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Transport for London’s Drug & Alcohol Assessment & Treatment Service enjoyed a success rate exceeding all properly researched treatment outcomes, can pay up to 50% of costs, offers six months’ aftercare and monitors clients for five years – but now finds it so hard to work with London Drug Action Teams that employees must be fired instead of treated [Addiction Today, UK]
Eva Harvey describes how Phoenix Futures has piloted therapeutic communities training for its staff, and extends an open invitation to commissioners [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Volume 1, Issue 1 [Office of National Drug Control Policy, USA]
The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) has published a position statement on the impact of the life style factors obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption on natural and medically assisted reproduction [Medical News Today, UK]
The public spending squeeze means there’s never been a better time for recovery-oriented treatment, says Peter Martin. Sara McGrail warns against sweeping away effective interventions [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
In this issue we focus on ‘new drugs’. In addition to our double feature on mephedrone, we also report from K-day – an event where ketamine users expressed concerns over the lack of treatment options available to them and we hear from a treatment service in Kent about their approach to dealing with so-called ‘legal highs’ {long download} [Drugscope, UK]
Eva Harvey describes how Phoenix Futures has piloted therapeutic communities training for its staff, and extends an open invitation to commissioners [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Motivational interviewing can yield excellent results and the basic skills and techniques are easy to learn. Dr Malcolm Thomas sets out the basics of promoting behaviour change [DDN, UK]
Motivational interviewing can yield excellent results and the basic skills and techniques are easy to learn. Dr Malcolm Thomas sets out the basics of promoting behaviour change [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
The last few months have seen a dramatic increase in use of ‘legal highs’, especially mephedrone (miaow/meow). David Gilliver takes a look at a legislative minefield [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
January 2010, Vol. 3, No 1 {Join Together, USA]
December 2009 [Substance Misuse Management in General Practice, UK]
A new year is underway and Faces & Voices board of directors and staff will be working with you over the next 12 months to make it possible for more of our family members, friends and neighbors to find and sustain their recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
Britain has had a long and sometimes problematic relationship with alcohol. James Nicholls looks back over five centuries to examine the many, often unsuccessful, attempts to reform the nation’s drinking habits [History Today, UK]
When Professor David Nutt was sacked by the Home Secretary for arguing against government policy on drug classification, he stated that his proposals were based on scientific evidence. Professor Andy Parrott goes mythbusting [Addiction Today, UK]
January, 2010 [Drug World]
Stephen Valle’s accountability model yields dividends in clinical eff ectiveness and cost eff ectiveness. It can cut re-off ending rates by an extra 10-40%, and has been applied to domestic violence programmes, courts, community and in-prison therapeutic communities. He gives us the inside story [Addiction Today, UK]
November – December 2009 [Boston Medical Center, USA]
{I had trouble downloading pdf} [Institute of Alcohol Studies, UK]
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