Preliminary research findings suggest government-sponsored needle exchange schemes are seeing a high proportion of clients at risk of HIV infection through sharing injecting equipment. User friendliness key to attracting clients (PDF)
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Druglink article from 1987 – I’ve been there and look at me now by Joan Jerome
At TRANX they’ve found ex-users can help others overcome benzodiazepine dependence where the professionals have failed. Identification and example are the keys, explains Joan Jerome I’ve been there and look at me now (PDF)
Druglink article 1987 – State rationed drugs by John Marks
John Marks’s acceptance of a role as purveyor of state-rationed opiates on a ‘maintenance’ basis to addicts determined to continue their addiction, contrasts sharply with anti-maintenance treatment trends elsewhere but he maintains better a live maintained addict than a dead…
Druglink article 1987 – Aids groups and drugs by Bill Nelles
Drug agencies are apprehensive and unsure about dealing with AIDS; Aids agencies are unsure how to deal with drug users. Bill Nelles, who has had a foot in both camps, believes cooperation is urgently required if drug users are not…
Druglink article 1987 – Responses to heroin misuse, working togther, by Geoffrey Pearson, Mark Gilman and Shirley McIver
In the spring and summer of 1985 a research team travelled the breadth of northern England and made detailed neighbourhood studies, building a picture of heroin misuse and responses to it in the North. Their report – on which this…
Druglink article 1987 – Time to build bridges by Brian Wells
NA and the Minnesota Method in Britain. AAs ‘Twelve steps’ form the basis of an increasingly influential rehabilitation movement in Britain, ranging from the self-help groups of Narcotics Anonymous to £1000 a week clinics in Hampstead. The elements of ‘private’…
Druglink article 1986 – No free lunches by Andy Malinowski
Using volunteers to staff drug advice services may seem attractive to small, under-funded projects. But even with meticulous planning things can go wrong. Andy shares the experiences that led him to drop volunteers and look for more paid staff instead.…
Druglink article 1986 – Aids and injecting by David Turner
David Turner’s call for drug agencies to practice risk-reduction to save lives. We also see how such practices – including new syringes for old – have been working in Amsterdam. Aids and injecting (PDF)
Druglink article 1986 – Alcohol and drugs, unsuitable attachment by Don Steele
Expanded funding for drug agencies and the high level of political concern over drug problems have left alcohol agencies smarting over what they see as the much greater problem of alcohol abuse. Alcohol and drugs – unsuitable attachment? (PDF)
Druglink article 1986 – Drugs: A family problem? by Tom Aldridge
Tom Aldridge shares his experience of social work with families in a drug dependency unit. Drugs – a family problem?