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For the first time in the UK, the relationship between alcohol consumption and mortality has been calculated. The research indicates a definitive link: the higher our society’s alcohol consumption, the more deaths occur as a result [Alcohol Concern, UK]
Bizarrely, it’s in a back room in Tottenham – at least, the bit that relates to evaluating interventions. For 10 years Drug and Alcohol Findings has been collecting, analysing and disseminating evaluation research. Here’s how it started, and how it became the custodian of the largest working drug and alcohol library in Britain [Drug & Alcohol Findings, UK]
Keith Humphreys and colleagues report on a workgroup of US experts on substance abuse self-help organisations. Main conclusion: self-help groups are too valuable to leave to chance. They should be actively promoted and facilitated by treatment services and policymakers. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Motivational interviewing is the most influential counselling style in addiction treatment, and, believe it or not, it works best ‘freestyle’ – WITHOUT the manual. At first we didn’t believe what we’d found, but later it was confirmed by Bill Miller himself, even through he wrote some of the manuals. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
UK Drug Worker Forum Conference Presentation by Ian Wardle [Lifeline, UK]
The New Recovery Advocacy Movement is in part a declaration that we recovering people should be speaking for ourselves. We should be playing a part in shaping the knowledge base of addiction medicine and addiction counselling as well as having a role in shaping social policies that affect the lives of addicted and recovering people [Annemarie, Wired In]
For the most part, they are being seen by people who don’t understand what recovery is, who don’t have the skills or experience needed to help people find recovery and if you are on methadone, don’t even think of going near abstinence, you’ll be told ‘it’s too dangerous’ [Peapod, Wired In]
So today… I received an appointment. The appointment is for Thursday, 15th of October at 10.30 am. I received the letter at 3.00 pm on the 15th October… The letter says if you have difficulty getting to this appointment please let us know. Do you think lack of time travel ability is a valid excuse? [Louis, Wired In]
Witnesses to HOC Home Affairs Committee: Steve Rolles (Transform), Professor Neil McKeganey (Centre for Drug Misuse Research, Glasgow University), Mitch Winehouse & Sarah Graham [parliament.uk]
George Williams presents the first programme of Series 4 – Inexcess Live. Includes Noreen Oliver, Kendra Grey and Rob Wooley giving us an insight into BAC O’Connor and the great work they are carrying out in the West Midlands {25’30”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
The article concludes by suggesting that prolific and enduring weekend polydrug repertoires within local leisure scenes increasingly polarize such scenes from drug use in the general population, with implications for policing and governance, alongside the need for a more nuanced understanding of the night time economy as an analytical concept in social research [Criminology and Criminal Justice, UK]
Akmal Shaikh’s family and lawyer have argued that he is mentally ill… According to Hong Kong and international media, Shaikh had been tricked by a criminal gang in Poland, where he had been living. Please send message using provided form [Amnesty International UK]
In response to the evidence, Zurich Community Trust (ZCT) and Addaction established a partnership to develop an innovative project called Breaking the Cycle (BtC), to support and empower families where parents have substance misuse issues to improve their family functioning and family life and to provide an environment where their children can thrive [Addaction, UK]
A rising tide of super-cheap supermarket alcohol deals is contributing to the big increase in alcohol-related harm in the North West, according to a mystery shopper survey conducted by North West wellbeing and health campaigners, Our Life [Our Life, UK]
Journalist Karen Day documents her visits to four communities to illustrate the impact of the recession on the lives of the people who live there. Four very different communities – Gellideg in Merthyr Tydfil, Hedworth in Jarrow, South Tyneside, Broadgreen in Swindon and Barkerend in Bradford… [Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK]
DrugScope’s response to the New Horizons consultation has a particular concern with the relationship between substance misuse and mental health problems, and the complex and multiple needs that often accompany ‘dual diagnosis’. We have therefore restricted our response to comments on these issues… [Drugscope, UK]
In a study examining the reason why people drink, only 35 per cent of Scots said they drink in moderation, while the rest said they drink excessively [The Scotsman, UK]
An alternative or complimentary approach – one reflecting a recovery paradigm – focuses on changes in recovery incidence (number of new people entering recovery each year) and prevalence (total number of people in recovery) and on changes in recovery support resources at the community level [Faces and Voices of Recovery, USA]
An emergent theory of motivational interviewing MI is proposed, emphasizing two specific active components: a relational component focused on empathy and the interpersonal spirit of MI, and a technical component involving the differential evocation and reinforcement of client change talk [American Psychologist, USA]
The federal government should not be harassing sick people and their caregivers. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has made the right decision, calling off prosecutions of patients who use marijuana for medical purposes or those who distribute it to them — provided they comply with state law [New York Times Editorial, USA]
The 2009 United Nations World Drug report notes that 2009 marks “the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)”, and that the illicit drug market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per-year industry. Collected here are a handful of recent images from the rough world of illegal drugs across the globe (37 photos total) [Boston Globe, USA]
Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of needle and syringe programs in Australia [National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Australia]
How we tackle the problems associated with consumption of our favourite drug, alcohol, is a real challenge [Margaret Hamilton in The Australian, UK]
He was bright and charming, with a gift for writing and a talent for water polo. But then he found a new interest – crystal meth. In this heartbreakingly frank account, David Sheff recounts the horror and helplessness of watching his teenage boy destroy himself – and the sense of hope a parent never loses [Observer, UK]
