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Putting Recovery on the world’s stage – Nearly 1000 people lined the streets of Liverpool to celebrate Recovery for the first time. “This is no longer about the problems of addiction, its about the solutions and these people prove that”. Hope is a word that many used for years, now its belief [Inexcess TV, UK]
This evaluation of an intensive child protection service for the children of substance misusing parents was the first in Britain to recruit an adequate comparison sample, a vital step in assessing effectiveness. Main finding was reduced need for long-term removal from the home [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
In this first US randomised trial, starting methadone maintenance in prison radically improved treatment uptake on release, cut heroin and cocaine use, and may have saved lives [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
The authors used data from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) to prepare their analysis [NTA, UK]
An Interview with H. Westley Clark, MD, By William L. White, MA [Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center, USA]
So, focusing on the recovery of The Warehouse Recovery Project has been, and continues to be, the most exciting time of my career so far! Our presentations to service users, the recovery community and local agencies were incredibly well received and we were inundated with people interested in joining our workshops [Isobel, Wired In]
“It is our responsibility to shift that conversation into a conversation about recovery. This is what we have not done yet. What we need to try and do is engage with people and talk to them about what it is like to be in recovery.” Simon Jenkins, Liverpool Recovery March, Sept 2009 {Why not submit your story?] [David Clark, Wired In]
I’m truly grateful to SHARP Liverpool for helping me see that things I saw as weaknesses in a man are actually qualities and strengths to have. SHARP gave me the tools to go out in the world and build my bridge to normal living through the Fellowships [Wired In Personal Story]
An evening of music, singing and theater with The Outside Edge Theatre Company introduced by Jimmy Page. Riverside Studios Crisp Rd Hammersmith London, 25th November, 2009 [Outside Edge Theatre Company, UK]
The first 6 months of pharmacological or psychosocial treatment is associated with reduced heroin and crack cocaine use, but the effectiveness of pharmacological treatment is less pronounced for users of both drugs [Summary in Lancet, UK]
Two-thirds of heroin and crack cocaine addicts on drug treatment programmes either abstain or substantially reduce their use of street drugs during the first six months, according to the biggest study of outcomes ever attempted [Guardian, UK]
Joy Barlow, Strada director and one of the main movers in setting up the inquiry concurs with this. Government is looking for a new approach, but so are the families of drug users and even the addicted themselves, she says [The Herald, Scotland]
Admissions to substance abuse treatment for primary methamphetamine abuse were more than twice as likely in 2007 to be aged 40 or older (23 percent) compared with admissions in 1997 (10 percent) [SAMHSA, USA]
The goal of alcohol prevention research is to reduce alcohol-involved problems at the family, neighborhood, community, state, and national levels [Substance Abuse Policy Research Programme, USA]
One man’s problem drinking led him to Quakerism via AA. Both, he believes, are practical, non-hierarchical and can help in a quiet process of recovery [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Nobody listens to people who “cry wolf” or who are hypocrites. Nothing could be nearer the truth when it comes to the government’s anti cannabis campaign aimed at young people [UKCIA Newsblog, UK]
Enabling staff to see their ideas come to fruition can bring passion and drive to everything they do, according to Swanswell’s chief executive, Debbie Bannigan [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Alcoholics who do not show they can stay sober outside hospital are expected to be offered liver transplants for the first time next month [Times, UK]
Two years after they set about eliminating drugs from Irish jails, prison authorities have as good as admitted defeat [Times, UK]
Fewer young adults with a drug problem are using heroin and crack – the two substances most likely to cause addiction, increase crime and pose serious health risks – but the number of under-25s seeking treatment for dependency on cocaine is rising significantly, official figures show [Guardian, UK]
