The second class service experienced by drug users in many hospitals represents a missed opportunity to help thousands of people with drug problems. David Henstock describes how one hospital buckled the trend. Emergency: breathing life into hospital drug services (PDF)
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Druglink article 2004 – The 12 step model: it does what it says on the tin by Nick Barton
Going through the programme and conceptualising addiction as an illness has helped many people come off drugs. So, asks, Nick Barton, what difference does the labelling make? The 12 step model: it does what it says on the tin (PDF)
Druglink article 2004 – Being human: addiction as a catalyst by William Pryor
Great great grandson of Charles Darwin and one time heroin addict, William Pryor, argues that, whatever it is, addiction is not an illness and can be a catalyst in the search for what it is to be truly human. Overleaf,…
Druglink article 2004 – Long arm of the law by Jane Mackenzie
Drug users from America to Thailand are subjected to human rights abuses on a grand scale. Jane Mackenzie on the brutal treatment meted out on behalf of the global war on drugs. Long arm of the law (PDF)
Druglink article 2004 – Class of 2004: Going to the dogs by Max Daly
Is the use of sniffer dogs to search school children confined to a few classrooms in Kent? Max Daly investigates. Class of 2004: Going to the dogs (PDF)
Druglink factsheet 2004 – Drug testing
Drug detection times for all the main drugs and comparisons of saliva, urine, sweat, blood and hair testing. Factsheet 2004 – Drug testing (PDF)
Druglink article 2004 – Insite into safer injecting by Neil McKeganey
After the Sydney experiment a safer injecting centre was set up in Vancouver. Neil McKeganey, who believes such sites could benefit the UK, went to see this drug consumption room for himself. Insite into safer injecting (PDF)
Druglink article 2004 – The downside of Eastside by Mike Ashton
Established in 1989, Vancouver’s Eastside needle exchange grew to be the largest in North America, distributing over two million needles and syringes a year. But by 1995, Vancouver’s low rate of HIV infection suddenly tripled within 18 months. Researchers moved…
Druglink article 2004 – Children of a lesser God by Gibby Zobel
Behind the carnival image of Rio de Janeiro lurks one of the most deadly drug markets on the planet. Gibby Zobel reports from Rio on a trigger happy street drug scene which has claimed the lives of 4,000 children in…
Druglink article 2004 – Sports doping control: failing the test by Harry Shapiro
Sportsmen and women who break the drug rules face career – threatening bans and reputations as ‘drug cheats’. But, writes Harry Shapiro, scientific and ethical doubts about the whole programme remain unanswered. Sports doping control: failing the test (PDF)