Perspectives: Harm Reduction, Methadone and Abstinence

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.

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.

‘In 2006 anecdotal stories began appearing in the press about Eastern European women being brought to the UK, and forced into the sex industry. The term for this is Human Trafficking. 2007 is the Bi-centenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The more reports staff and volunteers read in the papers and heard on the news, the more concerned we became.’

In 2005, Lifeline Research decided to co-fund a PhD with Lancaster University to examine the new criminal justice interventions in the UK. A year on, the project has become focused on the subjective experiences of drug users within the criminal justice system (CJS) in England.