Features
08-12-2007
Eugenie Cheesmond 1919-2007, Founder of the Lifeline day centre 1971
Eugenie Cheesmond was founder of Lifeline in 1971 and director until 1976. She was known for her radical approach to medicine and healthcare and had an impact on the lives of very many people through…
07-12-2007
Secret workers
‘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…
17-10-2007
IF I RULED THE WORLD…Ten things I would do
Presented at NOMS Prisons and Beyond conference October 2007.
‘Everything we have learned about health literacy at Lifeline indicates that the most empowering public health campaigns are those…
13-10-2007
Reversing out of the cul-de-sac: The future of the Drugs Field
‘We are now at a stage, based very much on the evidence rather than any supposition, where the ‘clear link’ between drugs and crime as identified over a decade ago is being described according to one…
20-06-2007
Multi-Drug Injecting in Manchester
An assessment of officials statistics revealed that needle-sharing rates and levels of HIV and HCV among IDUs in the North West have recently risen to record levels, and that the North-West has the…
12-06-2007
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…