Heroin users helped trace the source of a mysterious spate of deaths. Solved by the grapevine (PDF)
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Druglink article 1992 – Drug user deaths up tenfold in Glasgow
‘Virtual unavailability’ of methadone blamed for the deaths in Scotland. Drug user deaths up tenfold in Glasgow (PDF)
Overdose
What is an Overdose? Drug overdoses can be accidental or intentional. They occur when a person takes more than the medically recommended dose of a drug or more than their body has developed a tolerance for. Some people may be…
Naloxone
What is Naloxone? Naloxone is a medicine which can temporarily reverse the effects of an overdose caused by opiates and opioids such as heroin, methadone, morphine, codeine or buprenorphine. The main life-threatening effect of opiates is to slow down and…
Heroin and other opiates
Boy, brown, china white, dragon, gear, H, horse, junk, skag, smack, diamorphine, morphine, methadone, opium, codeine, pethidine, dihydrocodeine (DF118), palfium, diconal, temgesic, physeptone What is heroin? Heroin (diamorphine) is one of a group of drugs called ‘opiates’. These drugs are…
Opioid analgesics
(Note: For Tramadol information specifically please the DrugWatch Tramadol factsheet DrugWatch are an informal online professional network established by a group of professionals working in the UK and Irish drugs sector, including DrugWise.) An analgesic is a pain-killing drug. There…