30-01-2008
Subutex:Suboxone use by prison inmates
HMP and NOMS North East Area have commissioned a booklet following work with Lifeline Project to address the problems related to Subutex use by inmates. The release of the booklet follows a controversial Channel 4 Newsnight item and an article in Druglink Magazine, which highlighted the need for coherent information and practices with inmates.
Lifeline and HMP Officers discuss the production of the booklet in the clip below:
Pages from the booklet can be viewed at www.lifelinepublications.org
Channel 4 news - View >>
Guardian and Druglink
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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.
Smoking heroin as addictive as injecting?
By all means publicise the dangers of heroin, by all means tell people that smoking often leads to injection. But smoking heroin is safer than injecting it - to say otherwise is dangerous and could lead to more deaths
Z-drugs on the RADAR
Lifeline has periodically been running a type of early warning research called RADAR. One of the issues that was highlighted was the injection of zopiclone and other (so called) z-drugs in the north east of England.