The Lifeline Project in Manchester is making the country’s first syringe vending machine available to other agencies as an alternative or supplement to needle exchange schemes. Britain’s first syringe vending machine now available (PDF)
Tag Archive for harm reduction
Druglink article 1990 – Reaching the hard to reach by Tim Rhodes, Janet Holland, Richard Hartnoll, Ann Johnson and Sara Jones
Outreach strategies in the USA, Netherlands and UK tend either to be treatment oriented or to aim for safer injecting. These should be seen as complementary objectives both capable of reducing HIV transmission. Providing services ‘on the street’ rather than…
Druglink article 1990 – Probation service makes harm reduction official policy
Promotion of harm reduction approaches with drug using clients is now official policy of the Inner London Probation Service breaking through the ideological barrier against criminal justice officers being seen to collude with continued offending in the form of illegal…
Druglink article 1990 – The politics of anti-drug campaigns by Tim Rhodes
Government anti-drugs campaigns have attempted to address non-users as well as users. But images and messages that successfully deter non-users may simply have alienated drug users, making them less responsive to official sources of help and information. The latest campaign…
Druglink article 1990 – The limits of intervention by Geoffrey Pearson, Mark Gilman and Paul Traynor
How travel sickness tablets forced workers to face the fact that sometimes there’s little you can do. The limits of intervention (PDF) Additional keywords: Cyclizine / Diconal / Temgesic / Scotland
Druglink article 1990 – HIV and drugs in British prisons by Mike Trace
With up to 20,000 drug misusers imprisoned each year, there is reason to believe that sexual and injection-related HIV spread in British prisons is a serious problem. However, the authorities face strong staff resistance and severe resource problems in providing…
Druglink article 1989 – Syringe exchange 3, Can injectors change? by Gerry Stimson, Kate Dolan, Martin Donoghoe, Lindsey Alldritt and Rachel Lart
In this last of three reports the Monitoring Research Group fills in the bottom line of its study of the Government’s 15 pilot needle exchange schemes. This issue is whether the scheme’s clients reduced their risk of HIV infection by…
Druglink article 1989 – Cost-effectiveness is not a dirty word by James Les Kay
A ‘very modest proposal’ says the author. Others may see it as an unholy descent from saving lives to saving money. Welfare benefit gained per £ spent is the issue. Outreach work is the example. Cost-effectiveness is not a dirty word…
Druglink article 1988 – Serious fun by Russell Newcombe
Drug education through popular culture. Good jokes circulate like wildfire, comics are passed around, pop songs chorused on the way to school. Can young people learn as they laugh? Serious fun (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Further beyond just say no
Three drug education coordinators from the North West pointed their personal way to ‘Beyond just say no’ Their aim was to start a debate over the future of drug education…They may have got more debate than they bargained for… Further…