15th January issue
Welcome to our first issue of 2007! I hope you’ve found it easier to get back into routine than we have... After all that Christmas excess...
12th March issue
There’s a lot to read in the RSA Drugs Commission’s new report – probably what you would expect from a two-year study involving representatives whose different jobs...
26th February issue
With an estimated 400,000 people with hepatitis C in the UK, it might seem the most logical move to introduce compulsory testing for anyone entering treatment services....
7th May issue
The newly formed Drugs and Health Alliance are not the only ones to be calling for a complete rethink on drug strategy. This week they called...
23rd April issue
This week the new UK Drug Policy Commission launched – an event covered widely in the media. As newspapers used the opportunity to explore different aspects of...
24th September issue
This morning one of our readers phoned up and discussed his experience of treatment. As he talked, he became increasingly frustrated when he considered the limited options...
3rd December issue
Doing a review of the year makes the months flash past very quickly. But it also reminds you of how much headbanging goes on. (Not the...
26th March issue
There’s been an unwelcome chasm reopening between abstinence and maintenance in the last two years, Daren Garratt told the National Drug Treatment Conference last week – a...
2nd July issue
Release’s 40th anniversary conference last week gave a fascinating – and deeply disturbing – look back to the beginning of the ‘war on drugs’.
The artist Caroline...
21st May issue
Whatever you feel about existing data collection systems – and we know that many of you feel very strongly that they have taken over your job...
22nd October issue
Interviews pulling apart drug strategy are two a penny at the moment – inevitable as the consultation closes for the new strategy. But the interview on...
12th February issue
The most persistent strand running through our readers’ survey responses was alcohol, alcohol services, lack of money for alcohol.
Putting all the pieces together, you get a...
4th June issue
It’s easy to think that the diamorphine crisis has gone away. Stocks have been building with the introduction of new suppliers, and there is optimism that supervised...
10th September issue
Nobody pretends that tackling gang culture is easy. Each new gang-related attack is reported as a sign that Britain’s young people are turning ghoulish overnight. Politicians flounder...
30th July issue
‘We have moved on from a polarised debate and single approaches to a balanced strategy focused on outcomes, based on evidence and delivered through partnership’, says home...
19th November issue
‘Before all I had was an existence, but now I have a life that’s worth living,’ says Matt, who was six months into recovery when he...
5th November issue
It’s strange being on the other side of the media. This week I took part in Radio Five Live’s breakfast show, alongside Richard Phillips from Phoenix...