Lifeline is best known, damned and praised for its publications. The design process always starts with talking to the target audience and then carries on talking to them right through to the end product. Mike Linnell describes Lifeline’s latest and…
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Druglink article 2002 – Dissolving drugs: harm reduction in a sachet? by Jon Derricott and Andrew Preston
In October 2001 the authors began producing and selling single use sachets of citric acid for injecting drug users. Here they explain why they did it, their experiences to date and some of the issues that remain in the supply…
Druglink news item 2002 – Botulism in heroin fear
The Public Health Laboratory has reported three suspected and one confirmed case of wound botulism among injecting drug users. Botulism in heroin fear (PDF)
Druglink article 2001 – Needle in a haystack: rural injecting by Noel Craine, Mark Walker, Tom Carnwath and Hilary Klee
Safer injecting in rural areas is not easy; geography, local businesses and the closeness of communities can all cause problems. Needle in a haystack: rural injecting (PDF) Additional keywords: needle exchange
Druglink article 2013 – Meph lining by Michael Bird
In Romania, following a switch from heroin to legal highs among injecting drug users, new cases of HIV have boomed. Meph lining (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – New York Notes: The loneliness of the addict activist by Maia Szalavitz
It’s hard to convey the sense of crisis felt by people using intravenous drugs and facing AIDS in the early ‘90s: in New York, at least half of needle users were already infected – at least 100,000 people – and there was no treatment, let alone…
Druglink article 2013 – Greek tragedy by Max Daly
Still reeling from an HIV epidemic among injecting drug users, Greece is now dealing with a low-grade methamphetamine called ‘sisa’, that has joined heroin as the drug of choice for the country’s destitute population. Max Daly reports on a drug scene being shaped by…
Druglink article 1999 – A stab in the dark: alcohol swabs as education tools by Julie Macrow
Why are sterets given to injecting drug users and how are they supposed to be used? A stab in the dark: alcohol swabs as education tool (PDF)
Druglink article 2014 – Dane law by Blaine Stothard
It took 35 years of campaigning for the authorities to accept drug consumption rooms in Denmark. Could it happen in the UK? Dane law (PDF)
Druglink article 1999 – Getting the point across: a cheap, effective, brief intervention to reduce injecting by Neil Hunt, Garry Stillwell and Paul Griffiths
Since the 1980s, targeted interventions with injecting drug users have largely involved secondary prevention strategies intended to reduce the risk of HIV and make injecting less harmful, rather than primary prevention work that reduces the numbers transitioning to injecting. The…