More crack users are injecting, risking serious health problems. Crack injection (PDF)
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Druglink article 1992 – Adjusting to steroid users by Harry Shapiro
Steroid users are increasingly turning to needle exchanges for injecting equipment, advice and health checks, particularly in areas with a large bodybuilding population. Exchanges have had to adjust to this new client group in terms of information provision and delivery.…
Druglink article 1992 – A well-steroid user clinic by Kathryn Williamson, Meurig Davies and Andrew McBride
A drug team’s experience of running a specialist needle exchange scheme for steroid users. A well-steroid user clinic (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – No more junkie heroes? by Mark Gilman
Keeping opiate users in a therapeutic cul-de-sac may be a price worth paying. No more junkie heroes? (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – Rural HIV prevention by Jan Keene and Gerry Stimson
In rural Wales they’ve had to develop new ways of delivering HIV prevention services. HIV prevention is usually seen as a package of syringe dispersal, disposal, health care and help with drug problems, often based in drug agencies. This has worked well…
Druglink article 1991 – The syringe sharers by Hilary Klee
The ‘inconvenience factor’ involved in attending syringe exchanges or pharmacies means there is a continuing demand for used injecting equipment. Needle exchange attenders may be at the receiving end of this demand. Research in the North West shows that regular exchange…
Druglink article 1991 – The smoking option by John Marks, Andrew Palombella and Russell Newcombe
For two years Mersey drug dependency units (DDUs) have been prescribing heroin to opiate injectors to encourage them to move away from injecting. Smokable cocaine and amphetamine are also prescribed. Smoking stimulates the ‘rush’ from injecting and may be suitable…
Druglink article 1991 – Syringe exchange: has it worked? by Martin C Donoghoe
It is too early to reliably assess the impact of syringe exchange on HIV levels, but the strategy can be evaluated against other measures. It has been successfully established, reached previously unreached clients, and reduced syringe-sharing due to shortage of…
Druglink article 1991 – Britain’s first syringe vending machine now available
The Lifeline Project in Manchester is making the country’s first syringe vending machine available to other agencies as an alternative or supplement to needle exchange schemes. Britain’s first syringe vending machine now available (PDF)
Druglink article 1990 – Reaching the hard to reach by Tim Rhodes, Janet Holland, Richard Hartnoll, Ann Johnson and Sara Jones
Outreach strategies in the USA, Netherlands and UK tend either to be treatment oriented or to aim for safer injecting. These should be seen as complementary objectives both capable of reducing HIV transmission. Providing services ‘on the street’ rather than…