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As David shares his journey, we get a real insight into his past world, his long struggle with addiction and how he turned his life around. David has been to the edge and back, and his extraordinary story will be an inspiration to all [Inexcess, UK]
Bringing together addiction professionals to exchange practice perspectives. London, 14-16th May 2009. BOOK NOW [UKESAD]
‘Identifying Europe’s information needs for effective drug policy’, will be the focus of an international conference in Lisbon from 6–8 May. Commemorating 15 years of monitoring Europe’s drug situation, the event will reflect on past achievements and future challenges [European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction]
I am not hopeful that we will suddenly see a rise in abstinence-based or focused services, mainly because I have a wide and varied network of both service managers and workers who I am in contact regularly and they simply do not know how to switch from what they have been doing for the last 20 years [Annemarie Ward Blog, Wired In]
I like the new look too. I was curious about why some folk protested links to service user and professional op-ed pieces. There are plenty of precedents for this in quality newspapers and I always thought DD benefitted from that content. So welcome back to that too [David McCartney Blog, Wired In]
Solid guidance based on a detailed analysis of UK centres offering street drinkers a place where they can start to reverse years of deterioration without having first to stop drinking. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
The Sentencing Advisory Panel (sap) has published a consultation paper relating to the sentencing of the most commonly committed drug offences – deadline for submissions is 15th July [Transform Blog, UK]
Most of the evidence, however, comes from trials with regular behavioural support and monitoring and it is unclear whether using nicotine replacement therapy without regular contact would be as effective [British Medical Journal, UK]
Three trials found that drugs commonly used to treat alcohol dependence improve outcomes for an appreciable minority of patients, even under conditions close to normal practice. Together they offer clues to who benefits most from each medication. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
SRN would like to invite expressions of interest to tender for a piece of research related to Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) in self help and mutual support groups [Scottish Recovery Network, UK]
The importance of utilizing evidence-based practices (EBPs) has taken over health care in the medical, psychiatric and substance use treatment arenas [Counselor, USA]
Because clients in outpatient treatment have the lowest treatment completion rates of all treatment types, it is important to understand the characteristics of clients discharged from outpatient services who completed treatment, dropped out of treatment, or were terminated by the facility [SAMHSA, USA]
