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Professor McLellan was invited by Mike Ashton of Drug and Alcohol Findings to speak at the National Addiction Centre. The event was hosted by the NAC, organised by Drug and Alcohol Findings, Drugscope and Conference Consortium {36’57”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Classic Conference Report, Washington, D.C. September 28-29, 2005 [SAMHSA, USA]
by Mark Ragins: The medical model tends to define recovery in negative terms. Symptoms and complaints need to be eliminated. Illnesses need to be cured or removed. Patients need to be relieved of their conditions and returned to their premorbid, healthy, or more accurately not-ill state [The Village, USA]
5 key challenges for supporting families affected by drug and alcohol use [Adfam, UK]
Executive Summary: Our principal recommendation is for a multidisciplinary “Alcohol Care Team” in each District Hospital, led by a Consultant, with dedicated sessions, who will also collaborate with Public Health, Primary Care Trusts, patient groups and key stakeholders, to develop and implement a district alcohol strategy.[British Society of Gastroenterology, UK]
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is based on the principle that our thoughts and behaviour affect our emotions, and that changing the way we think and act will change the way we feel [Masha Bennett, Wired In]
I wish there was more advice around for people with anxiety to explain about drinking and the fact it can be terrible to drink with anxiety [jojo123, Wired In]
It’s our graduation today from our aftercare and resettlement service in Trafford. I’m so nervous at the moment. Been up since 5. I don’t have to talk there but I want to. I’ve spent hours and hours trying to get all I want to say into a few words
As promised, I’ve developed a simple method of working with recovery capital for practitioners and their clients [theartoflifeitself, UK]
General price increases were effective for reduction of consumption, health-care costs, and health-related quality of life losses in all population subgroups {Lancet Abstract, UK]
Over recent days, a full-blown moral panic has erupted over the spread of mephedrone, a new and currently legal drug that has apparently become something of an overnight sensation among the UK’s young people [Release, UK]
My friend had not even heard of ‘miaow’ or mephedrone when the head of her children’s leading London day school decided to take the law into his own hands, she told me when the tragic mephedrone deaths hit the press last week. He was not prepared to wait on the government [Kathy Gyngell, Centre for Policy Studies, UK]
Mephedrone use among young people is spreading as rapidly as ecstasy did when it arrived on the rave scene in the late 1980s, it was claimed yesterday, as the death of a 24-year-old woman became the latest to be linked to the so-called “legal high” [Independent, UK]
In all the coverage in the papers about mephedrone – the new as-yet-legal drug also known as meow meow and connected with the death of a number of unfortunate young people recently – there has been little focus on the economics [Telegraph, UK]
The fourth dimension concerns the context of change, areas of functioning that complement or complicate change. The context consists of five broad areas of functioning that represent the internal workings of the individual and important interactions with environmental influences [Wired In]
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]
