Give drug users a chance to work – but not here! Drug agency hypocrisy or prudent self-defence. The last taboo, drug use by drug workers (PDF)
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Druglink article 1990 – The medium is the message by Steve Cranfield, Marie Faire and Peter Gordon
Trainers aiming to train drug workers to have confidence in their own skills, to listen to and respond flexibly to their needs, and value their perceptions, should model these same qualities in their own training practice. This means adopting experiential…
Druglink article 1990 – Marriage of convenience by Paul Atkins
Intense political pressure forged a dubious alliance between government and the Terrence Higgins Trust Marriage of convenience (PDF)
Druglink article 1990 – Who’s minding the kids by Patricia Kearney and Gillian Norman-Bruce
Time for agencies to develop child care policies. Maintaining the child-focused approach needed for child protection work is particularly difficult for drug agencies, which are often isolated from statutory services and whose clients can themselves legitimately be viewed as victims.…
Druglink article 1990 – ‘The last place I would go’ Black people and drug services in Britain by Joy Awiah, Saeed Butt and Nicholas Dorn
The Interim report of a research project interviewing Asian men in Bradford and African-descent women in London concerning drug problems in their respective ethnic groups and their attitudes to and knowledge of local drug services. The vast majority of both…
Druglink article 1990 – Helping the sniffers by Richard Ives
Valid professional approaches to solvent misuse may range from doing nothing to in-depth individual counselling or family therapy and action in the local community or wider society. They are not mutually exclusive. Workers should carefully tailor their mix of responses…
Druglink article 1990 – Parents self-help in Mersey by Howard Parker and Loraine Donelly
Parents devastated by heroin use in the family speak about which services helped most. Research among parents of heroin users found a high degree of shock and distress. Parents felt the probation service was most help as it included them in…
Druglink article 1990 – The funding crisis for rehabs by David Tomlinson
Community care funding arrangements coming into force next April will decrease the guaranteed per-resident payment to residential drug projects and leave the bulk of the funding at the discretion of local authorities which may need to assess each applicant. Local…
Druglink article 1990 – Dealing with the health market by Peter Mason
The NHS and community care reorganisations will create a health care market with many purchasers and providers. Market forces could further fragment services and force even popular agencies to close. To regulate the market both sides should establish consortia or…
Druglink article 1990 – Making research part of drugs work by Robert Power, Sara Jones, Annette Dale and Paul Turnbull
An example is given of close cooperation between researchers evaluating a drug team and the team itself. Regular, speedy feedback of research findings helped the team refine its objectives and methods. Research surveys and outreach studies doubled as publicity for…