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Bruce described the view of addiction that has become established, and which he discusses further in his other clips {10’55”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Finding long-term solutions to drug addiction [National Treatment Agency and Guardian, UK]
The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse spent your hard-earned taxes and mine on paying for positive PR in the Guardian this week, sponsoring a special supplement [Addiction Today, UK]
An NTA article printed by medical journal Lancet led national media andinternational academic websites to the perception that this body of bureaucracy is successfully treating addiction/dependency. Deirdre Boyd reveals the truth behind the headlines [Addiction Today, UK]
Too often in my experience, we respond to a person’s decision to attend a service by offering them a system with unattractive options and workings, rather then a welcoming environment and attractive possibility. That is why our service users refer and then miss the assessment. Or come in only to opt out [Oliver, Wired In]
Let’s adopt a positive and expectant approach in treatment services and aim always for the best outcome possible rather than settling for the palliative approach… for many of those working in treatment, if their sons or daughters or partners or friends became addicted, they would want a different sort of recovery for them than their clients tend to get [Peapod, Wired In]
Stephen (Bamber) and I were speaking today at the West Midland’s Recovery Event. I thought it was a great event. But, once again I found myself thinking and talking about how we match the social offers we make, such as housing, commensurate with someone’s progress in recovery [Mark Gilman, Wired In]
John Hubbard, senior practitioner with the Stockton harm minimisation service, was named individual ‘Diversity and Inclusion Champion’ at the Stockton Celebrating Diversity Awards 2009 [CRI, UK]
I’m a bit concerned about what academics at Kent University have to say about the “myth” of date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol and GHB [Telegraph, UK]
Tougher laws may be needed to stop one of Britain’s fastest growing drugs causing permanent damage to its users, MPs have been warned [Telegraph, UK]
“I feel ashamed, of course. I promise myself that this lie is the end of it” [Guardian, UK]
Why a tight market for drugs may be contributing to recent violence [Economist, UK]
The APIS Web site presents information on ten policy topics that are particularly relevant to underage drinking [Alcohol Policy Information Systems, USA]
[National Institute on Alcohol and Alcoholism, USA]
These are heady times for advocates of legalized marijuana in California — and only in small part because of the newly relaxed approach of the federal government toward medical marijuana [New York Times, USA]
The following is the testimony NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano will deliver on Oct. 28 to the California Assembly Public Safety Committee’s special hearing on “the legalization of marijuana: social, fiscal and legal implications for California” [Alternet, USA]
Last week, two volunteers at an unsanctioned needle exchange were in court in Modesto hoping to reach a plea bargain after they were arrested in April for handing out syringes [Alternet, USA]
However, certain medicines may be especially harmful and, in some cases, fatal in a single dose if they are used by someone other than the person the medicine was prescribed for [Food and Drug Administration, USA]
The call has been timed to coincide with the opening of the ‘3rd Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference’ in Moscow, and comes amid deep concerns and broken promises regarding the funding of harm reduction programmes in the country – which has an estimated 1.85 million injecting drug users [International Harm Reduction Association]
At a conference on international human rights in Hanoi, Anand Grover, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, called for the decriminalisation of drug use and an end to compulsory drug rehabilitation camps in Asia [International Drug Policy Consortium]
