Support for heroin users should include their basic physical needs. Moreover, say Joanne Neale, Sarah Nettleton and Lucy Pickering, caring for one’s body and good progress in recovery appear to be mutually reinforcing. Let’s get physical (PDF)
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Druglink article 2010 – Needle syndrome by Alex Stevens
There is a direct link between the level of welfare provided by a country and its injecting drug user population – and the government would do well to heed this, says Alex Stevens. The recent consultation on drug strategy stressed the government’s ambition…
Druglink article 2010 – You getting personal? by Sara McGrail
In the current climate of political austerity, the personalisation agenda needs to be handled with care. You’d have to have been living as a hermit on South Uist or paddling up the Amazon in a coracle to have missed the fact that personalisation has…
Druglink article 2010 – Fluid policy by Paul Hayes
The provision of methadone, if some politicians and newspapers are to be believed, is no better than handing out illegal drugs. Paul Hayes, Chief Executive of the National Treatment Agency, clarifies the changes afoot for the substitute drug Fluid policy (PDF)
Druglink article 2010 – End of an era? by Baroness Doreen Massey
Set up by the Labour government in 2001, the National Treatment Agency will be abolished in 2012. So what does this mean for the drug field? Baroness Doreen Massey, Chair of the NTA, maps out the road ahead. In the run up…
Druglink article 2010 – Use your head by Peter McDermott
Drug users in Britain now have a bigger say in how their treatment system works than most other parts of the world. But, says Peter McDermott, we are in danger of letting a decade of progress slip through our hands if politicians restrict the paths to recovery.…
Druglink article 2010 – The Blair experiment by Alex Stevens
Crime was always the lens through which the Labour government viewed drug policy. This focus led to a massive expansion of investment in drug treatment and the merging of this sector with the criminal justice system. The question now is whether these measures succeeded – and whether…
Druglink article 2010 – Adapt and survive by Marcus Roberts
To mark the publication of DrugScope’s report on young people’s drug treatment, Druglink gathered together a group of experts involved in the delivery of young people’s services to share their experiences and concerns, take stock of recent developments and look to the future. Adapt…
Druglink article 2010 – Not for turning? by Paul Hayes and Annette Dale-Perera
Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith’s description of methadone as “a fatalistic, short-term, and damaging approach to drug and alcohol addiction” signalled a growing mistrust of the pragmatic harm reduction measures introduced by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Paul Hayes and Annette Dale-Perera look back…
Druglink article 2010 – From the horse’s mouth by Andy McNicoll and Dr Celia Morgan
The first event of it’s kind in Britain, K-Day brought together users, drug workers and health experts to talk about ketamine – a drug sidelined by treatment services despite causing rising concerns. Andy McNicoll and Dr Celia Morgan on a day that could…