Problem heroin users have needle exchange and maintenance prescribing, yet there is no harm reduction equivalent in the UK for chronic alcohol users. Mike Ashton on a residential unit in Canada which uses doses of wine and sherry to bring…
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Druglink article 2006 – A price on their heads by Harry Shapiro
How much does it cost per client to prescribe methadone, run a needle exchange or operate a counselling service. Don’t Know? Well, it’s time to get the calculator out because unit costing is coming to a budget near you. A…
Druglink article 2006 – The kit to make a hit by Jenny Scott
Over the last three years, new laws have enabled services to supply the core components of injecting paraphernalia. Yet there are still barriers to overcome to ensure equipment is supplied and used properly. The kit to make a hit (PDF)
Druglink article 2006 – The works party comedown by Jamie Bridge
Despite its position on the frontline in the battle against blood-borne viruses, needle exchange is being hampered by apathy and blinkered thinking. Jamie Bridge warns there is much to be done if we are to combat the spread of hepatitis…
Druglink article 2006 – The fruits of fear by Radhika Holmstrom
Twenty years ago, in the midst of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, drug users were being handed free needles to inject more drugs. Radhika Holmstrom looks at the birth and development of needle exchanges The fruits of fear (PDF)
Druglink news item 2006 – Injecting rooms rejected by Harry Shapiro
The Home Office has booted the idea of providing facilities for injecting drug users firmly into touch. But have the government scored an own goal? Injecting rooms rejected (PDF) Additional keywords: drug consumption rooms
Druglink article 2006 – Iran opens up to opium reality by Max Daly and Maryam Ashrafi
Iran’s proximity to the world’s largest opium producer has created a spiralling drug and HIV problem. But, reports Max Daly, cultural qualms have been pushed aside in order to confront the grim reality. Iran opens up to opium reality (PDF)
Druglink article 2005 – Point Counterpoint: Drugs and morality by Neil McKeganey and Marcus Roberts
Professor Neil McKeganey argues that providing problem drug users with clean needles and clean heroin is a morally suspect act. But, says, Dr Marcus Roberts over the page, it is measures such as these that underpin morality in UK drug…
Druglink article 2005 – Rough justice by Daren Garratt
Inmates sharing syringes have made prisons a high-risk environment for HIV and other blood-borne viruses. So why, asks Daren Garratt, are the interests of harm reduction so poorly served in our jails. Rough justice (PDF)
Druglink article 2005 – Flushing out the truth about drugs by Mike Linnell
Over the past two decades Lifeline’s publications have caused hilarity and outrage in equal measure. Director of Communications Mike Linnell on the moral dilemmas of getting harm reduction messages across to drug users. Flushing out the truth about drugs (PDF)