What the political parties said about drugs Election 87 (PDF)
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Druglink article 1987 – State rationed drugs by John Marks
John Marks’s acceptance of a role as purveyor of state-rationed opiates on a ‘maintenance’ basis to addicts determined to continue their addiction, contrasts sharply with anti-maintenance treatment trends elsewhere but he maintains better a live maintained addict than a dead…
Druglink article 1987 – Look before you leap by Roy Robertson
Half the drug injectors at Roy Robertson’s practice in the early 1980s were HIV positive, showing Edinburgh to be one of Europe’s Aids black spots but he believes a panic policy shift back to prescribing is no way to counter…
Druglink article 1987 – The prescribing debate by John Strang
Until recently most doctors were moving quietly away from the long-term ‘maintenance’ prescribing of the ’60s, but disputes within the medical profession and the need to counter the spread of AIDS have brought the prescribing issue back on the policy…
Druglink article 1987 – Aids groups and drugs by Bill Nelles
Drug agencies are apprehensive and unsure about dealing with AIDS; Aids agencies are unsure how to deal with drug users. Bill Nelles, who has had a foot in both camps, believes cooperation is urgently required if drug users are not…
Druglink article 1987 – Drugs and rock by Harry Shapiro
Politicians say they should set an example, but are rock and pop stars good, bad or indifferent in their influence on drug taking? Harry Shapiro surveys the myths and the facts and asks – Who gains from associating popular music…
Druglink article 1987 – Drug wars by President Reagan and Alexander Vlasov
Last October, President Reagan signed the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, describing it as a ‘major victory in our crusade against drugs.’ For Reagan the aim was to achieve ‘nothing less than a drug-free generation’ a contrast to the more modest…
Druglink article 1987 – A cocaine explosion by Colin Hewitt
In January cocaine worth £6 million was seized in Essex and politicians renewed warnings that surplus South American cocaine was set to cause a ‘cocaine explosion’ in Britain. But the UK’s top police drugs investigator believes our defences can withstand…
Druglink article 1987 – Responses to heroin misuse, working togther, by Geoffrey Pearson, Mark Gilman and Shirley McIver
In the spring and summer of 1985 a research team travelled the breadth of northern England and made detailed neighbourhood studies, building a picture of heroin misuse and responses to it in the North. Their report – on which this…
Druglink article 1987 – Needle swop in Mersey by Allan Parry
Drug injecting and personal responsibility may seem incompatible – but in Liverpool drug injectors have not ‘misused’ an experimental needle exchange scheme. Allan Parry describes how a simple exchange scheme can quickly develop an important health education and counselling role.…