29-07-2010
Who do they tell? (A46)
8 page booklet detailing the records that are kept by drug services about their clients and in what circumstances information is shared. Includes information about the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System and the Treatments Outcome Profile.
Alcopops Poster (K1)
The poster and postcards feature information on: drinking, driving and overcrowding cars; advertising; alcohol content; drinking to appear hard, risky situations; drinking alone and helping friends. Space is provided for local information.
The Speedball Wake Up Call
There is much indirect evidence, and a small amount of direct evidence, that speedballing the multi-injection of heroin with crack/cocaine in the same shot
has grown substantially in Britain over the past decade. It is estimated that around one in three British drug injectors is now into speedballing about 60,000 people.
Drug-War Milestone: Record levels
Drug-related searches and offences in the UK have now reached unprecedented levels. First, drug-related stops & searches by the police in England & Wales climbed to a record level of 405,000 in 2006/07, up from just 32,500 in 1986. This constitutes a twelve-fold increase in 20 years, and amounts to over 1,100 drug-related stops & searches per day