Last year an important Home Office policy statement helped open the way for drug services to work in prisons. Just one agency in Britain specialises in this work. Its coordinator argues that prison or the threat of prison creates intervention…
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Druglink article 1988 – Wraps against AIDS by Andrew Fraser
How can you bring the anti-AIDS message before drug users each time they take drugs? Brighton’s Drug Advice and Information Service found a novel solution. Wraps against AIDS (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange 2: the clients by Gerry Stimson, Martin Donoghoe, Lindsay Alldritt and Kate Dolan
How far do syringe exchange scheme clients need to change to avoid the risk of HIV infection, and how difficult will it be to achieve these changes? By extension, the answers suggest the dimensions of the task facing Britain’s attempt to…
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange: the Liverpool experience by Janette Carr and Steve Dalton
Mersey’s regional drug training and information centre runs one of the busiest syringe exchange schemes in Britain. Soon after opening, staff found they had to make controversial decisions about how far to go in making the scheme attractive to injectors and…
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange 1 by Gerry Stimson, Kate Dolan, Martin Donoghoe and Lindsay Alldritt
Last June a government-funded project began evaluating the work of 15 syringe exchange schemes. The results will influence the fate of needle exchange schemes throughout Britain. This first report is about whether the schemes are working in ways that attract…
Druglink article 1988 – HIV top priority says official ACMD report
Government rejects call for more money to fight AIDS in drug users. This article also looks at what the ACMD report on Aids and Drug Misuse says and the government response to the report. HIV top priority says official ACMD…
Druglink article 1988 – Aids in the house by Stewart Dixon and Jane Hollis
Nowhere is the re-evaluation of drug services forced by HIV and AIDS more painful than in the traditional concept-based therapeutic communities, with their uncompromising philosophies and hierarchical regimes. But, as this report shows, far-reaching changes may be needed. Aids in…
Druglink article 1988 – Joining the professionals by Mark Gilman
Adventure, challenge and an absorbing way of life – it’s not a recruitment ad for the army, but arguably the attraction of a heroin based lifestyle for thousands of unemployed young people in the pre 1990s, Are they addicted –…
Druglink article 1988 – Starting a drugline by Joan Goode
One of Britain’s most experienced organisers of volunteer based drug projects guides us through the pitfalls of starting a Drugline type telephone helpline/counselling service. Lack of planning and support can spell disaster. Starting a drugline (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – The rise and fall of family support groups by Nicholas Dorn, Christine James and Nigel South
ISDD researchers set out reasons for adopting a sympathetic but questioning attitude to family support groups in the drugs field, looking first at limitations inherent in the conventional group, then describing some forms of practice that can serve as adjuncts…