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Putting Recovery on the world’s stage – Nearly 1000 people lined the streets of Liverpool to celebrate Recovery for the first time. “This is no longer about the problems of addiction, its about the solutions and these people prove that”. Hope is a word that many used for years, now its belief [Inexcess TV, UK]
In this first US randomised trial, starting methadone maintenance in prison radically improved treatment uptake on release, cut heroin and cocaine use, and may have saved lives [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
The authors used data from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) to prepare their analysis [NTA, UK]
This evaluation of an intensive child protection service for the children of substance misusing parents was the first in Britain to recruit an adequate comparison sample, a vital step in assessing effectiveness. Main finding was reduced need for long-term removal from the home [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Immunization with an experimental anti-cocaine vaccine resulted in a substantial reduction in cocaine use in 38 percent of vaccinated patients in a clinical trial supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse [NIDA, USA]
I have not experienced debilitating depression for many years. Financial security and comfort have become a reality. I don’t have a disease over which I am powerless, and that non-disease isn’t out in the parking lot doing push-ups [mikeblamedenial, Wired In]
I have been translating Bill White’s ‘A Primer for Addiction Treatment Professionals and Recovery Advocates’ into the kind of language uchooseit volunteers speak. This is not about dumbing down or questioning people’s intellectual capacity. It’s about recognising that there are powerful themes, arguments and knowledge out there that we don’t all have the tools to extract [Michaela, Wired In]
One third of deaths related to HIV in the United Kingdom could be prevented if testing for the disease were more widespread and more socially acceptable, says a summary of guidelines published on 1 October [British Medical Journal]
In this report we outline the results of a study funded by the Scottish Government and the University of Glasgow to provide estimates of the prevalence of problem drug misuse in Scotland [Drug Misuse Information Scotland, UK]
Roadside drug testing trial with UK police force announced [Concateno, UK]
NHS Direct has launched a new online health checker to provide help and advice for people concerned about their mental health or wellbeing. This supports the aim of World Mental Health Day to enhance treatment for this often misunderstood illness [NHS Direct, UK]
An Interview with Thomas A. Kirk, Jr., PhD By William L. White, MA [Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center, USA]
Can we create a fairer adult social care system? The recent Green Paper shows that the Government has moved on from previous statements on adult social care [Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK]
The latest statistics for Substance Misuse in Wales produced by the Welsh Assembly Government Department for Social Justice and Local Government, were released on 7 October 2009 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority [Welsh Assembly Government, UK]
As part of the NTA ‘Harm Reduction Works Campaign’ Exchange Supplies have developed an online ‘coverage calculator’ to help estimate the extent to which the number of syringes being distributed to illicit drug injectors [Harm Reduction Works, UK]
The Conservative party’s announcement this week that “if you can work, you should work” is the latest indication of the trend towards dealing more harshly with drug and alcohol users who receive welfare payments [Release, UK]
The latest update. September 2009 [SMMGP, UK]
An Interview with Phillip Valentine [Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center, USA]
Old habits die hard. The latest figures on drug treatment in England show that despite despite a new drugs strategy stressing the importance of helping users get clean, the proportion of addicts getting into rehab is stuck at just 2% [BBC, UK]
Mental health care, including addiction, has traditionally run on a separate but very unequal track, compared to primary health care. Of the more than 450 million people around the world who suffer from a mental disorder, it is estimated that fewer than half receive medical help of any kind [Addiction Inbox, USA]
Recovery begins here – The year in numbers – Sustaining recovery – Changing behaviour – Joined-up thinking for better outcomes – Information value – The grass-roots response – NTA board and staff. 16-page PDF [NTA, UK]
Annual NDTMS report. 1 April 2008 – 31 March 2009 [NTA, UK]
I wonder if people are glossing over an inconvenient reality: many clients relapse within days of completing treatment, if not before [Telegraph, UK]
A new documentary on the latest steps to recovery of former BBC and ITN broadcaster, Ed Mitchell, is broadcast exclusively on Inexcess TV [Inexcess TV, UK]
