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An alternative or complimentary approach – one reflecting a recovery paradigm – focuses on changes in recovery incidence (number of new people entering recovery each year) and prevalence (total number of people in recovery) and on changes in recovery support resources at the community level [Faces and Voices of Recovery, USA]
Witnesses to HOC Home Affairs Committee: Steve Rolles (Transform), Professor Neil McKeganey (Centre for Drug Misuse Research, Glasgow University), Mitch Winehouse & Sarah Graham [parliament.uk]
The 2009 United Nations World Drug report notes that 2009 marks “the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)”, and that the illicit drug market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per-year industry. Collected here are a handful of recent images from the rough world of illegal drugs across the globe (37 photos total) [Boston Globe, USA]
With its attractive community-led approach, the US Communities That Care prevention process has spread to the UK and other countries. This first randomised trial confirmed that given promising towns and rigorous execution, it can curb the growth of adolescent smoking and drinking [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Journalist Karen Day documents her visits to four communities to illustrate the impact of the recession on the lives of the people who live there. Four very different communities – Gellideg in Merthyr Tydfil, Hedworth in Jarrow, South Tyneside, Broadgreen in Swindon and Barkerend in Bradford… [Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK]
The New Recovery Advocacy Movement is in part a declaration that we recovering people should be speaking for ourselves. We should be playing a part in shaping the knowledge base of addiction medicine and addiction counselling as well as having a role in shaping social policies that affect the lives of addicted and recovering people [Annemarie, Wired In]
PeaPod has got me thinking about this business of a balanced treatment system that offers recovery options alongside stabilisation and maintenance… Can we try and evidence and pin down some of the barriers to a balanced system and some of the ways that places have broken through these barriers? [Mark Gilman, WIred In]
We have been meeting for a number of months now ‘under the radar’, finding our feet and developing the group in a way that is genuinely peer led. We now feel we’re ready to expand and are getting in touch with our local services so that they can let people know we are here! [Wired In 2 Recovery, Wired In]
Well I am back home for a couple of weeks and back to reality. Greg’s promises were not worth the breath he spent on them. He has started drinking again in my absence. He has the cheek to say he needs to buy a small bottle every day to avoid the withdrawal symptoms [Alcoholic Daze, UK]
Ivy and Glyn tell us how they have spent over 15 years supporting and helping their daughter who was addicted to prescription drugs. It is only in the past 6 months, through working with BAC O’Conner as a family group, that they have learnt the skills and acquired the tools to help their daughter and change their own lives {4’11”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
The presentation specifically explores the learning gained during the production of the DVD entitled, ‘Reflection on Recovery: Stories shared to inspire hope and promote recovery from mental health problems’ [Scottish Recovery Network, UK]
This study shows a changing disease profile among the homeless population consistent with a growing drug using population. It confirms that the homeless population in Dublin in terms of health remain excluded from
the benefits of an economic boom despite a government policy aimed at redressing social inclusion [European Journal of Public Health, UK]
Home owners will be forced to disclose how much they spend on alcohol, tobacco and even summer holidays when they apply for a mortgage under new rules [Telegraph, UK]
Clinicians face many challenges daily in attempting to develop and implement a treatment program for a pregnant woman suffering from opioid dependence [Counselor, UK]
The committee concludes that data consistently demonstrates that secondhand-smoke exposure increases the risk of coronary heart disease and heart attacks and that smoking bans reduce this risk [Institute of Medicine, USA]
The federal government should not be harassing sick people and their caregivers. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has made the right decision, calling off prosecutions of patients who use marijuana for medical purposes or those who distribute it to them — provided they comply with state law [New York Times Editorial, USA]
I don’t think the federal government should be spending a whole lot of time on small-time druggies, and I’m undecided about legalizing pot, which enjoys 44 percent support among the general public, according to a recent poll {Washington Post, USA]
Heroin remained the most commonly reported drug of choice for injecting drug user (IDU) participants, and reports of use have remained stable since 2006 [National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia]
More than 30 million needles are handed out through exchange programs across Australia in a year, and yet half of all injections are still done in a non-sterile way [The Australian]
I have committed to not drinking for a year and doing observational & psychological research into youth behaviour to find a viable alternative to problematic youth drinking [Hello Sunday Morning, Australia]
