The number of people admitted to A&E after taking cocaine is rising. Sam Hart reports on how hospitals are dealing with cocaine overdoses. Crossing the line (PDF)
Tag Archive for overdose
Druglink article 2001 – Don’t overdo it: Overdose prevention and extent By Joanne Neale
The extent of illicit drug overdose and strategies for prevention. Don’t overdo it: Overdose prevention and extent (PDF)
Druglink news item 2005 – Wake up to take-home naloxone by Harry Shapiro
A change in medical law in June which allowed anybody to administer injectable naloxone will help save many lives. But why has it taken so long? Wake up to take-home naloxone (PDF)
Druglink article 2010 – High tide by Andy McNicoll
Shetland’s remote but affluent island communities are facing up to the reality that, unlike the rest of Britain, rising numbers of young people are taking up heroin. Three years ago, the 22,000 members of Shetland’s close-knit community – who inhabit a string of 15…
Druglink article 2010 – Coming of age by Chris Drouet
Chris Drouet, writer and co-founder of drug user magazine Black Poppy, died of a drug overdose at his London flat in December. His death, aged 60, was a surprise to those who knew him – he had built up a tolerance to opiates after decades of…
Druglink article 2010 – Citizen medics by Rosie Mundt-Leach, Siobhan Jackson, Francis Keaney and Alun Morinan
More than one in 20 heroin overdose emergency kits handed out to drug users has been used to counteract an overdose, a study has found. Rosie Mundt-Leach, Siobhan Jackson, Francis Keaney and Alun Morinan report on a unique naloxone kit experiment in south London. Citizen medics…
Druglink news item – Prison’s opiate reduction regime ‘endangered lives’ by Max Daly
A prison’s attempt to reduce high levels of opiate prescribing resulted in an “unsafe” drug treatment regime which led to inmates being put on suicide watch and others at risk of overdose, a report by the prisons watchdog has revealed. The findings by HM Inspectorate of Prisons…
Druglink article 2012 – Seize the moment by Dr Karim Dar and Dr Raquin Cherian
Despite dramatic representation in films, heroin withdrawal is not inherently life-threatening. Not so with alcohol. Workers need to be aware of all the issues, as detoxing from alcohol is no simple matter. Seize the moment (PDF)
Druglink article 2002 – Thinking inside the box: designing information for homeless drug injectors by Mike Linnell
Lifeline is best known, damned and praised for its publications. The design process always starts with talking to the target audience and then carries on talking to them right through to the end product. Mike Linnell describes Lifeline’s latest and…
Druglink article 2014 – Smack is back… but not here by Max Daly
The recent death of Phillip Seymour Hoffman has shed light on what appears to be a new heroin epidemic in America. Heroin use is on the wane in Britain. The battle against a drug that blighted many impoverished areas in the 1980s and 1990s…