Beyond the immediate and fundamental levels of poverty, unemployment and homelessness, social exclusion is ultimately founded on cultural exclusion. If addicts are ever to be ‘included’ once more in society, they need to be given the opportunity to rejoin it…
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Druglink article 1998 – All change in the health market by Peter Mason
Eight years ago Peter Mason predicted that market forces would fragment drug services and called for a minimum standard framework. What the intervening years have shown us is that the NHS internal market has failed to establish a special case…
Druglink supplement 1998 – Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) Drug misuse and the environment: a summary
The ACMD has produced this report because it feels that the world in which individual lives has been neglected when considering how to tackle drug misuse. Efforts have tended to concentrate on enforcement and treatment of the individual rather than…
Druglink article 1998 – Study safely: an exercise in partnership by Patrick Branigan and Claire Foxley
College students use drugs. In fact, for many students, going to college is the first time they come into regular contact with drugs. In London alone, there are over half a million students, nearly 100,000 of whom are higher education…
Druglink article 1998 – Parents who aren’t scared about drugs – and other curiosities by Neil Robertson
A couple of years ago, Druglink ran an article on needs assessment for parents, which found that though they wanted drug education, its delivery – and even its contents – might not be such easy aspects to resolve. After publication of…
Druglink article 1998 – The generation gap: barriers to effective communication by Anna McClure and Jane Wilcock
For many parents the word ‘drugs’ can instil fear and anxiety. This is hardly surprising considering that often their only source of information is through the media and, invariably, the moral panics created reinforce parental concerns. The mixed messages they…
Druglink article 1998 – Abuse and misuse: the ultimate hidden population by Jane Wilson
For a number of years, workers in the addiction field have noted that a growing number of their clients are ‘addicted survivors’. The association between adult substance misuse and childhood sexual abuse is increasingly being documented. Abuse and misuse: the…
Druglink news item 1998 – Outcomes for outcomes
A year on, and the National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS) has produced its first annual report. Britain apparently now has unambiguous evidence treatment works. What type of treatment works, who is it best for and can it survive in…
Druglink news item 1998 – Orange book signals sweeping changes
If a doctor needs a license to prescribe any drug other than methadone mixture, there will be considerable pressure not to prescribe any other drug. Orange book signals sweeping changes (PDF)
Druglink article 1998 – Colour by numbers: peer education from scratch by Helen Parkin and PC Bob Haynes
The case for and against peer education has rumbled on and off and perhaps the biggest question is – What’s the point? In answering that question, a Berkshire team set out to create an education programme that would ultimately develop…