Drugs

Ideas and Action

Member spotlight: the Bristol activist battling Big Pharma

The Just Treatment campaign challenges the pharmaceutical companies charging the NHS rip-off prices for vital drugs.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Bristol and Beyond

Pregabalin: Bristol’s ‘emerging’ prescription drug problem

As pregabalin and gabapentin are liberally prescribed by GPs — and putting drug users at risk on the black market — the government is taking action.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Features

Cultivating futures at the Severn Project

“Being part of the Severn Project I’m part of society. I was detached from society for a long time. A long, long time.”

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

City

Learning the legal hustle

Bristol-based project Street2Boardroom is ready to shake up the street and business worlds, but challenges lie ahead. “We can’t live in a society where people...

Jack Newcombe

Reports

Drugs services: commissioning failure after funding cuts

Cuts make Bristol one of a growing number of local authorities who received no bids from service providers.

Alec Saelens
Alec Saelens

Ideas and Action

Listen: Powerful voices and stories of recovery from addiction

A selection of powerful stories of people going through recovery.

Emmie Davies and Maria da Silva

City

Drug deaths in Bristol sharply increase

What explains the rising rates of drug misuse fatalities, and how can the risks be reduced for Bristol’s population of drug users?

Lucas Batt Lorna Stephenson
Lucas Batt and Lorna Stephenson

City

Warnings about new synthetic drugs deserve to be taken seriously

Governments have cried wolf about drugs in the past, but warnings about new synthetic drugs are justified.

Simon Oxenham

City

A place to shoot up

How the UK’s drug policy is lagging behind other countries’ “Injection rooms for addicts to open next year in drug law change,” says Irish minister

Ian Sherwood

Comics

My story: Getting back on my feet after alcohol

Cartoon: Getting back on my feet after alcohol

Zoe Power

Edition 4

A silent mind’s view of Knowle West

Knowle West is a neighbourhood in south Bristol, home to 12,000 residents. Since its creation in the 1930s following slum clearance in the city centre,...

Tommy Sussex

City

http://www.by-zoe.com/

Going cold Turkey? Drugs & alcohol advice services severed

Community drug and alcohol advice services in Bristol are struggling to keep afloat and provide vital support to people facing the cutbacks of austerity. Words:...

Alec Saelens
Alec Saelens
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