Drug agencies working in prisons have to deal with many issues not encountered by their peers in the community. Most significant is that they are based in an institutionalised setting defined by rules and regulations but their is also often…
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Druglink article 1996 – Drug use in pregnancy by Dr Mary Hepburn
There is very little scientific information on the effects of drugs on the foetus. This lack of knowledge has led to the rigid ‘medical and social management’ of pregnant drug users. This article examines some of the precepts this management…
Druglink article 1996 – Methadone works by Tom Carnwath
In the first Druglink of 1996, an article claimed that methadone had a death rate four times that of heroin. If this is true, the drug field’s response to heroin addiction urgently needs to be reconsidered. However, a brief analysis…
Druglink article 1996 – The better-travelled treatment tourist: service overlap among heroin and cocaine users by John Strang, Michael Gossop, Beverly Powis and Paul Griffiths
In the last decade, there has been an unprecedented growth in the number and diversity of drug services. Needle / syringe exchanges and street agencies now provide services alongside the more traditional drug clinics. Interviews with community samples of 408…
Druglink supplement 1995 – Task force to review services for drug misusers by John Polkinghorne
Update of the task force set up to review the effectiveness of treatment services for drug misuers. Task force to review services for drug misusers (PDF)
Druglink article 1995 – Is there really a London connection? by Andrew Johns
The case for the defence in the exchange of views between Dr John Marks of Widnes and London’s drug dependence specialists, accused by him of killing the British system. Is there really a London connection? (PDF)
Druglink article 1995 – Who killed the British system? by John Marks
Forced through the health services market to close his drug dependence clinic, John Marks fires his parting shot at the doctors he accuses of having dismantled the ‘British system’ Who killed the British system? (PDF) Additional keywords: heroin prescribing /…
Druglink article 1995 – Drug courts USA by Philip Bean
The drug courts which began in Miami in 1989 offered an alternative to a criminal justice system seen as failing with drug offenders. The judge also acts as a social worker, prosecutor and defender. Offenders are sent to treatment programmes…
Druglink article 1995 – No big deal: court ordered treatment in practice by Maggie Lee and Sarah Mainwaring
Two studies have assessed the practical impact of the provision introduced in 1992 allowing courts to make it a condition of a probation order that drug dependents undergo community based treatment. Courts rarely used this option and it had little…
Druglink supplement 1995 – DoH Task force to review services for drug misusers: a progress report by John Polkinghorne
Terms of reference: to conduct a comprehensive survey of clinical, operational and cost effectiveness of existing services for drug misusers. To review current policy and to make recommendations to ministers. DoH Task force to review services for drug misusers (PDF)