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My life slowly became more and more entrenched in the drug world – shop-lifting, buying, selling and finding ways and means to get more. I had heard of Narcotics Anonymous but I never thought people like me got clean. This was reinforced by doctors and key workers who kept telling me I had used for too long and should just stick to my script [Sharon Daniel, Wired In]
Get the tools and resources you need to work on two important Faces & Voices initiatives – The Recovery Bill of Rights and The Recovery Voices Count campaign [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
A special treat this week on the Hooked podcast we have an interview with Niamh Eastwood from Release. Release are a charity working to help people with legal issues arising from their substance use [Injecting Advice, UK]
Bob Lynn, Ph.D is an internationally recognized lecturer, researcher and clinician in the field of addictions. He is an LPC and Fellow in Biofeedback Practice. He is also a recognized expert in Family Therapy [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
Nick references David Davies, the Sobells and Australian work on controlled drinking treatment. Nick talks about how his interest in this topic was sparked, the book he wrote with Ian Robertson on this topic and the early trial of controlled drinking treatment they carried out {4’44”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Well semi back into the swing of things after the season to be jolly but the weather is now getting on my nerves. Enough snow already. 2010 has a buzz about it in recovery terms (and I hope in other terms too) and it is good to see so many of you starting the New Year with hope in your hearts and eyes firmly focused on next steps [Michaela, Wired In]
It’s no accident that I first took drugs in frustration over a break-up. Despair of never finding a mate justified most of my relapses – including the last one. Somehow I’d become monomaniacal: convinced that having a lover meant you were okay and that not having one was an obvious flaw in character [GuyinGHo, WIred In]
I’m thinking of using! Confident I won’t, but the thought is niggling away. I haven’t used so far this year. It’s so easy to get drugs round here, I could get them delivered qicker than a pizza [Claire Y, Wired In]
The study accuses the NHS of pampering patients and adds that cosmetic surgery should not be free and malingerers should not be given prescription drugs for minor ailments [Sunday Express, UK]
A new year is underway and Faces & Voices board of directors and staff will be working with you over the next 12 months to make it possible for more of our family members, friends and neighbors to find and sustain their recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
Needle exchange programs chase political as well as epidemiological dragons, carrying within them both implicit moral and political goals [Harm Reduction Journal, USA]
Question: “How many times in the past year have you had 5 or more drinks (for men), or 4 or more drinks (for women) in a single day?” [Addiction Inbox, USA]
It’s hardly a secret that taking cocaine can change the way you feel and the way you behave. Now, a study published in the Jan. 8 issue of Science shows how it also alters the way the genes in your brain operate [Time, USA]
The new research, published in the journal Addiction, found that heavy drinkers cut their alcohol consumption 30% after using the website Check Your Drinking. The reduction was maintained for at least six months [Time, USA]
The Personal Wellbeing of Regular Ecstasy Users in Australia [National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia]
Examining differences between younger and older injecting drug users in the 2009 IDRS [National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia]
Recent articles in The Australian have highlighted the challenge of meeting the 2020 target of halving homelessness. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made homelessness a priority in a way that no government has done previously [The Australian]
It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “sniffer dogs”. As drug laws are relaxed, family pets are increasingly being reported to vets for stumbling upon their owners’ stashes [Guardian, UK]
