AIDS and Drugs Misuse part 2 completes the Advisory Council’s review of how HIV is transforming the response to drug misuse in Britain. It is essential reading for anyone who is or might be working with HIV infected drug users.…
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Druglink article 1989 – MDMA in perspective – The speed trip by Harry Shapiro
1988 was the summer of louts and love. The louts drank lager; fun and love came in tablets of MDMA – Ecstasy. Reality and fantasy mixed in a crescendo of press reports about MDMA and Acid house music. Feet on…
Druglink article 1989 – £17 million for drug services in 1989/90
Allocations for the financial year 1989/90 will give health authorities at least £17 million to be spent on drug services – at least double that of last year. £17 million for drug services in 1989/90 (PDF) Additional keywords: government spending…
Druglink article 1989 – Rolleston: The defence of the right to prescribe by Mike Ashton
In British drug history no document has more claim to the term ‘classic’ than the 1926 report of the Rolleston committee. Under pressure from the Home Office the eminent physicians on the committee claimed their right to prescribe – even…
Druglink article 1989 – Syringe exchange 3, Can injectors change? by Gerry Stimson, Kate Dolan, Martin Donoghoe, Lindsey Alldritt and Rachel Lart
In this last of three reports the Monitoring Research Group fills in the bottom line of its study of the Government’s 15 pilot needle exchange schemes. This issue is whether the scheme’s clients reduced their risk of HIV infection by…
Druglink article 1989 – New drug ads focus on sharing
Ad agency Yellowhammer’s graphic approach is deprecated by health educators but backed by government ministers New drug ads focus on sharing (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – A problem of cooperation by Tim Rathbone
A leading backbench spokesman on drug policy says cooperation – between drug agencies and between agencies and government is the key to tackling drug problems. A problem of cooperation (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Going for the money by Jane Goodsir
The Drug Trafficking Offences Act in practice. As the first cases under the Drug Trafficking Offences Act come to court, it’s becoming clear that a wide circle of the defendant’s contacts may be affected. Going for the money (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Serious fun by Russell Newcombe
Drug education through popular culture. Good jokes circulate like wildfire, comics are passed around, pop songs chorused on the way to school. Can young people learn as they laugh? Serious fun (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Relief at £3 million to fight AIDS…
but Scotland given just £300,000 Relief at £3 million to fight AIDS (PDF)