We’ve come a long way since Howard Marks – the drug trade in the nineties is nasty, brutal and short. Here one of Europe’s foremost trafficking experts outlines how and why this is. High times, low company: Global drug trading…
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Druglink article 1998 – Heroin still screws you up – responding to new heroin outbreaks by Roy Egginton, Howard Parker and Catherine Bury
In 1996, with rumours flying around the country, Druglink took another long, hard look at heroin and the fears that ‘smack was back’. Two years on, those rumours have been confirmed by Howard Parker’s widely publicised, disturbing research. Here, for…
Druglink article 1998 – Cannabis cures all? by David Jackson
Many drug services are now perfectly at ease with collecting urine samples from clients and discussing the results with them. Research shows that up to three in five opiate users take cannabis on a regular basis. Could there be another…
Druglink article 1998 – What’s in a sausage? The roots of cannabis prohibition by Harry Shapiro
The law reform lobby has been revitalised in the nineties supported by elements within the body politic, the media, medicine, the police and the judiciary and an unknown but growing proportion of the public. However, most governments, international agencies –…
Druglink article 2014 – 1986: The battle for the right to prescribe – Doctors at war by Mike Ashton
Through the 1970s, consultant psychiatrists in the NHS drug clinics had been moving away from prescribing any injectable drug to oral methadone – and also on a reducing dose basis. But there were still doctors in the community (both private…
Druglink news item 1998 – Orange book signals sweeping changes
If a doctor needs a license to prescribe any drug other than methadone mixture, there will be considerable pressure not to prescribe any other drug. Orange book signals sweeping changes (PDF)
Druglink news item 1998 – Rapid opiate detox out for the count
Following last year’s inquest into the death of Brendan Woolhead while undergoing rapid opiate detoxification, a public debate and a number of recent cases have called into question the basis of such detoxification programmes Rapid opiate detox out for the…
Druglink news item 1997 -Mad cow link to chasing the dragon
The worrying and puzzling link between heroin smoking and mad cow disease has resurfaced with a number of reported cases. Mad cow link to chasing the dragon (PDF)
Druglink article 1997 – A shattered peace: heroin, market forces and the war in Yugoslavia by Roger Lewis
With the first convicted war criminal in Europe for fifty years now behind bars, it is time to review the impact that the Yugoslav war has had on the infamous ‘Balkan route’. Did the war smother the heroin trade, or…
Druglink article 1997 – Substitute prescribing – Social policy or individual treatment? and why we must make the decision by Duncan Raistrick
The Lewisham Citizen’s Jury concluded that methadone was more dangerous than heroin. If the educated public think this, can substitute prescribing have much of a future? Substitute prescribing – Social policy or individual treatment? (PDF) Additional keywords: heroin maintenance /…