health

Features

Deputy Mayor wants pilot for safe consumption room in new drug strategy

More consultation is needed and city needs to work out how to fund it, but Asher Craig says it could be one way to reduce drug deaths, as a mock safe consumption room was on display last week.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Opinion

Measles is back, and it’s not just because of anti-vaxxers

We need to take our message out of surgeries and into communities, says a Bristol pharmacist

Ade Williams

Ideas and Action

The initiative shaking up sex-ed in Bristol

Sex education in schools is limited in its breadth and awkward in its delivery. Could a circus TROUPE with a 12 ft silken labia be the answer?

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval and Andreas Doherty-Nicolaou

People's History

The tragic story of Hannah Wiltshire and a Bedminster Workhouse resonates today

An untimely death led to a campaign for justice by the local community.

Rosemary Caldicott

Edition 19

How child’s play is a serious matter

A year since the council cut play services, we visit an adventure playground in Southmead.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Features

Bristol doctors on air pollution: ‘The council isn’t taking things seriously enough’

Medical professionals have a role to play as advocates for public health, but “system change” is necessary, says MedAct Bristol.

Alex Diggins

Addicted Bristol: Life and Death

This is why you should vote to make drugs safer

Reduce drug deaths, get needles off our streets and save money for emergency services. Vote now for a safe consumption room.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Addicted Bristol: Life and Death

A safe fix for Bristol’s drug users and the city

Saving lives and clearing needles off the streets: Bristol has the power to become the first UK city to set up a safe consumption room.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Addicted Bristol: Life and Death

An accident left him in constant pain. But medical cannabis is still out of reach.

While the legal barrier has been overcome, experts say it will take years before we have medical buy-in and affordable products.

Maria da Silva

Addicted Bristol: Life and Death

‘I’m sober now but without support, self-medication is always an option’

After overcoming a drink problem and addiction to painkillers, this man is fighting to access services that will keep him in recovery.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Addicted Bristol: Life and Death

Landmark medicinal cannabis reforms don’t go far enough, say campaigners

Specialist doctors – but not GPs – will be able to give out cannabis on prescription from November.

Maria da Silva

Addicted Bristol: Life and Death

Falling into crack addiction: “Wrong place, wrong time”

The story of a young woman whose downward spiral into crack addiction and a controlling relationship all took place under one roof.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards
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