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So while the government is happy to spend taxpayers millions on adolescent treatment and youth services which do not attempt to stop them abusing themselves (I have been told by more than one young people’s services’ teams that “you can’t get them off drugs”), Middlegate is about to join the 18 adult residential rehabilitation units who, because of lack of referrals, have been forced to close [Centre for Policy Studies, UK]
Due to current interest in its findings, we’ve reached back to analyse this 2007 US study. It showed that even in a 12-step programme, persistent and practical efforts can strengthen post-treatment 12-step group involvement and improve substance use outcomes [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
A couple of things caught my eye this weekend. One was a comment by Mark Gilman in his last (not current) blog over the growth of mutual aid groups locally, linked to indigenous community treatment centres. The other was a posting from the Findings website on the advantages to active and assertive referral to mutual aid groups [David McCartney Blog, Wired In]
DrugScope is calling on our members and wider stakeholders to draw attention to the overlap between substance misuse and mental health issues at a series of informal consultation events around the government’s forthcoming New Horizons mental health strategy, starting this month [DrugScope, UK]
The NHS must learn from previous reorganisations and not waste the opportunity to modernise community services provided by district nurses, health visitors, physiotherapists and other staff [The King’s Fund, UK]
One of the reasons that is often cited for the lack of referrals from the Tier 3 NHS services to abstinence oriented recovery is that this is very dangerous as there is a real risk that people who enter abstinence oriented recovery relapse and die. One of the counter arguments is that people who drink alcoholically on top of their methadone die from liver disease etc {Mark Gilman Blog, Wired In}
From Monday 27th April, Jobcentre Plus advisers will be actively encouraging problem drug users claiming benefit and not already in drug treatment to attend an initial discussion with a drug treatment provider [NTA, UK]
Reducing offence and alarm caused by public injecting and related litter is a key motivation for supervised injecting facilities, but one rarely subject to scientific scrutiny. This Canadian study established that these benefits really can materialise. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Latest in a series of studies at a London emergency unit found drinking reductions and reduced re-attendance after referring heavy drinkers for brief counselling. Screening and referral were routine at the unit, suggesting the model could be widely implemented. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Recession leads to falling beer sales in both pubs and supermarkets [Guardian, UK]
The NTA has responded to EATA on the unit costs Tier 4 sample exercise [EATA, UK]
The Medical Research Council (MRC) together with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), announce a novel and exciting strategic initiative to help accelerate the translation of research into public health benefit in the area of addiction and substance misuse [MRC, UK]
One of the Iran’s biggest problems is drugs. According to the United Nations more than 60 per cent of the opium that’s produced in Afghanistan passes through Iran. The country gets millions of dollars of international assistance every year, but says that’s only a fraction of what it needs to fight the drugs trade [Talking Drugs, UK]
A comprehensive guide to mutual aid or support resources that is managed and updated on a monthly basis by Lora Pasetti and Bill White [Faces and Voices of Recovery, USA]
“Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success,” says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. “It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does.” [Time, USA]
This report will begin with an examination of the Portuguese decriminalization framework as set forth in law and in terms of how it functions in practice {long download} [CATO Institute, USA]
HBO’s critically-acclaimed “The Wire” creator David Simon talks about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism [Alternet, USA]
