From time to time, we will be featuring guest blogs. Our first one is from Dr Axel Klein from Kent University and Editor of Drugs and Alcohol Today. Consensus on Outcome Documents and centrality of drug convention is reached, but…
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Druglink article 1994 – The power of persuasion by Mike Ashton
Unpaid, perhaps anachronistic, but over the last 15 years, highly effective, since its inception in 1972 the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has become the single most influential body in British drug policy and practice – all…
Druglink article 1994 – The reactionary radicals by John Melville
Heavy end drug services are being sliced in the name of progress. Opinion formers in the drugs field switch from one ‘progressive’ idea to the next. The reactionary radicals (PDF)
Druglink article 1994 – AIDS and drug policy: Revolution or revision by Virginia Berridge
The growth of concern over drug-related HIV spread in the mid-80s served to lend political acceptability to and extend pre-existing policy trends towards harm reduction approaches and away from seeing addiction as a medical disease. Paradoxically this public health concern…
Druglink article 1994 – Only way – or no way? by Harry Shapiro
Drug law reform has re-emerged on the international and domestic policy agendas. More drug use by younger people and the connection with crime have taken the debate beyond cannabis. International conventions allow countries to impose only minor penalties for possession.…
Druglink article 1993 – The welfare economics of law reform by Andrew Clark
An economist weighs up the pros and cons of legalisation. The welfare impact of legalising prohibited drugs would be a combination of the impact on the enjoyment of drug use, harm from drugs and from the illegal market, drug-related crime,…
Druglink article 1992 – The drug war – signs of a tactical retreat? by Peter Mason
Crime prevention initiatives are leading a tentative retreat from the War on Drugs. The drug war – signs of a tactical retreat? (PDF)
Druglink article 1992 – Grant frozen after ministers see ecstasy leaflet
A government grant to Mersey Drug Training and Information Centre has been withheld following a tabloid press storm over the ecstasy information in the centre’s Chill Out leaflet Grant frozen after ministers see ecstasy leaflet (PDF) Additional keywords: newspapers /…
Druglink article 1992 – A guide to working with schools by Robin Burgess
Requests for help from schools reacting to a drug-related incident can be an opportunity for drug agencies to establish constructive procedures that avoid stigmatising pupils but make help available to those who needs it. Involving all parties from the LEA…
Druglink article 1992 – The state of the market by Peter Mason
The purchaser-provider split is meant to open the health market to independent (private and voluntary) but this movement is hampered by confusion between health and social care costs and by ‘steady state’ policies which favour NHS units. Fixed payment contracts…