How useful is it to talk about rogue batches of drugs? By Harry Shapiro What do the following have in common? Green apple and rolex; red dragon; yellow grenade; superman; teddy bears and blue ninja turtles. Following well-publicised incidents over…
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Druglink article 2011 – The great heroin crash by Peter Simonson and Max Daly
A snapshot Druglink survey carried out among frontline drug services, senior DAT staff, police and service users in 18 towns and cities across the UK has found the heroin drought is widespread, ongoing and the most severe of its kind on record. Five month drought the longest…
Druglink factsheet 2003 – What’s in a drug?
Brisk dust and rat poison? Cutting edge information on drug adulteration. Factsheet – What’s in a drug? (PDF)
Druglink news item 2002 – The unkindest cut? ‘Investigative journalism’ and research by Ross Coomber and Jon Derricott
Laboratory analysis consistently reveals that drugs are rarely cut with noxious substances. How is it then that every time a journalist goes out on the street to investigate the drug scene, they turn up evidence to suggest that dangerous adulteration…
Druglink / DrugWatch factsheet 2012 – PMA / PMMA
PMMA (paramethoxymethylamphetamine) is a Class A stimulant and psychedelic drug. It is structurally similar to methamphetamine and paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA). PMA was created in Canada in 1973 and after being linked to several deaths in Canada and U.S.A seemed to disappear from use until the 1990’s. Since…
Druglink article 2000 – Snowed under: Is it the real thing? by John Martin Corkery
If the UK suffered the cocaine epidemic which was reported in the 1990s the figures should reveal it. Snowed under: Is it the real thing? (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – Lab-coated pills by Mike Power
With users in the UK dying from ecstasy tablets containing PMA, are Dutch pill – testing strategies the way forward? Or are users lulled into a false sense of security? Mike Power investigates Lab-coated pills (PDF)
Druglink news item 2013 – Mad about Molly by Max Daly
This summer a series of deaths of young people after taking the party drug Molly shocked America’s resurgent rave scene. Mad about Molly (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – Not sorted for E’s or whizz by Harry Shapiro
While the forensic information has yet to be made public, the tragic death of Nick Bonnie at the Warehouse Project in Manchester (28 September) appears to be the latest in a series of deaths linked either to strong ecstasy or the PMA ecstasy combination. Up until…
Druglink news item 2013 – All the dope that’s fit to print by Harry Shapiro
Recent warnings about strong heroin raises concerns about impact. All the dope that’s fit to print (PDF)