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I’m taking a week’s holiday next week. Sarah Davies will be taking over my role in running the Wired In online recovery community and Daily Dose… I hope you’ll give Sarah the same support I receive and be patient if there are any snags [David Clark, Wired In]
Interview with Walter Ginter by Bill White [Faces and Voices of Recovery, USA]
In this response to Report the IDPC welcomes improvements in the way in which sections of the Office have moved to approach the complex problem of presenting and interpreting data on global illicit drug markets as well as the associated increase in transparency surrounding working methodologies [International Drug Policy Commission]
The Science Group considered the advantages and disadvantages of a number of different methodologies that could be used to inform answers to the question “does marketing communication impact on the volume and patterns of consumption of alcoholic beverages, especially by young people” [Science Group of the European Alcohol and Health Forum]
Recovery is becoming a buzz-word in the UK treatment community. I may be sitting on the other side of the world at present, but plenty of people are communicating with me about what is happening. There is genuine excitement! However… [David Clark, WIred In]
Unlike ALL of the previous marches, demos etc that I had attended in the past, I was there with all my heart and soul. This was something I wholeheartedly believed in; that of my own and others’ recovery. This was a march not about the problem but the solution and for me to break my anonymity… [Phil Hughes, Wired In]
So, I left not dispirited about the dying embers of any empire holding on desperately to the threads of a justification. Is there a parallel here with the plight of Gordon, Tony and Mandy or even the NTA? But with the optimism that, ‘Yes the lunatics are rightly taking over the asylum and it is time for the white coats to move aside.’ [Wulf, Wired In]
Former BBC and ITN broadcaster Ed Mitchell is to join Inexcess Television as Editor from October 5th 2009. Ed Mitchell was one of Europe’s leading business broadcasters for many years interviewing hundreds of top financial and political figures {0’49”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
Students are increasingly using brain-boosting drugs – and they’re virtually impossible to ban, an expert warned today [Guardian, UK]
New research by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers looks at the specific ways parents and peers influence teenagers to smoke, drink and use marijuana in combination [Medical News Today, UK]
The funding of a Government-led drug programme by a charity operating in developing countries raises serious questions about future drug funding, a leading voluntary drug service has said [The Irish Examiner]
On September 24, during his visit to the US, Victor Ivanov, Director of Russia’s Federal Service for the Control of Narcotics (Russia’s Drug Czar), gave a talk at The Nixon Center on “Drug Production in Afghanistan: A Threat to International Peace and Security” [Transform, UK]
A few weeks ago, there seemed to be some heartening news: the amount of land used to grow coca leaf, the raw ingredient of cocaine, fell by almost a fifth compared with last year [Financial Times, UK]
With the aim of improving the health of the European citizens in an efficient and cost-effective way, the European Commission is continuously working on tobacco control, both with national authorities and at the global level {European Union]
Nearly eight years after a U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban regime, Afghanistan remains far from stable [Brookings Institution, USA]
Expanding Opportunities for People to Get the Help They Need to Recover – National Health Care Reform: What You Can Do [Faces and Voices of Recovery, USA]
Charlie Griffith is the editor of It’s all in the JOURNEY; the only magazine written by, for and about the recovery community. Charlie is also the owner of Joy’s House; a sober house for women opened in his daughter’s memory [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
A trio of organizations is sponsoring a new campaign intended to prevent alcohol and other drug abuse among the children of military families [Join Together, USA]
Afghanistan’s drug czar is waging a new campaign against heroin traffickers who fund the Taliban. The fate of the war may hang on it [CNN Money, USA]
The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an and other schemes that U.S. and Afghan officials say it may be impossible to choke off the movement’s money supply [Herald Tribune]
