The recent death of Professor Hamid Ghodse is a huge loss to the global field of drug misuse. His achievements in areas of academia, research and international policy development to reduce the harm to individuals and cost to societies locally and across the world, are legion. But to many, including myself, the loss is also…
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Bitesize briefing 2013 – Public Health
This edition of Druglink covers a period of profound and far-reaching change in the structures and processes for planning, commissioning and delivering substance misuse services. So what are the principal changes? Has the NTA really gone for good? How will things work under the PHE?…
Druglink article 2013 – Meph lining by Michael Bird
In Romania, following a switch from heroin to legal highs among injecting drug users, new cases of HIV have boomed. Meph lining (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – A Tripp down memory lane by Harry Shapiro
The prescribing habits of a handful of London doctors led to what some have described as the beginning of the end for the ‘British System’. A Tripp down memory lane (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – The human cannabis farm by Richard Shrubb
Cannabis smokers have been indirectly responsible for important developments in nervous system medicine. Richard Shrubb on how the body’s own cannabinoids have the potential to treat a range of conditions, including psychosis. The human cannabis farm (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – Do you trust the Dark Side? by John Bagshaw
Online drug discussion forums such as Bluelight offer free advice for people who are struggling with drug problems. But, says John Bagshaw, can this advice be trusted? The internet has revolutionized many aspects of our lives and drugs are no different. Drug users are…
Druglink article 2013 – Every day and every way…. by Max Daly
Max Daly investigates the growing market in drugs that claim to put you on top of the game. When hairdresser Claire Squires emptied a scoop of the now banned sports energy supplement Jack3d into her water bottle before running last year’s London Marathon, she had…
Druglink article 2013 – Reality check
A snapshot survey of people in drug treatment provides the latest figures on topping-up, unemployment, crime, supervised doses and psychosocial support. But it also reveals that a lack of flexibility may inhibit successful recovery. Reality check (PDF)
Druglink interview 2013 – Baroness Molly Meacher by Harry Shapiro
Events worldwide prompted Baroness Meacher to try to move the drug law reform debate on in the UK. Interview – Baroness Molly Meacher (PDF)
Druglink news item 2013 – Foiled again by Max Daly
Government still dragging its feet over foil. On the 10th November 2010, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) submitted a detailed report to the Home Secretary Theresa May on the provision of foil as a harm reduction intervention for drug services. It recommended…