Video: Howard Parker on Heroin in the 80's

Footnotes

1) 1988/9 ACMD Reports: Aids and drug misuse Parts 1 and 2

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs ACMD

Tackling Drugs website

See also Gerry V. Stimson (1990) AIDS and HIV: the challenge for British drug services Addiction

2) Paper: Drug Abuse, Probation Practice and the Specialist Worker [Buchanan J, Wyke G 1987]

Paper:

[Merseyside] Drug Abuse, Probation Practice and the Specialist Worker

Probation Journal Vol.34 No.4 pp 123-126

Julian Buchanan Julian Buchanan

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Howard Parker on Heroin in the 80’s