Britain’s success in containing the spread HIV since the 1980s is one of its greatest public health achievements. But since then, says Russell Newcombe, our record on harm reduction has been feeble. Injecting new life into harm reduction (PDF)
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Druglink article 2005 – Labour’s ‘eight wasted years’ by Harry Shapiro
The war on drugs has had its supply lines cut because Labour has gone soft on cannabis, has failed to invest in residential rehabs and is not getting enough drug offenders in court. Conservative leader Michael Howard talks to Harry…
Druglink article 2004 – Insite into safer injecting by Neil McKeganey
After the Sydney experiment a safer injecting centre was set up in Vancouver. Neil McKeganey, who believes such sites could benefit the UK, went to see this drug consumption room for himself. Insite into safer injecting (PDF)
Druglink article 2004 – The downside of Eastside by Mike Ashton
Established in 1989, Vancouver’s Eastside needle exchange grew to be the largest in North America, distributing over two million needles and syringes a year. But by 1995, Vancouver’s low rate of HIV infection suddenly tripled within 18 months. Researchers moved…
Druglink article 2010 – Citizen medics by Rosie Mundt-Leach, Siobhan Jackson, Francis Keaney and Alun Morinan
More than one in 20 heroin overdose emergency kits handed out to drug users has been used to counteract an overdose, a study has found. Rosie Mundt-Leach, Siobhan Jackson, Francis Keaney and Alun Morinan report on a unique naloxone kit experiment in south London. Citizen medics…
The ENDS justifies the ends
You would think that a product with the potential to save a billion tobacco-related deaths this century without costing tax-payers a penny would be universally welcomed by governments and the global public health community. You’d be wrong. Startling revelations from…
Druglink article 2003 – Crack harm reduction doesn’t wash by Peter McDermott
I’ve yet to meet a crack user who feels that they ever made any improvement until they became abstinent. Crack harm reduction doesn’t wash (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – From abstinence to harm reduction: parallel tracks or a road less travelled? by Peter Martin
Peter Martin argues that far from being mutually exclusive, abstinence and harm reduction should be seen as part of the same continuum From abstinence to harm reduction: parallel tracks or a road less travelled? (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – More than a pipe dream – reducing crack’s harm by Mat Southwell
As crack comes in from the margins, its reputation as a demon drug grows. Even some staunch harm reductionists believe the grip of this drug is so pernicious that the only strategy is abstinence. More than a pipe dream –…
Druglink article 2003 – Snakes and ladders: five years inside government drug policy by Mike Trace
Mike Trace has worked in the drugs field for nearly 20 years, most recently as the deputy drug czar and head of performance at the National Treatment Agency. At the end of last year, he was appointed chief of the…