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Many of you will be aware of the SDRC from previous blogs and discussions on Wired In. Well, here’s an update and more information about the SDRC as we are now up and running. Our membership will be drawn from Scotland but we are very keen to link across the broader UK Recovery networks [Dougie Paterson, Wired In]
Read a full round up from the DDN/Alliance National service user involvement conference [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
“Reduction in harm caused by problem drug use presents a complex and chronic challenge. This is being addressed by a series of strategies and programmes and very substantial resources: £1.2 billion a year. It is achieving improved results but we need to learn from experience as we go forward and measure effectiveness and value for money in order to make appropriate adjustments to programmes [National Audit Office, UK]
We already know much about how addiction behaves. To package it as a short term problem, cured at six months by treatment is unhelpful. Not to mention mutual aid is curious. If I were cynical, I’d be concluding that either the authors are not knowledgeable of how cocaine addiction behaves, or they want to put a positive spin on things. Neither is admirable [Peapod, Wired In]
More people are using powder cocaine, more people are seeking help for dependency, and more are being successfully treated, according to the results of the largest ever study into the effectiveness of treatment for powder cocaine dependency in England [NTA, UK]
This DrugScope document was published last week following a similar look at adult treatment last year… The word recovery is mentioned in this paper only three times. All in the same paragraph on page 30. That’s out of 65 pages. From a recovery perspective, it’s worse than the Cross Government Drugs Research Strategy and that was dire [Peapod, Wired In]
I have previously emphasised the primary importance of treatment and treatment professionals: to facilitate the person’s natural healing processes to help them find personal recovery. I recently found an excellent description of what is required of professionals working in the field in The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model… [David Clark, Wired In]
I have been shocked recently to see people who I know to be good workers so disillusioned, angry, and upset. And leaving! And do you know what they are blaming it on – Recovery! Now of course its not Recovery that has made their jobs intolerable. That’s just the word that they see and blame for the changes they have been subjected to [Melody, Wired In]
Bitterness, resentment, accusation. None of these things happened for me – it was a warm, healing meeting. Yes it was difficult and painful, I think both of us were anxious. L gave me a hug when she saw me and we sat and chatted for nearly two hours. Her honesty and humility were a credit to her depth of personality [Susan C, Wired In]
I would like to tell Perry’s story. Of his descent into heroin addiction and his untimely death. Perry was 18 when he came to his mother and myself to tell us he had a problem. Right here we go again. It wasn’t the first time he came to us with a problem. But what a problem! [Keith F, Wired In]
We are really pleased (and I mean really, really and thrice really) to announce that our own Professor Clark, Mark Gilman and Phil Valentine will be speaking at the above conference. For those of you who may not know about Phil, he is Executive Director for the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) and has been an integral component in this recovery community organisation since January 1999 [Michaela, Wired In]
So in the spirit of all things new and leaping-lamb-like I have renamed this blog. Now it may not seem like much to you but change is afoot and this is my humble reflection of the amazing things that are still to come. And I really think they will, you know [MIchaela, Wired In]
This text provides a brief summary of key Brief Intervention research findings from the last three decadesand discusses a number of knowledge gaps that need to be addressed [Addiction, UK]
[Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
UN-commissioned guidance from international experts on how to mount prevention programmes involving parents and children in a joint effort to improve family dynamics and child development [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
The home affairs select committee (HASC) yesterday published its report on the cocaine trade, and what a woeful job they have done… The current report lacks evidence, contradicts current expert thinking and, frankly, panders to a “tough on drugs” stance that by their own admission does not work [Niamh Eastwood of Release, Guardian, UK]
Any successful policy against cocaine must address both supply-side enforcement and demand reduction. To co-ordinate action across the many disparate government agencies, we recommend the appointment of an Independent Drugs Advisor to ensure that Government drugs policy is fully implemented, and in an integrated manner [UK Government]
In a study published today in the journal Addiction, researchers in the United States have discovered that accidental overdose deaths involving cocaine rise when the average weekly ambient temperature passes 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit) [Addiction, UK]
The UK’s only residential rehab centre for young people worked where other schemes failed. But short-termism has closed it [Kathy Gyngell, Guardian, UK]
Worldwide coverage of HIV prevention, treatment, and care services in IDU populations is very low. There is an urgent need to improve coverage of these services in this at-risk population [Lancet Abstract, UK]
The federal law that mandates harsher prison terms for people arrested with crack cocaine than for those caught with cocaine powder is scientifically and morally indefensible. Bills to end the disparity are pending in both the House and Senate [New York Times Editorial, USA]
… only 11% receive any treatment [CASA, Columbia University, USA]
This drug policy guide was compiled in 2009 through research and consultation with our network of experts. It aims to provide our regional and national partners with a resource that they can use to conduct reviews of the national drug policies and programmes in their areas, and engage with policy-makers to work towards policy and programme improvements [International Drug Policy Consortium]
Contrary to what is commonly assumed, psychoactive drugs do not produce fixed and predictable psychological effects that are dependent purely on their chemical properties [Wired In]
