Howard Parker on Heroin in the 80's

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Howard Parker
Howard Parker
Location: Liverpool, UK
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VIDEO NUMBER:
13
CATEGORY:
History And Historical Events
DATE ADDED:
11-03-2008
DESCRIPTION

 Howard describes the period in which heroin use became visible in the UK

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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:
Probation Journal Vol.34 No.4 pp 123-126 
Julian Buchanan  Julian Buchanan
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