Pregnant heroin users are expected to cut their drug consumption. But is this always how they react to motherhood? Heroin use and pregnancy (PDF)
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Druglink article 1993 – Back to the future by Mark Gilman
If today’s rave generation turns to heroin, how should services respond? Back to the future (PDF)
Druglink article 1993 – Solved by the grapevine by Clive Brind, Anthony Farrington and Andrew Fraser
Heroin users helped trace the source of a mysterious spate of deaths. Solved by the grapevine (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – No more junkie heroes? by Mark Gilman
Keeping opiate users in a therapeutic cul-de-sac may be a price worth paying. No more junkie heroes? (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – Drug user deaths up tenfold in Glasgow
‘Virtual unavailability’ of methadone blamed for the deaths in Scotland. Drug user deaths up tenfold in Glasgow (PDF)
Druglink article 1991 – Supply and demand: lessons from Poland by Peggy Watson
The recent history of opiate use in Poland provides a ‘natural experiment’ which can help disentangle the relative contributions made by supply and demand forces to levels of drug use. In Poland demand first developed in the absence of supply…
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 – The smoking option by John Marks, Andrew Palombella and Russell Newcombe
For two years Mersey drug dependency units (DDUs) have been prescribing heroin to opiate injectors to encourage them to move away from injecting. Smokable cocaine and amphetamine are also prescribed. Smoking stimulates the ‘rush’ from injecting and may be suitable…
Druglink article 1991 – From addiction to control by Henk Van Bilsen and Brian Whitehead
Motivational interviewing as a technique for leading the sceptical heroin addict towards self-control. Although behavioural self-control training has proven to be one of the most effective methods for creating change in addictive behaviours, it is not as widely used as…
Druglink article 1990 – The cost of prescribing by Mike Smith
Using methadone to attract and maintain clients may make good anti HIV sense – but who is going to pay the drug bill? The cost of prescribing (PDF) Additional keywords: budgets / costs / methadone maintenance