Most drug injectors know about most HIV related risks. Further significant risk reduction will be achieved not through education but through subcultural change. This involves mobilising and organising members of a drug scene to make changes for themselves and to…
Tag Archive for harm reduction
Druglink article 1994 – AIDS and drug policy: Revolution or revision by Virginia Berridge
The growth of concern over drug-related HIV spread in the mid-80s served to lend political acceptability to and extend pre-existing policy trends towards harm reduction approaches and away from seeing addiction as a medical disease. Paradoxically this public health concern…
Druglink factsheet 1994 – Beyond the basics by Andrew Preston
A simple model of human needs can help structure your work when it moves beyond the harm reduction basics. Beyond the basics (PDF)
Druglink article 1993 – Crew 2000 Peer coalition in action by Peter McDermott and Willie McBride
In Edinburgh, drug users and local young people together with drug workers have formed a coalition to inform their peers about drugs and have focused initially on the local club scene. Their experience of the use of Temazepam by club…
Druglink article 1993 – A smack in the eye by Rowdy Yates
Part 3 of a personal history of the Lifeline Project in Manchester A smack in the eye (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – Adjusting to steroid users by Harry Shapiro
Steroid users are increasingly turning to needle exchanges for injecting equipment, advice and health checks, particularly in areas with a large bodybuilding population. Exchanges have had to adjust to this new client group in terms of information provision and delivery.…
Druglink article 1992 – A well-steroid user clinic by Kathryn Williamson, Meurig Davies and Andrew McBride
A drug team’s experience of running a specialist needle exchange scheme for steroid users. A well-steroid user clinic (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – Opportunities in prison by Mike Trace
A significant proportion of prisoners have experienced drug problems and may continue to use drugs in prison in ways that risk HIV transmission. Recent official prison policy documents have encouraged contact between prisons, prisoners and drug agencies in the community.…
Druglink article 1992 – Drug training in the United Kingdom by Gary Easthope
Following recommendations made by the ACMD in 1982 the government’s Central Funding Initiative funded the setting up of several regional specialist drug training units in the period 1983-1987. Lack of central planning meant these were patchily distributed and varied in…
Druglink article 1992 – Barriers to safer sex by Caroline Cupitt, Geraldine Mulleady, Keith Philips and David White
Why condom availability doesn’t lead to safer sex. Barriers to safer sex (PDF)