Eight years ago Peter Mason predicted that market forces would fragment drug services and called for a minimum standard framework. What the intervening years have shown us is that the NHS internal market has failed to establish a special case…
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Druglink supplement 1998 – Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) Drug misuse and the environment: a summary
The ACMD has produced this report because it feels that the world in which individual lives has been neglected when considering how to tackle drug misuse. Efforts have tended to concentrate on enforcement and treatment of the individual rather than…
Druglink article 1998 – Ostriches, owls and all points between – involving parents in drug education by Kevin White
Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain gives parents a “key role” in terms of reinforcing the drug education message. But what about Parents themselves? If they aren’t confident in their understanding of drugs, what can we hope to get…
Druglink new item 1998 – Butane industry holds its breath
A report from the laboratory of the government chemist, now with the DTI, could cause a major upset in the multi-million pound lighter fuel industry. Butane industry holds its breath (PDF)
Druglink article 1998 – The new orthodoxy: harm reduction goes AWOL by Andria Efthimiou-Mordaunt
It was the drug field’s big idea of the last decade. But just as it is gaining the international recognition it has deserved, we’re getting worrying reports from the good ship harm reduction. It’s perhaps time to ask – what’s…
Druglink article 1998 – Looking for clues – does the strategy stand up to scrutiny? by Roger Paxton
With Tackling Drugs Together up for renewal, it’s about time to look at the evidence for the original’s aims and objectives. For, without evidence, it is unlikely that any policy – let alone a strategy – will get off the…
Druglink article 1998 – Czar czar galore by Oswin Baker
They’ve effectively been in post for three months and even the most hardened cynics have their wishlists for them to tackle. But what exactly does it mean to be UK Anti-Drugs Coordinator or his deputy? What do Keith Hellawell and…
Druglink article 1997 – Making sense of intelligence by Nicholas Dorn
Responding to Men in Black, ISDD’s Nicholas Dorn says that integrating the voices of the intelligence agencies into the formation of a UK drug strategy will be a challenge and an opportunity for the new Drug Czar. Making sense of…
Druglink article 1997 – Men in black by Gerry Rice and Terry Thomas
Britain’s intelligence services are now involved in the ‘war on drugs’ to an unprecedented degree. This has led to tensions with the police and the National Criminal Intelligence Service, despite the partnership which the 1996 Security Service Act formalised. Behind…
Druglink article 1997 – Northern Ireland: the story so far by Rob Phipps
The political and peace processes of the last few years in Northern Ireland have seen a strengthening of resolve to tackle the province’s growing drug problem. Earlier this year, the RUC made Northern Ireland’s first crack seizure, and in the…