson
In rural Wales they’ve had to develop new ways of delivering HIV prevention services. HIV prevention is usually seen as a package of syringe dispersal, disposal, health care and help with drug problems, often based in drug agencies. This has worked well…
Druglink article 1992 – Grant frozen after ministers see ecstasy leaflet
A government grant to Mersey Drug Training and Information Centre has been withheld following a tabloid press storm over the ecstasy information in the centre’s Chill Out leaflet Grant frozen after ministers see ecstasy leaflet (PDF) Additional keywords: newspapers /…
Druglink article 1992 – The state of the market by Peter Mason
The purchaser-provider split is meant to open the health market to independent (private and voluntary) but this movement is hampered by confusion between health and social care costs and by ‘steady state’ policies which favour NHS units. Fixed payment contracts…
Druglink article 1992 – Agencies face wave of ecstasy problems
Increasing numbers of young people are contacting drug agencies worried about the effects and long term consequences of taking ecstasy. Agencies face wave of ecstasy problems (PDF)
Druglink article 1991 – Into the Pleasuredome… by Andrew Fraser, Laura Gamble and Peter Kennett
The ‘Pleasuredome’ is Brighton’s central entertainment area with young people’s clubs, pubs and music venues. An open drug market developed involving cannabis, LSD, ecstasy and amphetamines. Use of these drugs became part of the area’s youth leisure culture and casualties…