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Joy Barlow on Scotland’s funding for workforce development

Joy suggests that a lack of recognition for the need for developing the workforce needs to be rectified in some countries {3’14”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]

Tags: filminterviewuk   Date: 17 Dec 09

Joy Barlow: On recovery and the need for a reflective and competent workforce

Joy says that there is a need for minimum standards, and people working with drug users need to have a theoretical grounding and competencies. She says this needs to be underpinned with an understanding of the value and nature of relationship. There has to be an honesty and a valuing of strengths as well as deficits {7’08”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]

Tags: filminterviewuk   Date: 16 Dec 09

Drink Less, Live More, Newcastle NHS Conference

Ed Mitchell headed north for Inexcess to visit the NHS South of Tyne and Weir Conference “One Year On”. Plus three interviews with Mark Watson, Kim Davies and David Wallis. {4’04”} [Inexcess TV, UK]

Tags: filmuk   Date: 15 Dec 09

Video: Ipsos Mori Poll, 6 out of 10, alcohol addiction, drug addiction

Almost six in ten people claim to know someone with an alcohol, drugs or mental health problem reveals new poll commissioned by Inexcess Television {4’58”} [Inexcess TV, UK]

Tags: filmsurveyuk   Date: 11 Dec 09

Joy Barlow: balancing women’s recovery with the vulnerability of affected children

Joy describes the model that built on the contributions of women who were tackling the problems drug use brought for them and their children. Joy continues to describe the work at Aberlour {7’36”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]

Tags: filminterviewuk   Date: 11 Dec 09

Managers and Commissioners Share Part 2/3

Big Decisions. In part two our managers and commissioners discuss personalisation of addicts services, and who is making the big decisions about the process of treatment and recovery {20’29”} [Inexcess TV, UK]

Tags: discussionfilmuk   Date: 10 Dec 09

Joy Barlow on the Aberlour Projects and working with drug using mothers

Joy talks about HIV / Aids, the origins of the projects, and the complexity of working with women drug users and children together {3’26”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]

Tags: filminterviewuk   Date: 10 Dec 09

Mike Ashton on the need for workers to react flexibly to their clients

Mike describes the processes by which the practitioners choices can make things better or worse. “People who have decided that they want to go for treatment… 90% of the work is done” [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]

Tags: filminterviewuk   Date: 10 Dec 09

Mark Gilman - National Treatment Agency

Mark talks candidly with George and a special studio audience about the role of the NTA, its successes, its challenges and plans for the future. Once again the scale and complexity of treatment and recovery are central to the show [Inexcess TV, UK]

Tags: filminterviewuk   Date: 10 Dec 09

Freedom From Addiction - The Park View Project

The Park View project is the only residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in Liverpool. This film is an introduction to Park View, it’s raison d’etre and it’s methods of treatment. The film was made by somebody in recovery who is now a filmmaker at Genie In the Gutter – Park View’s sister company [Genie in the Gutter, UK]

Tags: filmuk   Date: 09 Dec 09

OIntroducing Joy Barlow MBE

Joy Barlow is the Head of STRADA (Scottish Training – Drugs and Alcohol). Prior to developing STRADA, she was responsible for the design, development and management of residential and outreach drug treatment services for substance-dependent women and their children {4’09”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]

Tags: filminterviewuk   Date: 09 Dec 09

Darren - BAC O’Connor, heroin

Darren tells us the damage that heroin addiction did to his life, how it landed him in prison, and how on his release, he became a victim of drug crime himself {2’02”} [Inexcess TV, UK]

Tags: filminterviewstoryuk   Date: 09 Dec 09

In My Backyard: Dispelling Myths About Methadone

ICAAT has produced a 15-minute video addressing the “not-in-my-backyard” (NIMBY) phenomenon – probably the greatest barrier to meaningful expansion of methadone treatment availability in America [International Center for Advancement of Addiction Treatment, USA]

Tags: filmusa   Date: 08 Dec 09

Managers and Commissioners Share, Part 1

George Williams chairs a group discussion with five managers and commissioners of recovery services in the north west. In the first part of this share, George and the group look to the future. They discuss how they hope to progress the services that they deliver, and improve the accessibility and visibility of those services, to the people in the street {16’09”} [Inexcess TV, UK]

Tags: discussionfilmuk   Date: 08 Dec 09

Lisbeth Skovmand Nielsen, Chi healing, Classical Chinese Medicine

Trevessa meets Lisbeth Skovmand Nielsen, a world renowned practitioner of ‘Esoteric Classical Chinese Medicine’, which includes acupuncture, acupressure, reflexology, counselling & soul readings as well as Tai Chi and Kum Nye, Golden Wings Chi Gong and Feng Shui Gong [Inxcess TV, UK]

Tags: filminterviewuk   Date: 07 Dec 09

Skunk linked to psychosis

Smokers of the strong ‘skunk’ variety of cannabis are seven times more likely to experience psychosis [NHS Choices, UK]

Tags: filmprofessional newsuk   Date: 04 Dec 09

Afghan poppy - Gregor Salmon

Gregor Salmon, author of ‘Poppy’, discusses the situation in Afghanistan {9’56”) [You Tube]

Tags: australiafilminterview   Date: 03 Dec 09

William - BAC O’Connor, heroin

As William progressed from social drug taking to heroin addiction he became stuck in a destructive cycle. Having gone in and out of employment, and finding his life becoming more chaotic, he sought help, and was referred to BAC O’Connor in Burton upon Trent {1’56”} [Inexcess TV, UK]

Tags: filminterviewstoryuk   Date: 02 Dec 09

Shoveling water

Journey to the heart of coca country in Colombia where U.S. tax dollars have financed chemical spraying of the Amazon for the past nine years {24’36”} [Witness for Peace, USA]

Tags: filmusa   Date: 01 Dec 09

Drug Worker Share, Part 3 of 3

Preparation and Communication. The group discuss the transition from prison to recovery. Again, preparation and communication from services and users is seen as the key to helping people in their journey to recovery {16’56”} [Inexcess TV, UK]

Tags: discussionfilmuk   Date: 01 Dec 09

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