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The welfare reform bill will, for the first time, introduce benefit rules specifically for problem drug and alcohol users – but it could extend to claimants with mental health problems [Martin Barnes Blog, Guardian, UK]
An astonishing 360,000 young people aged 11-15 get drunk every week. We invited industry and health experts to discuss how an avalanche of health and social problems can be prevented [Guardian, UK]
As a member of the Kennedy clan, Christopher Kennedy Lawford had it all – including a full-blown addiction to alcohol and drugs. Here he talks about how he finally managed to stop, and stay stopped for the past 23 years [Addiction Today, UK]
The Park View project is the only residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in Liverpool. This film is an introduction to Park View, it’s raison d’etre and it’s methods of treatment. The film was made by somebody in recovery who is now a filmmaker at Genie In the Gutter – Park View’s sister company [Genie in the Gutter, UK]
Sally was a drug addict for seven years before she managed to get clean and re-establish contact with her children – all thanks to a family legal aid lawyer [Guardian, UK]
The Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) invites members of the public to its third open meeting on 14 May 2009. There will be an opportunity for attendees to provide feedback to the ACMD and participate in a question and answer session [Home Office, UK]
Today’s highly evolved and effective drug treatment system is succeeding but the challenge of gaining the public’s interest and understanding must be met if we are to keep the current momentum of progress [NTA, UK]
Let’s find out why drug users leave treatment, says Paul Hayes, CEO of NTA [Guardian, UK]
Motivational interviews are not universally beneficial or at worst neutral; sometimes they make things worse. In this US study they helped ambivalent patients make the most of their treatment but impeded the recovery of those already committed to change. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Unfortunately, most people perceive recovery in this manner so give up before trying – they wrongly believe that even if they become clean they will not get a job, girlfriend, home, etc and prosper… If they could only change the glasses they are wearing from mud tinted to clear.. [MichaelF Blog, Wired In]
The Recovery Bill of Rights is a statement of the principle that all Americans have a right to recover from addiction to alcohol and other drugs [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
There are several promising applications of mindfulness to enhance recovery from alcohol and drug dependence and other addictions. This article explores several new trends and ways that meditation and mindfulness can be used to complement and help with recovery {Counselor, USA]
It is 42 years since the UN set out to eradicate the use of illegal drugs, with results that we see all around us: the last marijuana smoker races the last speaker of Scots-Gaelic towards extinction; redundant cocaine dealers beg pathetically on the streets; the scourge of heroin has been banished forever from the planet [Guardian, UK]
Outlines the understanding that society has of psychoactive drugs and challenges assumptions that are made about these substances [Wired In Article]
