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Learning from people who overcome heroin addiction: Without treatment (Part 1)

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]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 26 Mar 10

A review of the evidence-base for harm reduction approaches to drug use

‘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]

Tags: articleuk   Date: 26 Mar 10

Stages and Processes of Change (Part 3)

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]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 25 Mar 10

Treatment Works! Is it time for a new slogan?

by William L White: Treatment Works is the central promotional slogan of the addiction treatment industry. This essay argues that the slogan misrepresents the probable outcomes of addiction treatment and misplaces the responsibility for such outcomes [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]

Tags: articleusa   Date: 25 Mar 10

Recovery With Severe Mental Illness: Changing From A Medical Model to A Psychosocial…

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]

Tags: articleusa   Date: 25 Mar 10

NNEF meeting report

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]

Tags: articleuk   Date: 24 Mar 10

Stages and Processes of Change (Part 2)

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]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 24 Mar 10

The Recovery Community Organization: Toward A Working Definition and Description

By Phillip A. Valentine, William L. White and Pat Taylor [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]

Tags: articleusa   Date: 23 Mar 10

The drug experience: Heroin (Part 6)

Ambivalence is a striking feature of addiction, particularly when the person has made a rational decision to stop using and makes attempts to do so [Wired In]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 22 Mar 10

The drug experience: Heroin (Part 4)

“My whole life, my whole being was centred on drugs and any means to get them you know. My whole life revolved around drugs, drugs, drugs” [Wired In]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 18 Mar 10

The drug experience: Heroin (Part 3)

“There’s no sign that says, ‘you’re now entering addiction’, there’s no big sign that says, ‘you’ll need to stop now, if you go once more that’s you’ [Wired In]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 17 Mar 10

National Needle Exchange Forum

If you are in the UK and you work in a needle & syringe programme (NSP) then you should already know about the NNEF, in fact you should be a member (membership is of course free) [Injecting Advice, UK]

Tags: articleuk   Date: 17 Mar 10

The drug experience: Heroin (Part 2)

Some people admit to not thinking about the consequences of their actions, and in fact do not think much about their drug use at all. Many others, when they first start taking heroin, are confident that they will not become addicted. A common belief is that, “addiction is not something that could happen to me; it happens to other people” [Wired In]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 16 Mar 10

The drug experience: Heroin (Part 1)

Here is a drug that is pilloried on the one hand, and yet is used [diamorphine] in the UK without controversy to treat severe and intractable pain, arising from illnesses such as cancer [Wired In]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 15 Mar 10

The harms and risks of substance use

The harm caused by substance use needs to be considered in a variety of ways. Use of drugs, alcohol and solvents can carry risk to different aspects of life [Wired In]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 11 Mar 10

What Is Nicotine Dependence? What Are The Dangers Of Smoking?

Tobacco smoking is a practice in which tobacco is burned and the smoke inhaled or tasted. Smoking is primarily practiced as a route of administration for nicotine through the lungs; it is a way of getting nicotine into your system rapidly [Medical News Today, UK]

Tags: articleuk   Date: 08 Mar 10

Drug choices … and the loss of choice

In simple terms, dependence can be seen as an impairment in a person’s ability or power to choose. The drug becomes more important to the person than other aspects of their life, which the majority of us would consider as essential [Wired In]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 08 Mar 10

Supplying foil at last

Some of us have been waiting a long time to be able to stock foil in our needle programmes, today’s article is from Allison my co-host on the Hooked podcast who is now in a position to do this [Injecting Advice, UK]

Tags: articleuk   Date: 08 Mar 10

Alcohol dependence

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]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 05 Mar 10

It’s not just about the drug (Part 2)

Robins’ impressive research study contradicted the commonly held belief that heroin use is an inevitable consequence of using the drug, and that once it has taken hold it is virtually impossible for the user to give up the habit. It provides a good example of the ways in which changes in social circumstances can have a powerful effect on the way people use drugs [Wired In]

Tags: articlewired in   Date: 03 Mar 10

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