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Distinguished voices are lining up behind England’s chief medical officer Liam Donaldson in support of a minimum price for alcohol [British Medical Journal, UK]
The qualitative study of the Drug Treatment Outcomes Research Study (DTORS) was designed to explore treatment providers’ and treatment seekers’ perspectives on the factors influencing the effectiveness of drug misuse treatment in England [University of Manchester’s National Drug Evidence Centre and Home Office, UK]
The overriding finding is that treatment reduces the harmful behaviours that are associated with problem drug use [University of Manchester’s National Drug Evidence Centre and Home Office, UK]
Population health tends to be better in societies where income is more equally distributed. Recent evidence suggests that many other social problems, including mental illness, violence, imprisonment, lack of trust, teenage births, obesity, drug abuse, and poor educational performance of schoolchildren, are also more common in more unequal societies [Universities of Nottingham and York, UK]
What comes first the chicken or the egg? In alcohol dependence, the question becomes; what comes first, the depression or alcoholism? And, I suppose what needs to be tackled first? [David McCartney, Wired In]
I was totally disgusted at the use of words in the following article which was written by Jasper Hamill. The title of this article is Doctors Criticise ‘Reckless’ Drug Abuse Guidance. The end result I am seeking here is that Herald Scotland should retract this article and apologies should be given for their use of words [KieCon01, Wired In]
Greetings one and all. Well that was the week that was, and what a week it was. Say it fast for a good oral work-out – who needs botox? This week my virtual and real worlds collided in a very positive way at the National Recovery Walk/Emerging Recovery Organisations planning meeting in Glasgow [Michaela, Wired In]
Or how I used booze and dope to get me by. Although booze is a powerful depressant and not exactly helpful to one subject to long periods of clinical depression, cannabis is a good cover for hypomania – I might have been thinking manic thoughts but being stoned was a powerful way of keeping me in check so that I did not actually do anything [Warriet, Wired In]
This was also the same day I had my last drink of alcohol at 8am in morning, shaking all over with my bottle of vodka and can of lager in my hands while waiting for someone to collect me from home to drive me through to the detox centre [Brian Morrison, Vimeo]
William talks about the treatments and beliefs held about addiction through history, and the need to remain humble. [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
William talks about the development of addiction treatment industries and the need to reconnect treatment to recovery. He talks about the need for the treatment and grassroots systems of support to be connected [Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
In November last year, the Home Office, Department of Health and Department of Children, Schools and Families in partnership with colleagues in the North West hosted the 4th National Alcohol Conference, “Safe Sensible Social: Supporting Delivery” in Liverpool [Alcohol Policy, UK]
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]
Children of alcoholics can escape the emotional chaos at home with the right support. Here, three young people explain how their lives have been changed [Times, UK]
by William L White: The purpose of this document is twofold. First, it provides an overview of key findings drawn from historical and scientific research on social/professional stigma related to addiction to illicit drugs, with a particular focus on the stigma experienced by people in medication-assisted treatment and long-term medication-assisted recovery [Faces and Voices of Recovery, USA]
… it is critical to know the population – its needs, strengths, and resources. Equally critical is awareness of the rehabilitation and reentry capability of the institutions that serve as ‘home’ for this population for years and in many cases decades [Rutgers University, USA]
Patrick McGorry is an inspired choice for Australian of the Year, even if he is not – as has been routinely pointed out this week – a household name. The lack of name recognition is of little relevance when set against the importance and relevance of Professor McGorry’s mission: improving the mental health of young people [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
The US is slowly shedding the extremes of its long-standing war on drugs, as are other countries in Europe and South America. Australia cannot remain isolated from these powerful international trends [Alex Wodak, Australian]
The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that, across all nations, 160 million people used cannabis in the course of 2005, 4% of the global adult populations – far more than the number that used any other illicit drug, though far less than the number that consumed alcohol or tobacco [The Beckley Foundation, UK]
In this Report, the aim has been to draw on the available evidence to offer some possible paths forward to a more realistic and effective global regime for cannabis control [The Beckley Foundation, UK]
This paper contributes to recent debates surrounding the improvement of the UN drug control system’s methods of gathering and analyzing data. It critically examines the current predominance of quantitative evidence, arguing for a greater emphasis on the cultural understanding of drug use and more attention to the taken-for-granted assumptions underpinning policies [International Drug Policy Consortium]
Sweden’s drug policies have recently attained symbolic status in international policy debates. This paper examines the country’s policies, their effectiveness or otherwise and the histrorical and cultural context that underpins them. It considers whether these policies should or could be applied in other countries [International Drug Policy Consortium]
The once closed debate on drugs policy shows signs of opening up. But liberalisation would require the international restrictions on narcotics which do untold harm to the developing world to be relaxed [Open Democracy, UK]
People who use drugs in Cambodia are at risk of arbitrary detention in centers where they suffer torture, physical and sexual violence, and other forms of cruel punishment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today [Human Rights Watch]
