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Considerable effort is underway in the United States to transform behavioral health care toward the goal of supporting the long-term recovery of individuals and families. Achieving this goal requires new organizational partnerships, refined strategies of collaboration, fresh approaches to policy and clinical decision-making, and a fundamental restructuring of relationships throughout the system of care [Faces and Voices of Recovery, USA]
It’s usually difficult to define something important in one word, so I will add two others to how I think services can best promote recovery, and those two words are social inclusion… And finally, for me, it is about offering aspirational roles for service users… [Simon Morton, Wired In]
After introducing the group last week, I thought I’d give a bit more information about the philosophy behind how the groups run. If you’d like to talk about getting involved, then please get in touch with me! “Together we are promoting the many different pathways to recovery…” [Sarah Davies, Wired In]
I like the way the group meets people where they are at and we can face what each of us is dealing with at any one time. I feel like we talk about life in general. Obviously, addiction is a part of it but we focus on the worries, concerns, pre-occupations or positives that are a part of our recovery, not our addiction [WiredIn2Recovery]
By Julie Repper and Rachel Perkins: The starting point of this book is the lived experience of mental health problems and recovery, articulated by many of those who have survived and thrived with metal health diffuculties. {Another essential read, Ed} [Amazon, UK]
Ed Mitchell talks to James Langton author of No Need For Weed: Understanding And Breaking Cannabis Dependency {18’51”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
The Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) invites members of the public to its open meeting on 10th November 2009 [Home Office, UK]
Rather, the dramatic changes in antidepressant prescribing volumes between 1993 and 2005 seem to be largely because more patients are on long term medication and this group consumes the most drugs [British Medical Journal, UK]
[National institute on Drug Abuse, USA]
Health and law enforcement officials around the nation are scrambling to figure out how to regulate medical marijuana now that the federal government has decided it will no longer prosecute legal users or providers [New York Times, USA]
White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske’s thinking about drug addiction has moved from disdain to enlightenment over the past decade, but the former police chief views drug legalization as a “non-starter” and is urging law-enforcement officials to speak out against the idea [Join Together, USA]
Do drinking women face tougher odds? [Addiction Inbox, USA]
Patrick DeChello is an internationally recognized clinical social worker, clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist and chemical dependency treatment specialist with over 30 years of experience [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
