According to the official statistics, the number of problematic heroin users has fallen for the first time across the UK. Yet Swansea appears to be bucking the trend, where according to one user, it’s ‘more hassle to buy a packet of fags’ than…
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Druglink article 2000 – Traffic targets: supply strategies by Nicholas Dorn
The UK spends more on drug enforcement than on demand reduction while knowing little about effectiveness. Could better understanding and greater effectiveness in anti – trafficking take pressure off drug users. Traffic targets: supply strategies (PDF)
Druglink article 2000 – Regaining lost youth: youth workers success with drug users by John Bradshaw
The broad, comprehensive approach of Leeds City Council youth workers developed relationships with socially excluded young people that drug workers find difficult to establish. Regaining lost youth: youth workers success with drug users (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – Blanket drink guidelines are hard to swallow by Andy Stonard
Are ‘units’ and ‘sensible’ drinking levels a good way of getting across alcohol harm reduction messages? Andy Stonard on how a more nuanced information campaign, where the public is enabled to self-assess risk, can yield better results. Blanket drink guidelines are hard to…
Druglink article 1999 – Watching brief: a video to educate and confront denial by Kamlesh Patel
Videos and support packs in Urdu and Bengali were developed to raise drug awareness with parents in a cultural group that has denied the existence of its drug problems. Watching brief: a video to educate and confront denial (PDF) Additional…
Druglink article 1999 – Getting the point across: a cheap, effective, brief intervention to reduce injecting by Neil Hunt, Garry Stillwell and Paul Griffiths
Since the 1980s, targeted interventions with injecting drug users have largely involved secondary prevention strategies intended to reduce the risk of HIV and make injecting less harmful, rather than primary prevention work that reduces the numbers transitioning to injecting. The…
Druglink article 1998 – Thirty years of drug education: whose learning curve? by Niall Coggans
In an era of the evidence base and the overarching question of “what works?” it is vital that we accept the lesson that 30 years of drug education has taught us: you cannot expect drug education to have a high…
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 – Parents who aren’t scared about drugs – and other curiosities by Neil Robertson
A couple of years ago, Druglink ran an article on needs assessment for parents, which found that though they wanted drug education, its delivery – and even its contents – might not be such easy aspects to resolve. After publication of…
Druglink article 1998 – The generation gap: barriers to effective communication by Anna McClure and Jane Wilcock
For many parents the word ‘drugs’ can instil fear and anxiety. This is hardly surprising considering that often their only source of information is through the media and, invariably, the moral panics created reinforce parental concerns. The mixed messages they…