Over the past two decades Lifeline’s publications have caused hilarity and outrage in equal measure. Director of Communications Mike Linnell on the moral dilemmas of getting harm reduction messages across to drug users. Flushing out the truth about drugs (PDF)
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Druglink article 2004 – Drug wars at the chalk face by Blaine Stothard
Tactics used by schools to warn of the dangers of drugs have veered from ‘Just Say No’ in the 1980s to Blueprint in 2004. Blaine Stothard examines the history of changing trends in drug education. Drug wars at the chalk face…
Druglink article 2004 – More, better and fairer: the state of the notion by Sara McGrail
In a hard-hitting analysis, Sara McGrail, former Assistant Director of Programme Implementation at the NTA, explores the extent to which the NTA’s mission statement delivers to the treatment and crime aims of the National Drugs Strategy and makes the case…
Druglink article 2004 – Echoes from the street by Max Daly
The 1970s era of female dealers, DIY harm reduction and the baton-wielding Special Patrol Group (SPG) was a very different one to the pizza-style deliveries, labyrinthine drug services and violence of 21st century drug culture. Max Daly talks to Rick…
Druglink article 2004 – The ticket that exploded by Marcus Roberts
Taking drugs in the 1960s and 1970s was supposed to be about opening doors of perception. But, says Marcus Roberts, this was always a delusion, and when the doors didn’t open, recreational drug use became just another aspect of the…
Druglink article 2004 – Up up and away by Dominic Streatfeild, Viv Craske, Tim Bottomley and Russell Newcombe
History of stimulants: Do the white thing Powder cocaine is fast rivalling cannabis as the socially acceptable drug of choice. Crack, its rock-form offspring, is giving heroin a run for its money as the socially unacceptable drug of choice. Waves…
Druglink article 2004 – Creation of an opium giant by Jason Burke
In 15 years, Afghanistan has become a global poppy farm, producing three quarters of the world’s opium. Jason Burke, chief reporter of the Observer, on a country that has become synonymous with the illegal heroin market Creation of an opium…
Druglink article 2004 – Operation Julie: the day acid reigned by Harry Shapiro
Two major LSD factories were operating in the UK supplying a worldwide market under the noses of the police, until a DI from Thames Valley drug squad became curious. What happened next helped revolutionised the policing of drugs. Operation Julie:…
Druglink article 2004 – Haunted house by Mike Trace
The thorny issue of drug policy has a history of causing fear and panic among government ministers. So have things changed? Mike Trace, former deputy drug czar, with the inside story on how politicians are slowly learning to make sense…
Druglink article 2004 – Beware: stoned hippies at large by Alan Travis
As newspapers spooked the public with stories of cannabis-crazed hippies and glue sniffing kids, the real drug problem in 1974 was Britain’s love affair with sleeping pills. Alan Travis, The Guardian’s home affairs editor, looks back at the media’s treatment…