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The new welfare reform bill gives unprecedented new powers to Jobcentre staff, undermining privacy and confidentiality [Martin Barnes, Guardian, UK]
Tackling prejudice and making the reintegration of drug addicts a priority are key to ensuring long-term rehabilitation. So it’s important to find personal solutions that can really change lives [Guardian, UK]
An Interview with Michael Boyle by William L White [Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center, USA]
‘It’s a different relationship. Local people are partners in the services they get, not recipients’ [Guardian, UK]
Alcohol consumption on page 64 [Scottish Government, UK]
It’s all a bit scary this recovery lark, isn’t it ? Provoking nightmares of lunatics taking over asylums, worms turning, and treatment professionals queueing up along with the rest of us at JobCentrePlus. Add to this the spectre of people taking risks willy nilly, forms not being filled and oh, the horror, a drought of statistics [Michaela, WIred In]
I would quite happily profess to being an alcoholic in the latter of these years and even joke about it with friends. But humour is what kept me in denial of how serious a problem I had. If it wasn’t humour I was using to keep me in denial I would try and intellectualise or philosophize my way out of it [Phil Hughes, Wired In]
Our sector is one of the few places where their past is an asset rather than being regarded as a liability. I would hope that employers, practitioners and focus groups will be more active in seeking safeguards to the VBS, so that an automatic bar is not placed on those who have demonstrably shown that recovery has moved them on from their past [Eleanor Levy, Wired In]
This morning I was back at the hospital, where I seem to be spending most of my time this week, to meet the social worker who sold me down the river last year. She has been brought in to discuss Greg’s latest condition and what help/back-up Social Services can provide [Alcoholic Daze, UK]
Despite all the headline grabbing research that’s been carried out to look for cancer causing properties of cannabis, there doesn’t seem to have been any research done to look at the effects of mixing cannabis and tobacco, as is common practice here in the UK [UKCIA, UK]
Both Ed and David Miliband received a copy of the four-point manifesto report [MEAM, UK]
The Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire results for 32,162 young people between the ages of 10 and 15 [Schools Education Unit, UK]
This is the latest in the series of annual reports providing key findings from the Welsh Health Survey [Welsh Assembly Gov, UK]
The purpose of the papers is to explore women’s alcohol and drug misuse, focusing on gender differences and highlighting in particular the effects substance misuse has on women’s health [Women’s Health Council, Ireland]
Merchants Quay Ireland is a national voluntary agency providing services for homeless people and for drug users [Merchants’ Quay, Ireland]
The seminar intended to create discussion and debate about alcohol and its relationship with the individual, the community and the wider societal environment [drugs.ie]
Maceon is a guy who lives in Sydney and is involved in community-based education and awareness raising. He features in a new DVD, obtained from makers, which contains stories from several different speakers and is used as a facilitation tool [Hepatitis C Council of NSW, Australia]
Aboriginal elders want more youth programs in the Kimberley to prevent indigenous children ending up in detention thousands of kilometres away from family and culture, and stop a downward spiral from which they rarely escape [The Australian]
It is indisputable, as Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin says, that education and employment are the keys to closing the life expectancy gap between indigenous and other Australian [The Australian]
As followers of our death penalty coverage in the HR2 blog will know, Asia is one of the regions of the world where the application of the death penalty for drug offences is most commonly applied [International Harm Reduction Association]
