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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]
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]
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]
Executive Summary: Our principal recommendation is for a multidisciplinary “Alcohol Care Team” in each District Hospital, led by a Consultant, with dedicated sessions, who will also collaborate with Public Health, Primary Care Trusts, patient groups and key stakeholders, to develop and implement a district alcohol strategy.[British Society of Gastroenterology, UK]
5 key challenges for supporting families affected by drug and alcohol use [Adfam, UK]
Classic Conference Report, Washington, D.C. September 28-29, 2005 [SAMHSA, USA]
With drugs in the picture, lives are often at stake, whether from addiction, adverse drug effects, or the risks that go along with emotional crisis and madness. Combined with the confusing messages from society about drugs, the result is a lot of fear. Drugs become demons or angels. We need to stay on them at all costs, or get off them at all costs [The Icarus Project and Freedom Center, 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]
Within your mental health and/or addictions treatment, a “recovery plan”, sometimes called a treatment plan or service plan, is the document that you create with your team to help plan how you want to move forward towards your goals.
We conclude that there is strong evidence that tax- and age-based restrictions on alcohol availability reduce crime, and we discuss implications for policy and practice [Christopher Carpenter & Carlos Dobkin, USA]
In this special online-only dossier, we bring together some of our key investigations and feature stories on cocaine, including the first reporting of a two-tier market in the drug and the spread of its use to blue collar workers [Drugscope, UK]
This report was commissioned in order to provide detailed country profiles relating to alcohol and other drug issues. In addition, a regional overview has been prepared to highlight where existing regional mechanisms may be, and already have been, employed to address these issues [Australian National Council on Drugs]
Policymakers and other stakeholders can use cost-benefit analysis as an informative tool for decision making for substance abuse prevention. This report reveals the importance of supporting effective prevention programs as part of a comprehensive substance abuse prevention strategy [SAMHSA, USA]
by William L White and colleagues: These peer-based recovery support roles go by various titles: recovery coaches, recovery mentors, personal recovery assistants, recovery support specialists, and peer specialists. Complex ethical and legal issues are arising within the performance of these roles for which little guidance can be found within the existing literature [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
The report provides considered recommendations for framing appropriate responses coordinated at the regional level, via regional and international coordinating mechanisms and donors [Australian National Council on Drugs]
An uncorrected transcript of evidence [Committee of Public Accounts, Parliament, UK]
Scottish Ministers asked Young Scot to deliver a Youth Commission on Alcohol, one of the actions identified in Changing Scotland’s Relationship with Alcohol: A Framework for Action published by the Scottish Government in March 2009. The brief was to support young people to make suggestions for policy and action to change Scotland’s culture in relation to alcohol [Young Scot, UK]
After a range of meetings with high profile industry experts, five intense residentials and two international study visits, the ground-breaking Youth Commission on Alcohol has come to an end {long download} [Young Scot, UK]
This advice to the Sentencing Guidelines Council makes proposals in relation to the sentencing of the most commonly sentenced drug offences. It considers those offences which derive from conduct intended to bring illicit drugs into circulation (including importation, production and supply) as well as those relating to possession and use [Sentencing Advisory Panel, UK]
This strategic intelligence assessment presents a marketbased analysis of the risk posed by illicit drug markets in Queensland, with a particular focus on organised criminal involvement in those markets [Crime and Misconduct Commission, Queensland, Australia]
