How can you bring the anti-AIDS message before drug users each time they take drugs? Brighton’s Drug Advice and Information Service found a novel solution. Wraps against AIDS (PDF)
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Druglink article 1988 – Syringe hygiene by Anthony Ellam
‘Bleach out, boiling in’ was Druglink’s summary of the DHSS’s latest advice on syringe hygiene. Now new work at the Public Health Laboratory Service has led the DHSS to refer the whole problem back to the experts. Tony Ellam of…
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange 2: the clients by Gerry Stimson, Martin Donoghoe, Lindsay Alldritt and Kate Dolan
How far do syringe exchange scheme clients need to change to avoid the risk of HIV infection, and how difficult will it be to achieve these changes? By extension, the answers suggest the dimensions of the task facing Britain’s attempt to…
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange: the Liverpool experience by Janette Carr and Steve Dalton
Mersey’s regional drug training and information centre runs one of the busiest syringe exchange schemes in Britain. Soon after opening, staff found they had to make controversial decisions about how far to go in making the scheme attractive to injectors and…
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange 1 by Gerry Stimson, Kate Dolan, Martin Donoghoe and Lindsay Alldritt
Last June a government-funded project began evaluating the work of 15 syringe exchange schemes. The results will influence the fate of needle exchange schemes throughout Britain. This first report is about whether the schemes are working in ways that attract…
Druglink article 1988 – Beyond ‘just say no’ by Ian Clements, Julian Cohen and Pat O’Hare
Drug education in schools seems to be up a blind alley – approaches aimed at preventing drug use are ineffective and those aimed at reducing harm are unacceptable. Meantime AIDS is pushing back the frontiers of acceptable responses to drug…
Druglink article 1988 – HIV top priority says official ACMD report
Government rejects call for more money to fight AIDS in drug users. This article also looks at what the ACMD report on Aids and Drug Misuse says and the government response to the report. HIV top priority says official ACMD…
Druglink article 1988 – User friendliness key to attracting clients
Preliminary research findings suggest government-sponsored needle exchange schemes are seeing a high proportion of clients at risk of HIV infection through sharing injecting equipment. User friendliness key to attracting clients (PDF)
Druglink article from 1987 – Don’t inject AIDS
Photos and words from the government’s £5 million anti-AIDS media campaign. Most ads appeared in youth specific media. Don’t inject AIDS (PDF)
Druglink article from 1987 – ‘Overwhelmed’ needle exchange schemes close down
Pilot needle exchange schemes north of the border have run into serious problems. The three Dundee schemes have all closed while Glasgow’s scheme has been picketed by local residents. ‘Overwhelmed’ needle exchange schemes close down (PDF)