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A study of people who used heroin in prison gives vital clues on reaching out to this significant and vulnerable cohort. Lana Durjava shares her findings.  Read the full article here in May 2018 DDN Magazine Recent reports on drug use in prison have highlighted the increased use of new psychoactive substances; however heroin is […]

Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT) is showing dramatic progress in transforming lives. DDN reports. ‘Life was shit. I would rob Peter to pay Paul. I’d cry every day and was at rockbottom, living on people’s settees, doing drugs whenever I could.’ ‘Julie’, Middlesbrough, 2020 If Julie was living in middle class society in Britain before the […]

With a vast range of forms and potencies, the fentanyl family bring too many unknowns. Kevin Flemen gives an essential guide. Click here to read it in DDN Magazine Another day, another drug warning – lately we’ve had drug scare after drug scare. There was flesh-eating Krokodil, Bath Salt cannibals, Hippy Crack, Zombie Spice and, […]

The EU heroin market is estimated to be worth ‘at least’ EUR 5.2bn annually, says a new report from EMCDDA and Europol.  While the Taliban’s opium ban has led to a 95 per cent fall in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan according to the latest UNODC analysis (https://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/afghan-opium-cultivation-drops-by-95-per-cent/), there are as yet no signs of any […]