Britain supports the US war on drugs in Colombia and it may be that British firms are developing biological controls for coca Misguided missiles: Drugs war in Colombia (PDF)
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Druglink article 2000 – Snowed under: Is it the real thing? by John Martin Corkery
If the UK suffered the cocaine epidemic which was reported in the 1990s the figures should reveal it. Snowed under: Is it the real thing? (PDF)
Druglink article 2000 – Regaining lost youth: youth workers success with drug users by John Bradshaw
The broad, comprehensive approach of Leeds City Council youth workers developed relationships with socially excluded young people that drug workers find difficult to establish. Regaining lost youth: youth workers success with drug users (PDF)
Druglinks from 2001
January / February 16(1) (PDF) March / April 16(2) (PDF) May / June 16(3) (PDF) July / August 16(4) (PDF) September / October 16(5) (PDF) November / December 16(6) (PDF)
Druglink/DrugWatch factsheet 2013 – Benzo Fury
Analysis of Benzo Fury usually finds it to contain the chemical 6-(2-aminopropyl) benzofuran (6-APB) or its related isomer 5-APB but using standard analysis methods it is impossible to differentiate between 6-APB and 5-APB. Little is known about the pharmacological or toxicological differences between the two isomers if any.…
Druglink Findings 2013 – Costs of failure to offer maintenance prescribing in prisons
An international team of experts led by Dagmar Hedrich of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has argued that failure to implement effective opioid maintenance in prisons represents an important and possibly costly missed opportunity to engage high-risk drug users in treatment. Costs of failure…
Druglink article 2013 – Lab-coated pills by Mike Power
With users in the UK dying from ecstasy tablets containing PMA, are Dutch pill – testing strategies the way forward? Or are users lulled into a false sense of security? Mike Power investigates Lab-coated pills (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – Sometimes it’s best to break the rules by Mike Ashton
When the mandates of motivational interviewing mean you seem less than genuine, the socially skilled counsellor will do more of what comes naturally. Motivational interviewing is the most influential counselling style in substance use treatment. Its originator William Miller reframed resistance as neither the manifestation of…
Druglink interview 2013 – Carole Sharma
Since the late 1990s, there has been significant investment in drug treatment services to the point where the major providers constitute a medium size industry. But has the expertise of the workforce kept pace with such rapid commercial development? Carole Sharma, Chief Executive of the Federation of…
Druglink article 2013 – Spirits of the age by Harry Shapiro
As the Turkish government recently discovered, trying to rein in a long established drinking culture can be incendiary. The general perception of Prohibition in America, was that, it too, was doomed to failure. But was it a total flop? Spirits of the age…