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NSP’s in a recovery-orientated system

Tuesday, 02 March 2010 19:44

Today I've got an article from a guest blogger Stephen Bamber. Stephen normally writes the great Recovery focused blog The Art of Life Itself, but I recently asked him if he would like to write a piece for Injecting Advice on how he thinks needle programmes fit into the idea and ethos of Recovery. I hope you like what he's had to say.

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Anthrax update

Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:30

Anthrax As the anthrax situation worsens and we get the first cases appearing in England (London and Blackpool) there is still a lot of confusion over the finer details of the outbreak, especially the details on the routes of drug administration.

This has lead to anger from user groups, as Alan J from the National Users Network said on their Facebook page:

"It would be most helpful if the HPA could give a breakdown of those infected by the contaminated heroin according to mode of ingestion..."

Well the information exists but for a number of reasons it's only being distributed via word of mouth, possibly because Health Protection Scotland (HPS) are worried that the information may make people feel safe using routes that later turn out to also be a risk.

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Hooked 33: Nicotine

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:37

So a show on nicotine, at some point it had to be done, but was it really fair of me to not warn my co-host that we where going to do it. Especially as she'd only just stopped smoking.

We of course still did our best to approach the subject in our usual balanced way (which was difficult for Allison).

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Not all syringes are the same

Sunday, 21 February 2010 18:31

Syringes As you’ll know if you’ve spent any time either working in a needle programme or injecting there are many different kinds of needle available.

The assumption is normally that the needle you’ve used in the past is always the best one for the job and most NSP workers will just go along with this, but at the end of the day not all needles are equal. This article will compare some of the main equipment you can get.

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Overdose workshop resources

Thursday, 18 February 2010 11:27

Overdose resources Since releasing the Overdose Workshop in mid January its been viewed over 1000 times. So I've decided to provide some more supporting resources for it.

I've developed both a presentation to be used when running the workshop and a poster to promote the 'What's my score' tool.

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Hooked 32: Weird and unusual highs

Monday, 15 February 2010 13:18
It's a constant amazement the wide and varied ways we humans have of getting high. After the last few interviews on the Hooked podcasts we decided to give you a lighter episode. This includes everything from strange plants to Billy Ray Cyrus related highs. As Allison (the shows co-host and editor) said on Twitter when she was editing "A podcast on drugs really shouldn't be this funny"
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