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Provides the knowledge essential to help people reduce, cease, or manage their cannabis-use problems. The manual aims to provide facts, figures, and useful techniques to assist clinicians in providing evidence-based treatments for cannabis users wishing to change the patterns of their use. The manual also provides a number of worksheets to use with cannabis clients [National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, Australia]
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Home Office contacted DIP intensive areas in June 2009 and encouraged local police forces to increase the use of the ‘inspector’s authority’ provision to drug test more people on arrest [Release, UK]
Professor A Thomas McLellan, appointed by President Obama as Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, has accepted an invitation from the Conference Consortium, DrugScope and Drug and Alcohol Findings to visit the UK, on Monday 8th March 2010 [Conference Consortium, UK]
Help us save it: With 5 beds, Middlegate is open 24/7, 365 days a year and offers drug and alcohol treatment, including detoxification, for to 11-18 year olds; in a safe, rural setting [Addiction Today, UK]
In this episode of Hooked I’m interviewing Rupert George from the Talking Drugs website. We talked about the purpose of the site to inform drug policy and information, its international balance, some of Ruperts opinions of the international drug situation and the fact Talking Drugs needs more help from people like you [Injecting Advice, UK]
Last summer, someone who had recently stopped drinking asked me in a support group “How will I know when I’ve made it?”. I told him that I don’t think you ever really will know, but you will ask this question less and less as time marches on [Daemon, Wired In]
Those of us who are in positions of care who have never really worked out why we are there can be very reluctant to let go of control and let our clients recover. This will cause resistance to a grassroots recovery movement, but those resisting will not fully understand where their resistance comes from [Androcles, Wired In]
Guess what – didn’t sleep and this morning the postman brought some more cards of condolence, which I have found very supportive. And there it was in the pile, a death certificate! Is this what life is all about a birth certificate and then a death certificate; kept in a nice little ‘keepsake’ box? [Susan C, WIred In]
We left Ken with a serious habit that led him into a different kind of life. Ultimately he was arrested by the police, cuffed, shoved in a van with his co-accused and taken to the local station for questioning…. [Ken K, Wired In]
I’ve been afforded a window into a few recovery providers practices via discussions with some workers I’ve come to know through my own recovery. The running theme seems to be a focus on service user retention at any cost, which often can be invariably at the cost of the service user [Tony A, Wired In]
Whoosh. That was the sound of the last seven days passing in a flurry of blogs and discussions that show recovery, despite being (willfully?!) misunderstood by some (see anthrax deaths and recovery) is on the march, the walk. The surfboard and could well be happening in a location not far from you [Michaela, WIred In]
The national strategy for self-directed support in Scotland has been developed to help take forward the personalisation of health and social care services in Scotland [Scottish Government, UK]
The dangers to young people of a legal high known as “meow meow” have been highlighted by the Government’s new drugs adviser. Professor Les Iversen said the speed at which the drug, officially called mephedrone, had become popular was “quite scary” [Times, UK]
The National Offender Management Service Interventions and Substance Misuse Group (NOMS ISMG) is holding a series of stakeholder consultation events in February and March 2010 to inform the development of NOMS Alcohol Policy [Alcohol Policy UK]
[National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK]
This study confirms that alcohol is a significant factor in road deaths. Further targeted action including a reduction in the legal limit is required [Irish Medical Journal]
Mary Beth Summers is a co-founder of My Sober Scene, a website site dedicated to the communication between sober minded individuals. For the past several years she has dedicated her life to the growth of a network that is for the Sober Minded Clean / Sober Curious folks [Afflicted & Affected, USA}
Lord Birt, the prime minister’s “blue skies” strategy adviser, privately recommended the more widespread use of free heroin prescribing to undercut the £4bn a year illegal drug market and stop the 260,000 heroin users in Britain having to commit crimes to buy their supplies [Guardian, UK]
