Disease models have been replaced by more realistic but more complex models. This three triangle framework is one practical way to organise the confusion. A framework for understanding drug use (PDF)
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Druglink article 1987 – Addicts can change by Richard Hartnoll, Emmanuelle Daviaud and Robert Power
Will people prepared to inject illegal drugs with secondhand needles be able to change now to reduce the risk of spreading AIDS to each other, and to the general popultion? Research in London (drug indicators Project) suggests there’s at least…
Druglink article 1987 – A cocaine explosion by Colin Hewitt
In January cocaine worth £6 million was seized in Essex and politicians renewed warnings that surplus South American cocaine was set to cause a ‘cocaine explosion’ in Britain. But the UK’s top police drugs investigator believes our defences can withstand…
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 – High time for harm reduction by Russell Newcombe
For many youngsters, the ‘just say no’ campaign has come too late or failed: in some urban areas, heroin and other illicit drugs have become a ‘normal’ part of teenage experience. In areas like these, Russell Newcombe argues, it’s ‘high…
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 1987 – Needle swop in Mersey by Allan Parry
Drug injecting and personal responsibility may seem incompatible – but in Liverpool drug injectors have not ‘misused’ an experimental needle exchange scheme. Allan Parry describes how a simple exchange scheme can quickly develop an important health education and counselling role.…
Druglink article 1987 – Fit to be patents? by Lyn Perry
The Law Lords’ precedent-setting decision preventing a Reading addict regaining custody of her child has dismayed many who work closely with drug users. Lyn Perry explains the decision and its implications Fit to be parents? (PDF)
Druglinks from 1987
January/February 2(1) (PDF) March/April 2(2) (PDF) May/June 2(3) (PDF) July/August 2(4) (PDF) September/October 2(5) (PDF) November/December 2(6) (PDF)
Druglink article 1986 – Drugs, crime and violence by Robert Power
Who, if anyone, needs to worry about drug-related violence? The person in the street, shopkeepers, governments or the drug users themselves? Fieldwork experience in London and a review of the international research literature throws up some unexpected answers. Drugs, crime…