Adult smoking habits in the UK: 2024 Cigarette smoking habits among adults in the UK, including how many people smoke, differences between population groups, changes over time and use of e-cigarettes. Around 5.3 million people aged 18 years and over…
Tag Archive for harm reduction
Naloxone
What is Naloxone? Naloxone is a medicine which can temporarily reverse the effects of an overdose caused by opiates and opioids and opioids such as heroin, methadone, morphine, codeine or buprenorphine. The most life-threatening effect of opiates is to slow…
Magic mushrooms
What are Magic Mushrooms? | Methods of use | History | The law | Price | Effects | Prevalence of use | Harm reduction | Possible medical uses What are Magic Mushrooms? Agaric, Amani, Fly agaric, Liberties, Liberty Caps, Magics,…
LSD
What is LSD? Acid, blotter, cheer, dots, drop, flash, hawk, L, lightning flash, liquid acid, Lucy, micro dot, paper mushrooms, rainbows, smilies, stars, sugar, tab, trips, tripper, window and many other names, some which describe the pictures on the squares…
Harm reduction
What is harm reduction? Harm reduction refers to policies and practices that try to reduce the harm that people do to themselves or others from their drug use. It can be contrasted with primary prevention which tries to prevent people using…
Ecstasy
What is ecstasy? Brownies, cowies, dolphins, doves, E, eckies, Edward, fantasy, love doves, M and Ms, New Yorkers, sweeties, tulips, X, XTC, MDMA (powder), Mandy, MD, Molly Ecstasy comes in pill and powder forms or, very occasionally, as crystals. The…
Amphetamine
What are amphetamines? Speed, sulph, sulphate, uppers, wake ups, billy whizz, whizz, whites, base…Methylphenidate, Ritalin. Dexamphetamine, Dexedrine. Methamphetamine, crystal meth, meth, yaba, crank, glass, Tina, Christine, ice. Amphetamines are synthetic stimulants. Stimulants are drugs that speed up the body’s processes…
What types of treatment are there?
People who have problems with drug use can access help and treatment either through the health and welfare system. (via drug advice services or GP referral) or through the criminal justice system if they have committed an offence. Health and welfare…
How effective are media campaigns?
Trying to determine whether people have changed their drug taking because they saw a campaign is near impossible to measure. Many surveys about drugs show that most people’s main source of information about drugs is the popular media. Most media…
Does drug education work?
It is important drug education is based on evidence about what works and what clearly does not work. Many drug education programmes have been evaluated in this country, other European countries and America. Collectively they show that: The impact of…