Safer Communities: Volume 9 Issue 4

Editorial

Daniel Briggs, Chris Fox

Safer Society

Crack cocaine users: ways in, ways down, but ways out?

Daniel Briggs

Despite over two decades of crack use in the UK, there is little UK‐focused research and little understanding of the social context of crack use and health‐related risks. This is…

My experiences of residential rehabilitation

Andy Green

This article was commissioned to gain an insight, from a service user's perspective, into residential rehabilitation and the treatment system in general. Andy Green, who has been…

Addicted to distortion: the media and UK drugs policy

Jon Silverman

Under New Labour, there was no area of public policy that reflected the imprint of media influence more vividly than the issue of drugs. The sacking of Professor David Nutt, the…

Drug services for sex workers — approaches in England and Ireland

Linda Cusick, Kathryn McGarry, Georgina Perry, Sian Kilcommons

In this paper, academics and managers of specialist services reflect on the shifting policy and funding landscapes that shape service provision for drug‐using sex workers in…

Salford: towards a recovery‐oriented city

Colin Wisely

This report concerns itself with the process of change that has been underway in the city of Salford, concerning the adoption of a recovery‐oriented system of care. The paper…

User involvement in the illegal drugs field: what can Britain learn from European experiences?

Caroline Chatwin

In Britain, the last two decades have seen a considerable increase in focus on service users' involvement in the provision of services that directly affect them, particularly…