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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles

Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.

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  • A health worker holds the hand of a mother with her baby: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria, ca. 2000.
  • A son hugs his mother with a message about how she came to terms with him being gay; advertisement by the AFAO [Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations] and Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men's Health Centre. Colour lithograph.
  • A group of young gay men wearing grey t-shirts with a question 'Which one of us is gay?' and a list of national contacts for free confidential support groups for gay men in Australia; advertisement by the AFAO [Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations] and Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men's Health Centre. Colour lithograph.
  • A young man wearing a chain bearing a cross with a message about how he is proud to be gay and a list of national contacts for free confidential support groups for gay men in Australia; advertisement by the AFAO [Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations] and Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men's Health Centre. Colour lithograph.
  • A man on the staff of a health resort is pouring water in a bath tub in which a man covered with a sheet is seated. Etching, May 1870.
  • A man on the staff of a health resort is pouring water in a bath tub in which a man covered with a sheet is seated. Etching, May 1870.
  • A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.
  • Luzern by night with a pink condom as the moon. Colour lithograph by the Federal Office of Public Health.
  • Bern by night with a pink condom as the moon. Colour lithograph by the Federal Office of Public Health.
  • Zürich by night with a pink condom as the moon. Colour lithograph by the Federal Office of Public Health.
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