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 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 – Onion rings to go: social exclusion and addiction by Mark Gilman
A couple of years ago, it was a term used only by European bureaucrats and sociologists. But with the formation of its very own unit within government, the imminent publication of the ACMD’s report on drugs and the environment and…
Druglink article 1998 – Drug users aren’t working by Joanne Neale
It’s so obvious, for years it hardly needed proof – unemployment and drug use are connected. But with the New Deal in the pipeline, we now need to take a harder look at the relationship between drugs and the dole.…
Druglink article 1996 – Drug testing in the workplace by Sarah Goode
The issue of drug testing has once again hit the headlines but this time it’s not prisoners who will be tested. The announcement by Grampian police that it is beginning to test recruits, officers and civilian staff has made workplace…
Druglink article 1996 – Heroin in the ’90s from A to B by Harry Shapiro
The first Druglink in May 1986 looked at the heroin situation in Britain. In this, our tenth anniversary issue, we revisit the drug and its new found publicity through Trainspotting and ask the question ” is smack back – or…
Druglink article 1995 – Peer education among crack users: Not so cracked by Tim Bottonley, Mike Smith and Chris Wibberley
A project run by a community drug team near Manchester involved recruiting crack users to research local crack use. Eight volunteers interviewed over 200 crack users. Though crack-related problems were common, most people were not in touch with services. The…
Druglink article 1995 – How involved can you get? by Simon Polley
A service’s users may go far beyond drug users. User involvement is the process by which services systematically learn from their users to achieve a more effective service. Common problems include dis-empowering users unacustomed to the bureaucracy and jargon of…
Druglink factsheet 1993 – User to user by Keith Bolton and Annette Walling
Street corner style outreach was inappropriate in a rural area where drug dealing and drug use take place behind closed doors in flats and houses. In response a team of volunteer outreach workers was recruited and trained, many themselves former…
Druglink article 1993 – Second class citizens by Russell Newcombe
Being recorded by a doctor as a drug user, convicted of a drug offence, or known to use drugs illegally, can have repercussions on a drug user’s eligibility for a variety of jobs; licence to drive; custody of children; tenancy in…