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Many of you will be aware of the SDRC from previous blogs and discussions on Wired In. Well, here’s an update and more information about the SDRC as we are now up and running. Our membership will be drawn from Scotland but we are very keen to link across the broader UK Recovery networks [Dougie Paterson, Wired In]
This drug policy guide was compiled in 2009 through research and consultation with our network of experts. It aims to provide our regional and national partners with a resource that they can use to conduct reviews of the national drug policies and programmes in their areas, and engage with policy-makers to work towards policy and programme improvements [International Drug Policy Consortium]
“Reduction in harm caused by problem drug use presents a complex and chronic challenge. This is being addressed by a series of strategies and programmes and very substantial resources: £1.2 billion a year. It is achieving improved results but we need to learn from experience as we go forward and measure effectiveness and value for money in order to make appropriate adjustments to programmes [National Audit Office, UK]
This text provides a brief summary of key Brief Intervention research findings from the last three decadesand discusses a number of knowledge gaps that need to be addressed [Addiction, UK]
In a study published today in the journal Addiction, researchers in the United States have discovered that accidental overdose deaths involving cocaine rise when the average weekly ambient temperature passes 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit) [Addiction, UK]
The UK’s only residential rehab centre for young people worked where other schemes failed. But short-termism has closed it [Kathy Gyngell, Guardian, UK]
I have no idea how you people out there ever recover from addiction. You are such marvellously strong individuals. I can’t even do this small thing, I just stuff my face with crap and cry. What you all have to do is climb a mountain – how do you get the strength do this? [Susan C, WIred In]
He describes his mind as a washing machine, constantly churning over thoughts, the skills he has learnt in the programme help him rationalise and deal with those thoughts and the subsequent emotions [Inexcess TV, UK]
A report by the NAO into government action to tackle problem drug use published today has concluded that: “Without an evaluative framework for the Strategy as a whole, the NAO is not able to conclude positively on value for money” [Transform Drug Policy Foundation, UK]
The home affairs select committee (HASC) yesterday published its report on the cocaine trade, and what a woeful job they have done… The current report lacks evidence, contradicts current expert thinking and, frankly, panders to a “tough on drugs” stance that by their own admission does not work [Niamh Eastwood of Release, Guardian, UK]
In a report published today, the House of Commons Select Committee on Home Affairs claimed that cocaine use is growing in Britain, and has become a normal part of life for many people [Release, UK]
The first AERC Alcohol Academy workshops in the North East took place last month, covering key topics for the region of alcohol and older people and cocaethylene (combined cocaine and alcohol use) [Alcohol Policy, UK]
The alcohol dependence syndrome was seen as a cluster of seven elements that concur. It was argued that not all elements may be present in every case, but the picture is sufficiently regular and coherent to permit clinical recognition [Wired In]
