Developments in the countries around Afghanistan have led to the expansion of less regulated ‘northern’ trafficking routes Getting to market: Trafficking takes it easy (PDF)
Tag Archive for heroin
Druglink letter 2001 – Alternatives to licensing doctors
Recent proposals to license doctors who treat drug users with controlled drugs other than oral methadone mixture, will deter doctors from working in this area. THis was excatle why a similar licensing proposal was rejected in 1984. Alternatives to licensing…
Druglink article 2013 – A Tripp down memory lane by Harry Shapiro
The prescribing habits of a handful of London doctors led to what some have described as the beginning of the end for the ‘British System’. A Tripp down memory lane (PDF)
Druglink news item 2013 – Foiled again by Max Daly
Government still dragging its feet over foil. On the 10th November 2010, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) submitted a detailed report to the Home Secretary Theresa May on the provision of foil as a harm reduction intervention for drug services. It recommended…
Druglink article 2000 – Supporting intervention: ethics in research by Jo Apply, David Pyle and Geoff Wootton
A study by the US Institute for Defense Analysis attempted to look at how intervention close to the source of cocaine influences availability, ignoring whether the threat of drugs justifies the sometimes extreme actions involved. Druglink asked three commentators for…
Druglink news item 2013 – Poppy daze by Harry Shapiro
Media interpretation of the implications of the current bumper opium crop in Afghanistan is flawed. Poppy daze (PDF)
Druglink Findings 2013 – Costs of failure to offer maintenance prescribing in prisons
An international team of experts led by Dagmar Hedrich of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has argued that failure to implement effective opioid maintenance in prisons represents an important and possibly costly missed opportunity to engage high-risk drug users in treatment. Costs of failure…
Druglink article 2000 – Out of Africa – In to trafficking by Axel Klein
The rise of the Nigerian global trafficking syndicates Out of Africa – In to trafficking (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – New age austerity highs by Steve Wakeman and Toby Seddon
In the 1980s heroin use rocketed alongside spiralling deprivation. So why, now we have returned to an era of austerity, is heroin use falling? New age austerity highs (PDF) Additional keywords: Prebagabalin
Druglink news item 2013 – All the dope that’s fit to print by Harry Shapiro
Recent warnings about strong heroin raises concerns about impact. All the dope that’s fit to print (PDF)