From 1998-2002, the JMT’s magazine, Users’ Voice was published 18 times. The JMT was assisted to do this by several different funders and graphic designers – Comic Relief, Central and North West London drug services, Drugscope, Bristol Myers Squibb, JP Getty Charitable Foundation, Trevor Parsons, Paul Mitchell, Mohammed Sahid and John Campbell. THANKS A ZILLION TO ALL OF YOU.

Please note: We decided to just include the more recent editions of the Users’ Voice and only a few earlier ones. Please feel free to contact us if you want to read the earlier hard copies.

Issue 1: [7 pages]

• The John Mordaunt Trust – Who, What and Why?
• First, let’s reduce the harm
• Happy Ending – by Andy

Issue 2: [8 pages]

• HIV+ ex-user addresses the UNGASS, 1998 (UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs) re the futility and inhumanity of the drug war – the speech by Marsha Burnett
• A User’s Tale – by Jo Leigh

Issue 3: [5 pages]

• UNGASS II
• Hit OR miss – by Jude

Issue 4: [6 pages, 285KB]

• Editorial;We need Unity! – by Andria
• Letters
• Fear & Loathing in New Britain by ‘Teeny Blair’
• Not ‘Monkeying’ Around Anymore – by Washington DC’s David Morrison
• Young People, drug misuse and homelessness – by Tim Meddick

Issue 5:[5 pages, 227KB]

• Letters
• Let It Be Me – John Francis of New Delhi’s ‘Beyond Appearances’ User-Group
• Living with hep C and treatment – by Jim the Plumber
• ‘Tackling Drugs,’ ignoring users – by Tom Hood
• Working in the Field – by Gary Sutton

Issue 6: Editorial: [7 pages, 790KB]

• Get grateful, become an activist – by Andria
• Telling it like it is – Andria Efthimiou addresses the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (policy-making wing of UN drug bureaucracy.)
• The Chill-out room
• A new beginning – IHRA involves Users big-time at their Geneva Conf.
• In the beginning was the word, and the word was ignorance – by Lin Scott
• All we need is truth and time – Imani Woods

Issue 7: [4 pages, 421KB]

• A Star in the East – drug users organise at Slovenian conference
• The TRANSFORM interview with founder member, Danny Kushlick
• AIDS Treatments: getting the knowledge

Issue 8: [4 pages, 907KB]

• Positive change in Puerto Rico by Nemesio Moreno
• In memoriam for Joe Magee, 22 and his Ma; poem, “Bear Dancing” by Steve Martin
• My First Time – Ben Shuttleworth (RIP) attends his 1st drug conference
• Hep C figuring out the facts..Matt Dolan.

Issue 9: [8 pages, 508KB]

• Don’t get carried away; there must be a new [drug policy] approach grounded in commons sense, Ethan Nadelmann, Exec Director of the Drug Policy Alliance teaches a more pragmatic and compassionate way.
• Me & Mr Nice: UV9 interviews the infamous Howard Marks.
• The AIDS/User movement: an herstory by Andria Efthimiou.
• Breaking down the myths; inspired by Transforms campaign pack, Ritza see a very real potential for change.
• Using drugs can be ok in recovery; Jude gets real about depression.

Issue 10: [3 pages]

Ruth Wyner and John Brock – Editorial – Jailed for protecting client confidentiality
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• The HIV Page; Dr Ian Williams and Keith Alcorn report back from 7th International conference on Retroviruses.

Issue 11: [10 pages]

• Editorial: User Activists march on – Andria Efthimiou sums up but a few of our GREAT achievements.
• (continued).
• The Talking Doc on the importance of GPs prescribing to drug users.
• U.S Activists Launch Drug Peace Movement; Drug Policy Alliance is born.
• More News.
• Our Vision is Simple; a Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users rep, Brian A speaks out.
• World AIDS Conference Report, Durban 2000, by Andria Efthimiou.
• Mat Southwell, Laying the Foundations of a User Network in the U.K.
• Justin Kerrigan, director of ‘Human Traffic,’ on his great film.

Issue 12: [6 pages]

• Editorial: Politicians in and out of the drug-closet
• (continued)
• Changing Tides,Paul Smyth,on Needle-Exchange in the belly of the beast, America.
• HIV & Young People, by Lin Scott
• Film Review of ‘Traffic’ directed by Steven Soderburgh
• ‘Why I write’ poem by Andria

Issue 13: [7 page]

• Editorial: ‘It’s been a long time coming but i know a change is gonna come’ (Otis Redding song title used as editorial title.)
• Wales to get it’s own Y-Llais (user Group). Justin Glover reports
• Dr David Marjot enlightens. Drug deaths – what really kills drug users..
• Anonymous academic talks; Living with drugs at work
• A year on Interferon: Sue Charlesworth, the brave, copes with HCV treatment.

Issue 14: [9 pages]

• Mr Protest himself gay activist Peter Thatchell speaks out about AIDS and drugs.
• Matt Dolan gives the low down on HCV treatments when on methadone
• Vic Hernandez American AIDS researcher and activist keeps us on our toes about AIDS. Thank-God somebody does
• UK Harm Reduction Alliance 1st conference report.

Issue 15: [7 pages]

• Editorial, Hope Springs Eternal
• Weary but not sleeping, Peter McDermott, writer and activist
• The Latins get organised, Andria Efthimiou on the 1st Latin American Harm Reduction conference.
• AMFAR’s Dr. Mathilde Krim: AIDS prevention – another History lesson.

Issue 16: [10 pages, 288KB]

• Editorial: Rebel with a cause, Brian Paddick famous for the Brixton ‘experiment’ interviewed.
• Liberate the Spirit. UV looks at Spirituality and drugs – Mohammed SajidRev.
• Ken Leech, drugs and spirituality.
• Drugs, no drugs: God’s love always the sameRabbi Schacter-Shalomi.
• Maureen Roberts, a pioneering user’s Mum inspires all.
• Cannabis Users Guide; avoiding any adverse affects, by Chris Sanders

Issue 17: [16 pages]

• Editorial: There is nothing to fear but fear itself (p2)
• Newsround (p4)
• Interview of David Cameron M.P of the Home Affairs Select Committee tells all about how they came to have the drug policy hearings (p5, p6)
• Lorraine Hewitt Obituaries by Grant McNally and Neil Hunt (p8)
• A Gathering of International Marijuana Law Reformers by Anthony Tongue (p9, p10)
• Rosario – Argentina’s March for Marijuana Decriminalisation (p11)
• Danish Drug Users Union 8th Anniversary (p12)
• Introducing the Argentinian Drug Users Organisation – RADDUD (p13)
• Holiday time – where you can and can’t take methodone with you (p14, p15)
• Info and Contacts (p16)

Issue 18: [10 pages]

• p2 – Drug Policy Reform gains a little momentum, Thank God! Andria’s final editorial
• p3 – (continued)
• p4 – (continued)
• p5 – Marco Cappato MEP stages yet another pot civil disobedience.
• p6 – U.S. Harm Reduction Conference, Seattle, by journalist Dan Forbes
• p7 – Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) protest prohibition
• p8 – Brett Calabrese on Getting healthy (after addiction) with yoga
• p9 – The AIDS page
• p10 – So what’s so good about ‘crack’ then? P. Peet (NYC) and others speak out
• p11 – Vancouver Users receive HIV and Human Rights Award
• p12 – Ibogaine – a psychadelic treatment for multiple dependencies
• p13 – Film Review – Morven Callar
• p15 – Johnathan Ott speaks to the Users Voice about many critical things