Building on an existing outreach initiative, the Wirral Drugs Service developed an HIV peer education project among drug using women working as prostitutes. Education/training sessions were followed by a residential weekend. An assessment suggested the project successfully engaged the women…
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Druglink article 1994 – Buzzwords: an HIV outreach glossary by Tim Rhodes and Gerry Stimson
Outreach has a long and varied history in health promotion and other community interventions. Some of the key concepts from those spheres are only now being incorporated into the language of HIV outreach in the UK. Central to these developments…
Druglink article 1993 – Crew 2000 Peer coalition in action by Peter McDermott and Willie McBride
In Edinburgh, drug users and local young people together with drug workers have formed a coalition to inform their peers about drugs and have focused initially on the local club scene. Their experience of the use of Temazepam by club…
Druglink article 1993 – More than just a number by Phil Coles and Richard Pates
Outreach workers can use community resources to reach far more drug users than they could directly contact. In South Glamorgan workers attend unemployed drop in groups and youth clubs. They educate staff and residents at a hostel for the homeless…
Druglink factsheet 1993 – User to user by Keith Bolton and Annette Walling
Street corner style outreach was inappropriate in a rural area where drug dealing and drug use take place behind closed doors in flats and houses. In response a team of volunteer outreach workers was recruited and trained, many themselves former…
Druglink factsheet 1993 – The personal touch by Peter McDermott
Qualifications do not an outreach worker maketh – it takes the personal touch. The personal touch (PDF)
Druglink article 1993 – Outreach on the front line by Lyn Matthews
Crack was first reported in Liverpool in 1987. By mid 1998 crack use was prevalent among the city’s prostitutes. An outreach worker describes how by the end of 1988 there was concern that the women accepted higher risk sex to…
Druglink article 1992 – A researcher reports from the rave by Russell Newcombe
Many thousands of young people take LSD, ecstasy and amphetamine while attending rave dance events. Use is usually occasional and unproblematic but dangers arise from the uncertain composition and strength of the drugs. A minority of ravers take drug cocktails…
Druglink article 1992 – Responding to recreational drug use by Peter McDermott, Alan Matthews and Andrew Bennett
Outreach interventions developed to reach injectors are inappropriate in noisy nightclubs whose customers are there for fun, not counselling. Drug information workers in Mersey instead devised a campaign drawing on the images, materials and distribution mechanisms associated with club culture…
Druglink article 1991 – Out on your own:making solo outreach work by Keith Bolton and Sue Selleck
An account is given of the tactics used to increase the effectiveness of drugs outreach work in an area with only a single employed outreach worker. Although reassuring for the worker, too close an association with office-based services was counter-productive and…