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After nine years continuous service, our beloved Daily Dose will be closing at the end of this week. Sadly, we have been unable to attract sufficient sponsorship to continue running the service. I would like to take this opportunity of thanking all our subscribers for their continued support and we are sorry that we cannot continue to provide you with a service [David Clark, Wired In]
Through our long-standing partnership with the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction services, PRCH has developed a comprehensive set of recovery-oriented practice guidelines which offer specific guidance on how to translate the concept of recovery into the concrete day-to-day practice of behavioral health care practitioners and systems [Yale School of Medicine, USA]
With drugs in the picture, lives are often at stake, whether from addiction, adverse drug effects, or the risks that go along with emotional crisis and madness. Combined with the confusing messages from society about drugs, the result is a lot of fear. Drugs become demons or angels. We need to stay on them at all costs, or get off them at all costs [The Icarus Project and Freedom Center, USA]
Data from largest alcohol treatment trial in Britain is used to address possibly the most contentious issue in the field – whether services should offer moderation as well as abstinence goals to dependent clients [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
The proposed policies serve the industry’s interests at the expense of public health by attempting to enshrine ‘active participation of all levels of the beverage alcohol industry as a key partner in the policy formulation and implementation process’ [Addiction, UK]
The Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) invites members of the public to its open meeting on Monday 29 March 2010. There will be an opportunity for attendees to provide feedback to the ACMD and participate in a question and answer session [Home Office, UK]
We are so heavily targeted on TOPS that I dread to think what would happen to our manager if we messed up. I fear their head might just explode. It is all checked and double checked [Splendidly, Wired In]
… the next time she goes to the drug clinic I will be going with her. As I want to know why all they could do was laugh at her and treat her as a joke especially when she has been telling them how she has been feeling for over a year, and how its been affecting her [Linda, Wired In]
Finally, who is not in recovery at some stage in their lives? Life is often an uncomfortable journey and a rocky road to travel. So we all stumble and get hurt. We all need to recover at sometime or other [Tony A, Wired In]
Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith’s description of methadone as “a fatalistic, short-term, and damaging approach to drug and alcohol addiction” signalled a growing mistrust of the pragmatic harm reduction measures introduced by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Paul Hayes and Annette Dale-Perera look back at the politics of treatment [Druglink, UK]
So the National Needle Exchange Forum took place on the 19th March in Southampton. Did you attend? No? Well just for you (no one else, just you, don’t tell the others) here is a review of the days events, and believe me it was a great day [Injecting Advice, UK]
New guidelines will help teachers meet the needs of children with foetal alcohol syndrome [Guardian, UK]
Despite crackdown by Felipe Calderón, more than 2,000 people killed this year as drug cartels vie for turf [Guardian, UK]
North Yorkshire woman ‘took drug in two days before death’ [Guardian, UK]
In this article, we consider the Processes of Change, the cognitive and behavioural activities that facilitate change. The extent to which each of these processes is used depends on what state of change the person who has a problematic behaviour has reached [Wired In]
