Enforce frequent drug testing and levy swift, certain and meaningful sanctions for substance use and many dependent users stop using without treatment. Mike Ashton asks if this is the future, or just a niche option applicable to users over whom authorities can exercise…
Tag Archive for Druglink
Druglink article 2012 – A Bridge Not Far Enough by Paul Wells
Walk the line (Druglink July/August) clearly demonstrated the vulnerable position that service users can be placed in when the recovery agenda is poorly understood or implemented. The change of emphasis in the 2010 Drug Strategy has done more than simply shake the complacency of some drug services who…
Druglink/DrugWatch factsheet 2012 – Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, is used in surgery for its mild anaesthetic and analgesic effects and is one of the safest medical inhalants/anaesthetics, because it has little effect on critical body functions – which it is why it is a…
Druglink article 2012 – Birth of the Narco-state by Andrew Craig
In Ghana, greater self-sufficiency, improvements in health care and a reduction in poverty have all contributed to its stability over the last 20 years. However, the result of the national election to be held in December 2012 has the potential to destroy these…
Druglink article 2012 – Wash day by Euan Grant
To paraphrase The Wire, if you just go after the drugs, all you get is drugs; chase the money and you never know where it may lead. But with HSBC the latest bank to be embroiled in a drug money scandal, how effective…
Druglink article 2012 – Whatever happened to ‘glue-sniffing?’ by Richard Ives and Nicola Morgan
Although technically incorrect, the expression gained traction with the media when the practice was at its height back in the 1980s. But whatever you call it, the misuse of solvents has dropped off the radar. Whatever happened to ‘glue-sniffing?’ (PDF)
Druglink article 2012 – Red, white and booze by Bill Puddicombe
The latest figures for alcohol consumption in England indicate that consumption is falling including among the young, more of whom think it is not acceptable to be drunk even once a week. Yet figures for hospital admissions have soared by 40% since 2002 which suggests that people…
Druglink article 2012 – Twist in the tale by John Densmore
Payment by results (PBR) fundamentally changes the way that providers will be paid for services. But many are sceptical it can be made to work in our sector. John Densmore examines one especially knotty issue. Twist in the tale (PDF) Additional keywords: funding
Druglink article 2012 – ‘Drone strikes by Max Daly
Despite the 2010 ban on mephedrone, drug services are seeing increasing numbers of people coming forward to report serious problems with the drug. Mephedrone, known variously as mcat,bubble and fert is a powerful stimulant whose use appeared to dip after being controlled as a…
Druglink obituary 2012 – Professor Griffith Edwards 1928-2012 by John Strang
Griffith’s work flourished at a time when addiction was still a very young science and a subject surrounded by ignorance and stigma. Unhampered by the constraints of the current academic world with its research metrics and h-indexes, Griffith nurtured an imaginative range of studies at the…