Have health professionals started a new moral panic over e-cigarettes? Neil McKeganey thinks they have. Scary monsters (PDF)
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Druglink article 2014 – Nice of you to notice: Image and performance enhancing drugs by Joseph Kean and Jim McVeigh
A significant official under-reporting of steroid use is just one of the challenges facing those workers trying to assist many hidden groups of IPED users. For anyone who trains in a gym and has been brave enough to venture into the free weights area…
Druglink article 2014 – Crime busters or PCC plods? by Geoff Monaghan
Former detective sergeant Geoff Monaghan has some trenchant views on the policing plans of Policing and Crime Commissioners. Crime busters or PCC plods? (PDF)
Druglink article 2014 – Driven by loss: Don’t be in the dark about legal highs by Max Daly
Fiona Spargo-Mabbs, Anne-Marie Cockburn and Maryon Stewart were all left shocked and grief stricken when their children died after taking drugs. But they all have something else in common too. They are campaigning and agitating to make sure other parents do not have to…
Druglink article 2014 – The Futures Market by Marcus Roberts
Crime, heroin and poverty underpinned the growth of the sector. But with change happening at every turn, Marcus Roberts takes stock. A new Home Office research report by Nick Morgan considers The heroin epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s and its effect upon crime trends…
Druglink obituary 2014 – David Turner
David Turner, my friend and colleague, has died after a long struggle with cancer. David was, without question, one of the most significant figures in UK and European drug policy over the past 50 years. Colleagues, friends and family will miss his easy…
Druglink article 1999 – Reading between the lines: Is cocaine becoming the stimulant of choice for urban youth? by Annabel Boys, John Marsden and Paul Griffiths
Recent concerns about hard drug use among young people have focussed on whether the UK is experiencing a new heroin epidemic with particular concern that the heroin user is younger than ever. While exploring this contention in a London context,…
Druglink article 1999 – Can these bones live? by Peter Farley
This article is compulsory reading. The government keeps telling us that ‘volunteering’ is the way ahead and that statutory provision only has itself to blame if it loses ground to the voluntary sector. Here, you can find the reasons for…
Druglink article 1999 – Singing from the same hymn sheet: Still struggling with multi-disciplinary teams by Tony Herbert
At the end of 1997, Druglink carried an article examining the theory of multi-disciplinary drug teams. A year on, we have to ask ourselves whether Community Psychiatric Nurses and social workers alone constitute a multi-disciplinary team or are Community Drug…
Druglink article 1999 – Caring and sharing: Modelling successful shared care by Jim Barnard and Claire Higson
It’s been around for as long as you care to remember – in theory. But the practice of shared care has all too often failed to live up to the ideal. So here, the leaders of one of the country’s…