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After nine years continuous service, Daily Dose makes a last entrance today, 26th March 2010. Sadly, we have been unable to attract sufficient sponsorship to continue operating. The site will remain so that you can continue to use our archive, which dates back to 1st January, 2002… As Editor and Founder of Daily Dose, I would like to take this opportunity of thanking our 8,000 subscribers for their continued support… I leave you with just a few of my favourite links. [David Clark, Wired In]
The Recovery Bill of Rights is a statement of the principle that all Americans have a right to recover from addiction to alcohol and other drugs [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
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]
Considerable effort is underway in the United States to transform behavioral health care toward the goal of supporting the long-term recovery of individuals and families. Achieving this goal requires new organizational partnerships, refined strategies of collaboration, fresh approaches to policy and clinical decision-making, and a fundamental restructuring of relationships throughout the system of care [IRETA, USA]
This publication is a collaborative effort by a number of IDPC members and partners, and brings together global evidence and best practices on the design and implementation of drug policies and programmes at national level [International Drug Policy Consortium]
The government is spending £17.6m on alcohol education and information in 2009-10, but this is dwarfed by the UK drinks industry’s £600-800m annual spend on promoting alcohol [British Medical Journal, UK]
High on the UK pre-election policy agenda, alcohol tax rises have now been accepted by a national US panel of experts as a major public health measure to curb excessive alcohol use and related harms. Politicians remain wary for reasons which cannot just be dismissed as populism [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
The new research, conducted in Australia, found that adolescents in the five main cities saw nearly as much TV alcohol advertising as 18-24 year olds, and in the case of full-strength beer and wine, in one city underage teens were actually exposed to more advertising than young adults of a legal drinking age [Addiction, UK]
These days, recovery for me is not about struggling to stay sober or clean (although not using or drinking is still at the top of my daily ‘to do’ list). It’s about living life to the full. It’s about connecting: to others, to myself, to things bigger than me. It’s about putting something back. It’s about being grateful for a new chance [Peapod, Wired In]
‘It’ slowly washed away a vibrant, popular young man into one who cared little about life itself; only where the next hit was coming from. ‘It’ made him lose all sense of reality, as his mental health suffered and he was unable to cope with everyday living [Susan C, Wired In]
She was a senior mental health nurse with a NHS Trust in the Midlands… “… and what makes me really mad is when they come in asking for all kinds of arrangements for pick up ‘cos they are going on 2 weeks bloody holiday to Tenerife or somewhere tacky like that. I mean I’ve saved all year for this holiday and some of them come in twice a year asking for letters and pick up arrangements just so they can have these bloody holidays [Jac, Wired In]
[Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Nearly 1000 people lined the streets of Liverpool to celebrate Recovery for the first time. “This is no longer about the problems of addiction, its about the solutions and these people prove that”. Hope is a word that many used for years, now its belief {19’25”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
Harm reduction is a term that is used to refer both to a set of general principles used to underpin policies concerning the way that societies respond to drug problems and, simultaneously, to some specific types of intervention, such as needle and syringe programmes and methadone treatment, which are often seen as being synonymous with harm reduction [Neil Hunt and colleagues, UK]
Up to 70% of inmates in Britain’s jails have mental health disorders. In the first of a three-part series, Nick Davies hears their shocking stories [Guardian, UK]
In the final part of his award-winning series on the criminal justice system Nick Davies finds staff and inmates fighting an outside world which obstructs the rehabilitation of offenders [Guardian, UK]
Release is the national centre of expertise on drugs and drugs law – providing free and confidential specialist advice to the public and professionals…. also campaigns for changes to UK drug policy to bring about a fairer and more compassionate legal framework to manage drug use in our society [Release, UK]
Provides research-based information about addiction, drug treatment, and recovery for new patients undergoing treatment for addiction, and for their friends and families [National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA]
The Addiction Project website is produced by HBO in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) [HBO, USA]
The product of more than 20 years of research, Slaying the Dragon is the remarkable story of America’s personal and institutional responses to alcoholism and other addiction… Author William White provides a sweeping and engaging history of one of America’s most enduring problems and the profession that was born to respond to it [Chestnut Health Systems, USA]
One of the reasons for the dearth of recovery models is that people who become abstinent without treatment generally cease to associate with those who remain addicted. In fact, in many cases, ending these associations is a necessary condition for becoming abstinent [Wired In]
