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Ed Mitchell was invited to the Royal College of Medicine in Wimpole Street to listen to two of the leaders from the world of medicine and addiction {7’25”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
The findings from the pilot indicate that the roll-out of peer support working across mental health services in Scotland, and beyond, would have a positive impact for service users and mental health teams [Scottish Government, UK]
The National Delivery Plan of the Health and Criminal Justice Programme Board {Department of Health, UK]
For the study, researchers from University College London followed 150 people over a year to see if changes in their ketamine use could predict changes in their psychological well-being, memory and concentration [Addiction, UK]
This report presents interim findings from the evaluation of the first pilot Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) in Britain. FDAC is a new approach to care proceedings, in cases where parental substance misuse is a key element in the local authority decision to bring proceedings [Brunel University, UK]
This is not a good time of the year for me – approaching the anniversary of our son, Robin’s death from a heroin overdose in November 1997. I don’t want him just to be remembered for the circumstances of his death but rather for what he was and what he achieved in his all too short life [Irene MacDonald, Wired In]
Continuing the theme of coping with intense feelings during some of the difficult times in the process of recovery, I find that sometimes the following metaphor is useful to help people deal with overwhelming emotion and troublesome memories [Masha Bennett, Wired In]
Brought up on Booze on BBC One last night (11/11/09) was a moving insight into the damage that an alcoholic can cause to those around him or her – particularly to children. Made with Children in Need, George Best’s son, Calum, struggled to come to terms with the loss of his father four years ago… [Ed Mitchell, Inexcess TV, UK]
Julian describes his view that the war on drugs is not rational {1’18”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Release’s intensive lobbying against government plans to introduce mandatory drug treatment into the welfare benefit system has resulted in success [Release, UK]
Detox is just as much about the psychological as the physical and services ignore this at their peril, argue Nick Barton and Tina Mobsby [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Recovery can mean many things to many people. DDN reports from a DrugScope conference that aimed to put it all in context {Drink and Drugs News, UK]
The sensational sacking of Professor David Nutt seems to have come out of nowhere. But the science of drugs and politics have been heading for a showdown since 2001 [Drugscope, UK]
The conference “Recovery Communities and the Drug Treatment System” was held in Birmingham on 27th October and attracted a large number of delegates to hear presentations from a range of speakers [NTA, UK]
A partnership between university researchers and police in Cardiff to reduce alcohol-related violence has been given an award… Cardiff University was honoured with a Queen’s Anniversary Award in London [BBC, UK]
by Insoo Kim Berg and Scott D. Miller: ‘A cogent and wise handbook for applying solution-oriented brief treatment techniques for working with substance abuse’ [Amazon, UK]
This briefing summarizes good practices in legislative reforms around the world, representing steps away from a repressive zero-tolerance model towards a more evidence-based and humane drug policy [Transnational Institute, Netherlands]
The authors examined the effect of a large reduction in the price of alcohol in Finland in 2004 on alcohol-related mortality by age and socioeconomic group… Alcohol-related mortality increased by 16% among men and by 31% among women; 82% of the increase was due to chronic causes, particularly liver diseases [American Journal of Epidemiology, USA]
You can now learn about anti-discrimination laws that protect people in recovery and those with criminal records by taking one of the Legal Action Center’s free webinars at any time or consulting any of the written m materials from the Center’s “Know Your Rights” training project [Legal Action Center, USA]
THis white paper has been developed as a resource for States, organizations, and communities embarking on or strengthening systems change efforts to develop recovery-oriented systems of care [SAMHSA, USA]
Today, both Phillip Valentine and CCAR are on a clear path of sustaining a volunteer network – many of them people in recovery – that has emerged as an international model for recovery advocacy [Hartford Business, USA]
On October 30 2008, the NSW Premier announced the imposition of licence restrictions on 48 of the licensed premises previously identified as sites where violence frequently occurred [New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Australia]
The aim of the current study was to estimate how methamphetamine users would respond to changes in the prices of methamphetamine and heroin, using hypothetical drug purchasing scenarios [NSW Bureau of Crime
Statistics and Research, Australia]
Or does methadone stop addicts from tackling the causes of dependency. Experts and users are divided about the merits of this ‘maintenance’ approach compared to the more robust alternative of rehab. Elizabeth Day listens to arguments from both sides [Observer, UK]
