Lyn Matthews worked as a health researcher in Liverpool’s red light district during the late 1980s – at a time when the city opened the world’s first drug harm reduction service. In January she found herself, a quarter of a century later, back in…
Tag Archive for history
Druglink article 2011 – Born in the USA by Cindy Fazey
Fifty years ago an international treaty consolidated global anti-drug laws and set the framework for the future of drug prohibition. Cindy Fazey charts the development and impact of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Born in the USA (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – House on the hill: Victorian style by Virginia Berridge
Where were Victorians with drink or drug addictions sent to get help? Were they treated or punished? Virginia Berridge takes a look at rehab in the 19th century House on the hill: Victorian style (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – The acid house by Peter Simonson
In the first of a two part look at Britain as a producer of illegal drugs, Peter Simonson revisits the 1970s, when a remote Welsh mansion was home to the world’s biggest LSD factory. The acid house (PDF)
Druglink article 2011 – Order, order by Andrea Wren
Andrea Wren looks back at the history of alcohol regulation in England, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Order, order (PDF)
Druglink obituary 2012 – Professor Griffith Edwards 1928-2012 by John Strang
Griffith’s work flourished at a time when addiction was still a very young science and a subject surrounded by ignorance and stigma. Unhampered by the constraints of the current academic world with its research metrics and h-indexes, Griffith nurtured an imaginative range of studies at the…
Druglink article 2012 – Acid tests by Jeremy Sare
Controlled drugs like opium and cannabis have long documented histories as medicines; morphine is still the gold standard treatment for pain relief. But since the discovery of LSD, the psychedelics too might have their own clinical applications Acid tests (PDF)
Druglink article 2012 – The acid king by Andy Roberts
Without the little-known éminence grise of LSD, Owsley Stanley III, ‘the sixties’ might never have happened. The acid king (PDF)
Druglink supplement 2002 – The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse
The NTA , a special health authority within the NHS, was launched in April 2001 to co-ordinate the drive for better and more consistent treatment for people with drug problems. The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (PDF)
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)