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Where: BBC Wales Good Morning Wales Radio Interview Thursday 21st May 2009
Like (1)The popularisation of treatment and the war on drugs
Where: FEAD interview
Julian describes drug use within a political context and the difficulty of appeasing the general public. He describes drug users the 'convenient enemy'.
Institutionalised discrimination and the challenge of reintegration
Where: FEAD interview
Julian describes in detail his view of the contradictions inherent in the approach we take to working with drug users in society.
Where: FEAD Interview
Julian describes his view that the war on drugs is not rational.
The problem of criminalisation and the pragmatism of decriminalisation
Where: FEAD interview at home
Julian talks about his perspective as having emerged from experience and from developing a pragmatic approach to problematic drug use
The 'wider malaise' regarding critical analysis
Where: FEAD interview at home
Julian says we have a 'self interested approach to difficulties' together with insecurities, and that this affects people's capacity to 'speak out'
Working in Merseyside in 1983 - lessons learned
Where: FEAD
Julian talks about coming across the new phenomenon of the 'heroin user' while employed as a Probation Officer on Bootle Merseyside 1983
Working with Dr John Marks in Liverpool
Where: FEAD interview at home
Julian talks about the needle exchanges in Bootle and Waterloo
The place of criminal justice interventions
Where: FEAD interview at home
Julian talks about work in Bootle and Waterloo and the importance working alongside prisons
The huge step between drug control and social reintegration
Where: FEAD interview at home
Julian describes the challenges of moving through the wall of exclusion from drug control to reintegration
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