When teenager Sophie smoked a legal brand of synthetic cannabis she expected to get high. But it turned out to be a nasty experience that the sellers and websites promoting the brand refused to acknowledge A noxious business (PDF)
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Druglink article 1998 – Remember me? by Gary Sutton
Here Gary Sutton gives us the drug user’s perspective and warns against over-zealous nannying: addicts are people, and no one can force them to ‘come to terms’ with their reasons for using or think that stopping drugs stops the hurt.…
Druglink article 1988 – When time falls apart by Geoffrey Pearson
In order to explore new dimensions of the relationship between heroin use and unemployment, it is helpful to forget about heroin for a moment and focus on the lives of the unemployed. When time falls apart (PDF) Additional keywords: unemployment…
Druglink article 1988 – Living with drugs: a strategy for survival by Robert Power
Telescoped here into a single fictional day are events typical of the life of many on the fringes of drug-centred subcultures, maintaining a life of their own despite regular drug use. Not totally immersed in the hustling scene of London’s…