It was the drug tale had legs – and it ran and ran…It seems that furry animals and drugs are an irresistible combination Crack squirrels: the making of a bushy tale (PDF)
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Druglink factsheet 2005 – Street drug prices 2005
Druglink spoke to around 40 frontline drug agencies in 15 UK cities to gauge the latest average street prices for 10 drugs. Factsheet – Street drug prices 2005 (PDF)
Druglink supplement 2005 – Commissioning news
This supplement is designed to support commissioners to bring about fairer and quicker treatment for those who need it. Commissioning news (PDF)
Druglink article 2005 – Point Counterpoint: Drugs and morality by Neil McKeganey and Marcus Roberts
Professor Neil McKeganey argues that providing problem drug users with clean needles and clean heroin is a morally suspect act. But, says, Dr Marcus Roberts over the page, it is measures such as these that underpin morality in UK drug…
Druglink article 2005 – Families on the frontline
Families are a key element in reducing the harm caused to individuals and communities by drug use. But, say Katie Burrell and Henry French, relatives who want to help those closest to them lack support Families on the frontline (PDF)
Druglink article 2005 – Rough justice by Daren Garratt
Inmates sharing syringes have made prisons a high-risk environment for HIV and other blood-borne viruses. So why, asks Daren Garratt, are the interests of harm reduction so poorly served in our jails. Rough justice (PDF)
Druglink article 2005 – Flushing out the truth about drugs by Mike Linnell
Over the past two decades Lifeline’s publications have caused hilarity and outrage in equal measure. Director of Communications Mike Linnell on the moral dilemmas of getting harm reduction messages across to drug users. Flushing out the truth about drugs (PDF)
Druglink article 2005 – Injecting new life into harm reduction by Russell Newcombe
Britain’s success in containing the spread HIV since the 1980s is one of its greatest public health achievements. But since then, says Russell Newcombe, our record on harm reduction has been feeble. Injecting new life into harm reduction (PDF)
Druglink article 2005 – K is for ketamine by Mark White
The Home Office will make the increasingly popular drug ketamine illegal before the end of the year. Mark White on an anaesthetic which – via the battlefields, the gay clubbing scene and Indian pharmacies – has risen to prominence as…
Druglink article 2005 – Trading places by Max Daly
Ketamine on the rise, ecstasy for 50p and ‘two in one’ bags of heroin and crack: Max Daly takes a look at the results of the year’s UK wide drug prices survey Trading places (PDF) DrugScope street drugs survey 2005