This review of a three year project to establish good practice in a probation service explains the difficulty of implementing a harm reduction strategy in the face of services often unattractive to many users and unwilling to cooperate in achieving…
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Druglink article 1992 – Rural HIV prevention by Jan Keene and Gerry Stimson
In rural Wales they’ve had to develop new ways of delivering HIV prevention services. HIV prevention is usually seen as a package of syringe dispersal, disposal, health care and help with drug problems, often based in drug agencies. This has worked well…
Druglink article 1992 – Grant frozen after ministers see ecstasy leaflet
A government grant to Mersey Drug Training and Information Centre has been withheld following a tabloid press storm over the ecstasy information in the centre’s Chill Out leaflet Grant frozen after ministers see ecstasy leaflet (PDF) Additional keywords: newspapers /…
Druglink article 1992 – A researcher reports from the rave by Russell Newcombe
Many thousands of young people take LSD, ecstasy and amphetamine while attending rave dance events. Use is usually occasional and unproblematic but dangers arise from the uncertain composition and strength of the drugs. A minority of ravers take drug cocktails…
Druglink article 1991 – Beyond opiates… and into the 90s by Mark Gilman
The Lifeline Project in Manchester identified a new group of potential clients among young people attending rave dance venues using a range of drugs including ecstasy, LSD and amphetamine. A cartoon leaflet series was tailor made to attract this group.…
Druglink article 1991 – Into the Pleasuredome… by Andrew Fraser, Laura Gamble and Peter Kennett
The ‘Pleasuredome’ is Brighton’s central entertainment area with young people’s clubs, pubs and music venues. An open drug market developed involving cannabis, LSD, ecstasy and amphetamines. Use of these drugs became part of the area’s youth leisure culture and casualties…
Druglink article 1991 – The syringe sharers by Hilary Klee
The ‘inconvenience factor’ involved in attending syringe exchanges or pharmacies means there is a continuing demand for used injecting equipment. Needle exchange attenders may be at the receiving end of this demand. Research in the North West shows that regular exchange…
Druglink article 1991 – No time before I die by Andria Efthimiou
Dying from AIDS, a prescription for smokable heroin could have allowed an addict mother to devote her last months to her daughter. No time before I die (PDF)
Druglink article 1991 – Harm reduction and the under-16s by Jane Goodsir
Judicial decisions on underage contraception can help negotiate the legal minefield of harm reduction work with juveniles. Harm reduction and the under-16s (PDF)
Druglink article 1991 – Syringe exchange: has it worked? by Martin C Donoghoe
It is too early to reliably assess the impact of syringe exchange on HIV levels, but the strategy can be evaluated against other measures. It has been successfully established, reached previously unreached clients, and reduced syringe-sharing due to shortage of…