It was in 1981 that the link was first made in the USA between injecting drug use and the risk of contracting HIV, with the first UK drug-related infections reported in Scotland in 1983. From this was born the notion…
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Druglink article 1997 – Shoot-out in Germany: Prisons take charge by Jacob Jutta and Heino Stover
The number of injecting drug users is rapidly reaching crisis proportions in German prisons Shoot-out in Germany: Prisons take charge (PDF)
Druglink article 1996 – The better-travelled treatment tourist: service overlap among heroin and cocaine users by John Strang, Michael Gossop, Beverly Powis and Paul Griffiths
In the last decade, there has been an unprecedented growth in the number and diversity of drug services. Needle / syringe exchanges and street agencies now provide services alongside the more traditional drug clinics. Interviews with community samples of 408…
Druglink article 1995 – What is sharing? by Stephen Green
Are we double-counting the number of people at risk from sharing injecting equipment? What is sharing? (PDF)
Druglink article 1994 – Steroids: use, users and responses by Pirkko Korkia and Gerry Stimson
Steroids are used by many men and to a lesser extent women involved in sport. In some areas they form a significant part of the needle exchange’s caseload. There is concern over the effects of some steroids and little is…
Druglink article 1994 – You say ‘sharing’, I say… by Neil Hunt, Howard Shelley and Keith Jones
Research in Maidstone has revealed that drug users have different definitions of ‘sharing’. Practices that could spread HIV may not be seen as posing a risk. This impedes agencies’ and clients’ risk-assessment and harm reduction efforts. Beliefs about HIV and its…
Druglink article 1994 – Speed on prescription by Richard Pates
In many parts of the country amphetamine use is widespread and much more common than opiate use. The drug is injected and used widely in the sex industry. Risks of injecting-related damage and of HIV and hepatitis spread are considerable…
Druglink article 1994 – Mobilising subcultural change by Sam Friedman
Most drug injectors know about most HIV related risks. Further significant risk reduction will be achieved not through education but through subcultural change. This involves mobilising and organising members of a drug scene to make changes for themselves and to…
Druglink factsheet 1993 – Temazepam misuse
What is Temazepam? What are its effects? What are the risks? and more… Druglink factsheet 3: Temazepam misuse (PDF)
Druglink article 1993 – Hepatitis C: time to wake up by Tom Waller and Roger Holmes
As many as half the drug injectors in Britain may be infected with hepatitis C, a virus which can lead to cirrhosis and fatal liver cancer. Treatment is successful in only a minority of cases. As with HIV, the body’s…