A study in 1972-76 randomly allocated heroin addicts seeking a heroin prescription into two groups, one prescribed injectable heroin, the other only oral methadone. Twelve months later many more of the heroin group were still in treatment but more were…
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Druglink article 1990 – The politics of anti-drug campaigns by Tim Rhodes
Government anti-drugs campaigns have attempted to address non-users as well as users. But images and messages that successfully deter non-users may simply have alienated drug users, making them less responsive to official sources of help and information. The latest campaign…
Druglink article 1990 – The limits of intervention by Geoffrey Pearson, Mark Gilman and Paul Traynor
How travel sickness tablets forced workers to face the fact that sometimes there’s little you can do. The limits of intervention (PDF) Additional keywords: Cyclizine / Diconal / Temgesic / Scotland
Druglink article 1990 – Ways to open the surgery door by Tom Waller
Why rejecting special payments for GPs may jeopardise our whole AIDS programme Expanding specialist services cannot fulfill the urgent need for greater medical involvement in drug treatment and HIV prevention. Mass participation by GPs can, but this means reversing the effects…
Druglink article 1989 – Syringe exchange 3, Can injectors change? by Gerry Stimson, Kate Dolan, Martin Donoghoe, Lindsey Alldritt and Rachel Lart
In this last of three reports the Monitoring Research Group fills in the bottom line of its study of the Government’s 15 pilot needle exchange schemes. This issue is whether the scheme’s clients reduced their risk of HIV infection by…
Druglink article 1989 – Cost-effectiveness is not a dirty word by James Les Kay
A ‘very modest proposal’ says the author. Others may see it as an unholy descent from saving lives to saving money. Welfare benefit gained per £ spent is the issue. Outreach work is the example. Cost-effectiveness is not a dirty word…
Druglink article 1989 – New drug ads focus on sharing
Ad agency Yellowhammer’s graphic approach is deprecated by health educators but backed by government ministers New drug ads focus on sharing (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Groups for HIV positive drug users by Bill Nelles
Some drug users at risk of or with HIV/AIDS have been doubly let down: first by drug services; second by the gay self-help groups they turned to when the services failed to respond. Now groups are being formed by and…
Druglink article 1988 – Wraps against AIDS by Andrew Fraser
How can you bring the anti-AIDS message before drug users each time they take drugs? Brighton’s Drug Advice and Information Service found a novel solution. Wraps against AIDS (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe hygiene by Anthony Ellam
‘Bleach out, boiling in’ was Druglink’s summary of the DHSS’s latest advice on syringe hygiene. Now new work at the Public Health Laboratory Service has led the DHSS to refer the whole problem back to the experts. Tony Ellam of…