Advertising agency TBWA achieve a triple entendre in this deliberately risque youth press ad, part of the new government commissioned joint anti-injecting anti-drug campaign. TBWA managing director Sammy Harari explained that market research showed if an ad is a bit…
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Druglink article 1987 – Aids and drug workers by Paul Hendry
Facing death and talking in graphic detail about sexuality and sexual practices is hard for most of us – but that’s just what AIDS is forcing drug workers to do. Should they – can they – meet the challenge? Aids…
Druglink article 1987 – Stabilise not criminalise by Ann Dally
Twice rebuked by her own profession’s disciplinary committee, Dr Ann Dally still forcefully argues the case for stabilisation treatment for long-term opiate addicts. Stabilise not criminalise (PDF)
Druglink article 1987 – Treatment trends, the statistics tell the story by Mike Ashton
Addiction notification statistics can be used to answer important questions about addiction. Treatment trends, the statistics tell the story (PDF)
Druglink article 1987 – Maintenance or abstinence by Jackie Chang
Countering AIDS and curing addiction are different aims requiring radically different strategies. Half-hearted merger could doom both to failure. Maintenance or abstinence (PDF)
Druglink article 1987 – Benzodiazepine prescribing: the aftermath by John Cooper
The decline of benzodiazepines may just be clearing the way for a new generation of anxiety-beating, dependence producing drugs. John Cooper reminds us of the legacy of the benzodiazepines – hundreds of thousands dependent, with the demand for help far…
Druglink article 1987 – Election 87
What the political parties said about drugs Election 87 (PDF)
Druglink article 1987 – Reducing harm can hurt by Chris Roworth
Youth workers responsible for a party of young people abroad sight two of them smoking cannabis – should they ‘get heavy’ and risk ruining the trip, or play it cool and risk losing their jobs? What happened next ed an…
Druglink article 1987 – Dilemmas in youth work by Nicholas Dorn and Christine James
Drug use by young people is most often encountered outside rather than inside schools, where it is the youth work side of the education service that has to directly confront the difficult legal and control issues involved. Dilemmas in youth…
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…