Posts Tagged ‘Harm Reduction’
12 Steps to Living Positively with Hepatitis C
As an illness Hepatitis C can take a long time to become symptomatic, however, when it does it can affect people in many different ways, how each person reacts to this will be different. In fact everything could differ from one person to another and what they do to manage their illness will be different. However, in saying that there are some [...]
Metaphor For Crack
BY Cliff Seaward I was taught the toilet flush metaphor for dopamine depletion, but have always struggled with it as it doesn't cover dopamine re-uptake suppression. After spending a couple of months reading up on current theories of crack/cocaine brain chemistry I have come up with a new metaphor for what happens in the brain when we use crack [...]
Anthrax Is In Heroin: The Facts
Heroin users in the UK are facing a potentially deadly risk from an outbreak of anthrax. The outbreak among heroin users, first identified in Glasgow in December 2009, has spread to several other areas in Scotland and there are now anthrax cases in England. A case was also reported in Germany in December. A substantial number of those heroin users [...]
Heroin Anthrax Infection Spikes London
Feb 8 2010: The first case of anthrax in England has been confirmed in a heroin user in London. This follows the ongoing cluster of confirmed cases of anthrax among heroin users in Scotland. A number of these people have died from anthrax thought to be from contaminated heroin. Anthrax is a rare and very serious bacterial infection that is [...]
