The Home Office will make the increasingly popular drug ketamine illegal before the end of the year. Mark White on an anaesthetic which – via the battlefields, the gay clubbing scene and Indian pharmacies – has risen to prominence as…
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Druglink article 2005 – Trading places by Max Daly
Ketamine on the rise, ecstasy for 50p and ‘two in one’ bags of heroin and crack: Max Daly takes a look at the results of the year’s UK wide drug prices survey Trading places (PDF) DrugScope street drugs survey 2005
Druglink article 2005 – Ecstasy: the next generation by Max Daly
Ecstasy has always been associated with clubbing. Now its replacing cans of lager and cider as the street corner drug of choice for children on council estates trying to fend off the bleakness and boredom of their lives. Ecstasy: the…
Druglink article 2004 – From cauliflower cheese to methadone by Mark Gilman
Treating problem drug users has become a multi-million pound, red-tape laden industry. This was not always so. Mark Gilman explains how treatment services have been forced to adapt to cope with dramatic changes in the causes and characteristics of drug…
Druglink article 2004 – 2034: a spaced odyssey by Max Daly
A menu of drug buzzes at the touch of a button, heroin highs without lows and MDMA for the terminally ill. Max Daly asks three drugs and science experts (Gerry Stimson, Tony Dickenson and Rick Doblin) to think outside the box…
Druglink article 2010 – High tide by Andy McNicoll
Shetland’s remote but affluent island communities are facing up to the reality that, unlike the rest of Britain, rising numbers of young people are taking up heroin. Three years ago, the 22,000 members of Shetland’s close-knit community – who inhabit a string of 15…
Druglink article 2010 – Booze, bans and bite-size bags by Max Daly
The ban on mephedrone, the recession and Britain’s rising alcohol problems have all left their imprints on the UK drug market over the last year, according to Druglink Street Drug Trends 2010. Feedback from frontline drug services, police forces, drug action teams and…
Druglink article 2010 – Snow, skunk and psychonauts by Max Daly
Which substances have been the movers and shakers in the drug market over the last ten years? Max Daly on the rise of cocaine, cannabis farms, internet highs and the rapidly evolving business of selling drugs. As Britain awoke in the year…
Druglink article 2010 – The hit parade
Flicking through 10 years of news stories in Druglink magazine, it’s easy to see why the media, politicians and the public at large find illegal drugs such an intriguing subject. It is a world, over the last decade, that has encompassed everything from sniffer dogs patrolling…
Druglink article 2010 – Chemical reaction by Marcus Roberts
With a growing market in highs such as ketamine, GBL, Spice and mephedrone and a trend towards young people mixing and matching drugs with alcohol, drug services are facing a different set of issues than they were at the turn of the millennium. Marcus Roberts introduces…