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Selected articles from Black Poppy Magazine

 

Pain Relief for Opiate Users

What happens when people who use opioids - especially those maintained on methadone or other substitute opioids - require opioids for the treatment of pain? Dr.Tim Mitchell

 

A Dealer's Certificate of Standards:

If the Dutch can do it, then why can't we?

 

The West End

London's West End, the birth of the British drugs scene...C.Drouet

 

Free Heroin

Heroin on 'script...Or...Winning the pharmy lottery..G. Sutton

 

Done To, Done Over, Doing it for Ourselves

The history of the Drug User's movement...Jude Byrne

 

The Politics of Discrimination

Drug use and discrimination...Wendy.O'Mara

 

An Armistice in the War of Words

Perjorative language and misinformation continues to obscure the drugs debate...Wendy O'Mara

 

The Hard Core Of the Big Apple

BP's New York corrospondant on drug life in the Big Apple...P.Vanderkloot

 

On The Edge of Reason

Why are we failing women who use drugs?...Erin O'Mara