Black Poppy Magazine is a health and lifestyle magazine for the drug using community. Written and created by people who use drugs – for people who use drugs, BP is a unique and essential port of call for any drug user. Issue 14 is out now – and available from Exchange Supplies.
This packed issue includes:
- INPUD on the Rise - BP reports on the first 3 years of the International Network of People who Use Drugs
- Judgment Day - S.Wilcox continues with his hellish story facing court and the death penalty in Thailand
- Old School - Chris Drouet, Co-Founder of Black Poppy dies of an overdose aged 60, leaving questions: Black Poppy editor Erin O’Mara looks at the issues affecting older users
- Top Tips for Maintaining Lung Health
- A Modern Day Libertine: Sebastian Horsley, in one of his last ever interviews talks to BP about life, drugs and art
- How to Catch a Chemical: How the government aims to play the chemists at their own game: Legal highs and the methods used to make them illegal.
Readers contributions:
- Out of the Mouths of Babes: The first in BP’s new Womanhood series, 13year old Molly tells her story
- Remembrances: We remember loved ones lost.
- Poetry and Prose: Lisa and Robin write in to BP.
- I Predict a RIOTT: Hannah writes of her experience inside London’s heroin prescribing trial, RIOTT
- CD’s Junkmail: Your letters plus a special report on ‘how to write a successful letter to the editor
- Love Amongst the Wheely Bins: Ben Lawrence writes about a bit of dirty lovin
Regular features
- News – Sativex, London User Forum, UKHRA
- What’s The Score - An Uneasy Feeling. Opinion piece looking at the new Coalition’s recovery agenda.
- Science on Substances no.14: Diamorphine. A Wallace documents the rise of heroin to infamy.
- Info Update - Pulmonary Disorders BP kicks off the first in our Lung Health Series
- looking at COPD, Emphysema, Chronic bronchitis and illness from smoking drugs
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