Why a world economy that gives us cheap coffee also gives us cocaine. The rapid decline in raw commodity prices and accumulation of foreign debt in developing countries in the 1980s lies behind the escalating illicit drug production and trafficking…
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Druglink article 1990 – Prescribing heroin: does it work? by Martin Mitcheson and Richard Hartnoll
A study in 1972-76 randomly allocated heroin addicts seeking a heroin prescription into two groups, one prescribed injectable heroin, the other only oral methadone. Twelve months later many more of the heroin group were still in treatment but more were…
Druglink article 1990 – Parents self-help in Mersey by Howard Parker and Loraine Donelly
Parents devastated by heroin use in the family speak about which services helped most. Research among parents of heroin users found a high degree of shock and distress. Parents felt the probation service was most help as it included them in…
Druglink article 1990 – The politics of anti-drug campaigns by Tim Rhodes
Government anti-drugs campaigns have attempted to address non-users as well as users. But images and messages that successfully deter non-users may simply have alienated drug users, making them less responsive to official sources of help and information. The latest campaign…
Druglink article 1990 – The limits of intervention by Geoffrey Pearson, Mark Gilman and Paul Traynor
How travel sickness tablets forced workers to face the fact that sometimes there’s little you can do. The limits of intervention (PDF) Additional keywords: Cyclizine / Diconal / Temgesic / Scotland
Druglink article 1990 – New treatments for opiate dependence by Colin Brewer
For some opiate addicts the usual oral methadone regimes are inappropriate or ineffective. Alternative regimes are available. Injectable methadone ampoules can now be labelled to help prevent diversion. Long-acting substitutes for methadone and drugs that block the effects of opiates…
Druglink article 1990 – Nursing by rote by David Richards
Despite the rhetoric, is it still fit in or get out in Britain’s inpatient drug units? Nursing by rote (PDF)
Druglink article 1990 – How normal is normal? by Brian Pearson
It is mistaken to conclude that today’s heroin users are all non-deviant and psychologically ‘normal’ simply because there are more of them. Continuing social sanctions and disapproval are as likely now as in the past to have negative psychological effects…
Druglink article 1989 – Motivating change by Keith Bolton and Robert Watt
At Northern Road clinic in Portsmouth, methadone pulls in the clients and ‘motivational interviewing’ helps nudge them to move away from drugs. Motivating change (PDF) Additional keywords: counselling / motivation / Prochaska / DiClemente / Process of change model /…
Druglink article 1989 – A low threshold methadone programme by Philip Fleming
Flexible, accessible, attractive – that’s what government and their advisers say addiction clinics should be to counter HIV. At Northern Road they’ve thrown out the waiting lists and detoxification timetables and let the clients set the goals. A low threshold…