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Pat Taylor joined Faces & Voices of Recovery as Executive Director in 2003, building on many years of grassroots advocacy leadership [Afflicted & Affected, USA]
Faces & Voices of Recovery grew out of the historic 2001 Recovery Summit in St. Paul, Minnesota. It rose as an organizational manifestation of a new recovery advocacy movement in the United States. In the years since, Pat Taylor has brought great passion, skill and creativity to her leadership of Faces & Voices [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
“I thought suicide and death were the only way out.” When Katie came to Liverpool to do “the Work” as part of the Road to Recovery Event we caught up with her at the Hope Street Hotel [Inexcess TV, UK]
An Interview with Phillip Valentine by William L. White, MA [Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center, USA}
Claire describes the role of Audit Scotland in mapping spend on drugs and alcohol across Scotland {1’06”) [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Claire describes the additional layers of complexity resulting from differing priorities between bodies. She explains they could improve services by sharing resource and accountability {2’09”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Claire describes the process of disentangling the spend related to drugs and alcohol, the messages received, and the need for greater clarity and communication on spend {2’55”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Claire says that the sense of variety came through, but that there is not equity in terms of access to services across Scotland [1’38”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
Claire says the report recommends work to simplify arrangements and funding design. Claire talks about the uncertainty and constraints the services are facing {1’15”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Claire talks about Audit Scotland’s response to complexity when tracking the way public money is spent across drug and alcohol services. She talks about Audit Scotland’s experience of National reviews, and how groups and individuals helped in producing the study [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
William talks about the need to maintain boundaries between treatment and mutual aid. He says there is a lot of ‘role definition’ to get worked out with those groups that stand between treatment and mutual aid [Film Exhange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
William White talks about the need to be cautious about our judgements of methadone treatment {2’19”) [Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
William talks about the treatments and beliefs held about addiction through history, and the need to remain humble. [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
William talks about the development of addiction treatment industries and the need to reconnect treatment to recovery. He talks about the need for the treatment and grassroots systems of support to be connected [Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
Peter Marinelli is the Chief Recovery Officer at Origins Recovery Centers, which opened its flagship recovery center on South Padre Island, Texas on August 9, 2009 [Afflicted & Affected, USA]
John Varley talks about Barclays approach to dealing with employees with addiction problems, the effects of the global recession on individuals and the environment in which they work {14’13”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
Norman G. Hoffmann, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and president of Evince Clinical Assessments, is an internationally recognized expert in the area of assessment and outcome evaluation [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
Ethan Nadelmann is part of Change.org’s Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. We asked Mr Nadelmann to respond to questions to provide context for his work and the causes he supports [change.org, USA]
The aim of RAMP treatment is to produce a safe environment that makes concrete the concept of recovery as a passage to freedom and a richer life, accessible to all who’ve exhausted the validity of self medication as a meaningful life choice [Inexcess TV, UK]
Nick talks about the theory of how people resist temptation by findings ways of increasing the value later, larger rewards relative to earlier, smaller rewards, as described in the work of Jon Elster and George Ainslie.. {3’42”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
