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After nine years continuous service, Daily Dose makes a last entrance today, 26th March 2010. Sadly, we have been unable to attract sufficient sponsorship to continue operating. The site will remain so that you can continue to use our archive, which dates back to 1st January, 2002… As Editor and Founder of Daily Dose, I would like to take this opportunity of thanking our 8,000 subscribers for their continued support… I leave you with just a few of my favourite links. [David Clark, Wired In]
Considerable effort is underway in the United States to transform behavioral health care toward the goal of supporting the long-term recovery of individuals and families. Achieving this goal requires new organizational partnerships, refined strategies of collaboration, fresh approaches to policy and clinical decision-making, and a fundamental restructuring of relationships throughout the system of care [IRETA, USA]
A new version of the book, ‘Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity’, provides the most compelling case yet for fiscal and regulatory measures to reduce the harm caused by alcohol and the importance of not allowing the alcohol industry to set the agenda and propose largely ineffective policies that rely on provision of information alone [Addiction Editorial, UK]
5 key challenges for supporting families affected by drug and alcohol use [Adfam, UK]
Data from largest alcohol treatment trial in Britain is used to address possibly the most contentious issue in the field – whether services should offer moderation as well as abstinence goals to dependent clients [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Professor McLellan was invited by Mike Ashton of Drug and Alcohol Findings to speak at the National Addiction Centre. The event was hosted by the NAC, organised by Drug and Alcohol Findings, Drugscope and Conference Consortium {36’57”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
In the first few months of my recovery I was summonsed to a Dept. of Works and Pensions medical to see whether I really was unfit for work. It was my first real encounter with stigma. My sick line simply said “addiction” as the diagnosis [Peapod, Wired In]
I took my first drink at the age of 13 whilst on my first holiday abroad in Greece. Amstel beer. I remember it well, the feeling, the confidence and exuberance I radiated. People liked me! I was funny! The adults would give me more beer to make them laugh! For a child that had been withdrawn for most of my life, this was amazing [Adam Berry, Wired In]
It’s our graduation today from our aftercare and resettlement service in Trafford. I’m so nervous at the moment. Been up since 5. I don’t have to talk there but I want to. I’ve spent hours and hours trying to get all I want to say into a few words
All of you I miss. The warmth of your embrace, the way you made me laugh, how you made me feel. Powerful, loved, excited, alive, superior. How you made me unable to feel, devoid of emotion, carefree. So complete, so wanted, so much a part of something special, so subversive, so unique [Tony, Wired In]
And what am I going to do about it? Well, lots of things. But most of all I will be walking on 25th September in Glasgow. We have a new slogan for the UK Recovery Walk, ‘We make the path by walking it’ [Michaela, Wired In]
General price increases were effective for reduction of consumption, health-care costs, and health-related quality of life losses in all population subgroups {Lancet Abstract, UK]
The proposed policies serve the industry’s interests at the expense of public health by attempting to enshrine ‘active participation of all levels of the beverage alcohol industry as a key partner in the policy formulation and implementation process’ [Addiction, UK]
In this special online-only dossier, we bring together some of our key investigations and feature stories on cocaine, including the first reporting of a two-tier market in the drug and the spread of its use to blue collar workers [Drugscope, UK]
One unintended consequence of current medicines legislation is to leave distributors of ‘legal highs’ unable to disclose the true purpose of their product. General commonsense precautions that apply to any psychoactive drug cannot be given without risking prosecution. The dilemma is what to do between the appearance of a problem, risk assessment and the inevitable but uncertain legislative response [Addiction Editorial, UK]
Chaired by journalist and author Simon Jenkins, this seminar examined how new recovery-based models of drug and alcohol treatment could give greater power and resources to individuals with more involvement of family and community [Institute for Public Policy Research, UK]
Over recent days, a full-blown moral panic has erupted over the spread of mephedrone, a new and currently legal drug that has apparently become something of an overnight sensation among the UK’s young people [Release, UK]
With drugs in the picture, lives are often at stake, whether from addiction, adverse drug effects, or the risks that go along with emotional crisis and madness. Combined with the confusing messages from society about drugs, the result is a lot of fear. Drugs become demons or angels. We need to stay on them at all costs, or get off them at all costs [The Icarus Project and Freedom Center, USA]
Classic Conference Report, Washington, D.C. September 28-29, 2005 [SAMHSA, USA]
Within your mental health and/or addictions treatment, a “recovery plan”, sometimes called a treatment plan or service plan, is the document that you create with your team to help plan how you want to move forward towards your goals.
By Phillip A. Valentine, William L. White and Pat Taylor [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
by William L White: Treatment Works is the central promotional slogan of the addiction treatment industry. This essay argues that the slogan misrepresents the probable outcomes of addiction treatment and misplaces the responsibility for such outcomes [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
by Mark Ragins: The medical model tends to define recovery in negative terms. Symptoms and complaints need to be eliminated. Illnesses need to be cured or removed. Patients need to be relieved of their conditions and returned to their premorbid, healthy, or more accurately not-ill state [The Village, USA]
Through our long-standing partnership with the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction services, PRCH has developed a comprehensive set of recovery-oriented practice guidelines which offer specific guidance on how to translate the concept of recovery into the concrete day-to-day practice of behavioral health care practitioners and systems [Yale School of Medicine, USA]
The Transtheoretical Model has its origins in early research of James Prochaska who… acknowledged that no single therapeutic approach had been shown to be more ‘correct’ than others. He recognised the necessity to ‘unwrap’ the various approaches to reveal the key elements that are required to help people overcome their problems [Wired In]
