How far do syringe exchange scheme clients need to change to avoid the risk of HIV infection, and how difficult will it be to achieve these changes? By extension, the answers suggest the dimensions of the task facing Britain’s attempt to…
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Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange: the Liverpool experience by Janette Carr and Steve Dalton
Mersey’s regional drug training and information centre runs one of the busiest syringe exchange schemes in Britain. Soon after opening, staff found they had to make controversial decisions about how far to go in making the scheme attractive to injectors and…
Druglink article 1988 – Syringe exchange 1 by Gerry Stimson, Kate Dolan, Martin Donoghoe and Lindsay Alldritt
Last June a government-funded project began evaluating the work of 15 syringe exchange schemes. The results will influence the fate of needle exchange schemes throughout Britain. This first report is about whether the schemes are working in ways that attract…
Druglink article 1988 – HIV top priority says official ACMD report
Government rejects call for more money to fight AIDS in drug users. This article also looks at what the ACMD report on Aids and Drug Misuse says and the government response to the report. HIV top priority says official ACMD…
Druglink article 1988 – User friendliness key to attracting clients
Preliminary research findings suggest government-sponsored needle exchange schemes are seeing a high proportion of clients at risk of HIV infection through sharing injecting equipment. User friendliness key to attracting clients (PDF)
Druglink article from 1987 – Don’t inject AIDS
Photos and words from the government’s £5 million anti-AIDS media campaign. Most ads appeared in youth specific media. Don’t inject AIDS (PDF)
Druglink article from 1987 – ‘Overwhelmed’ needle exchange schemes close down
Pilot needle exchange schemes north of the border have run into serious problems. The three Dundee schemes have all closed while Glasgow’s scheme has been picketed by local residents. ‘Overwhelmed’ needle exchange schemes close down (PDF)
Druglink article from 1987 – Temazepam creates new ‘barb-freaks’
Concern is rising over the use of the benzodiazepine sleeping pill Temazepam. Temazepam creates new ‘barb-freaks’ (PDF)
Druglink article from 1987 – Gloves off in anti-injecting campaign
Advertising agency TBWA achieve a triple entendre in this deliberately risque youth press ad, part of the new government commissioned joint anti-injecting anti-drug campaign. TBWA managing director Sammy Harari explained that market research showed if an ad is a bit…
Druglink article 1987 – Look before you leap by Roy Robertson
Half the drug injectors at Roy Robertson’s practice in the early 1980s were HIV positive, showing Edinburgh to be one of Europe’s Aids black spots but he believes a panic policy shift back to prescribing is no way to counter…