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Reaching
Out to Those People Who Wish to Support the Recovery Movement |
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This Recovery Movement aims to facilitate the
development of a culture of recovery in the drug and alcohol
addictions field. This culture of recovery will facilitate the
efforts of individuals and families to overcome problems caused
by substance use. It will also improve the way that organisations,
communities and the nation as a whole help people find their
personal path to recovery from addiction [the prof speaks out] |
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DATs: "Treble
patients in rehab" |
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10% of the 128,000 people desperately seeking
help for their drug problems should be offered rehab or another
drug-free choice of treatment by the Drug Action Teams, stated
Nick Lawrence, head of Alcohol, Drugs & Tobacco Policy at
the Department of Health. This was in response to a question
posed by Addiction Today highlighting that DAT commisisoners
currently place only 3.6% of patients into rehab, according to
figues from the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse
[Addiction Today, UK] |
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Quango
Creep and Labour’s State Hegemony by Kathy Gyngell |
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How did the Price Waterhouse Review [Review
of Prison Based Drug Treatment Funding] arrive at these conclusions
so confidently and so uncritically? How could they be so utterly
unaware that the approach of the National Treatment Agency (another
Quango) that their plans mirror, has been laid bare like the
emporer’s new clothes? [Kathy Gyngell, blog, CPS, UK] |
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Drug
hospital celebrates its 20th birthday |
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Castle Craig Hospital, in West Linton, near
Edinburgh, has treated more than 7000 people since 1988 [Edinburgh
Evening News, UK] |
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Licensing
Act has no impact on drink-fuelled violence for most |
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A survey of police, the NHS and councils has
found that most of them consider that the 2003 Licensing Act
has made no impact on improving drink-fuelled disorder or late
night violence [LGA, UK] |
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Solo
attempt at battling drugs |
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A company which hires out drug dogs to businesses
and schools [Drug Education News, UK] |
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Police
chief's gang culture warning |
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Gang culture based on drugs and violence has
replaced family to become a way of life for "almost feral
groups" of young people, according to a leading chief constable
[Daily Express, UK] |
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Smokefree
England - one year on |
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A report examining the impact of the smokefree
law, one year on since it was introduced in England on 1 July
2007 [DoH, UK] |
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US
Scientists Visit Iceland’s Center of Addiction Medicine |
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A group of scientists from the US National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) are currently in Iceland to explore
a possible cooperation on research with Iceland’s National
Center of Addiction Medicine [Iceland Review] |
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Young
people and drugs among 15-24 year olds |
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Analytical report May 2008. 102-page PDF [Europa] |
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Not
Winning the War on Drugs |
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Above all, the next administration must put
much more effort into curbing demand — spending more on
treating drug addicts and less on putting them in jail ... Over
all, drug abuse must be seen more as a public health concern
and not primarily a law enforcement problem. Editorial [New York
Times, USA] |
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New
Report Finds Highest-Ever Levels of THC in U.S. Marijuana |
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Increased Potency of Smoked Marijuana May Be
Responsible for Serious Mental Health Consequences for Teens
[Pushing Back, ONDCP, USA] |
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Measuring
Developmental Changes in Alcohol Expectancies |
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The goal of this study was to measure shifts
in alcohol expectancies from childhood into adolescence while
controlling for changes in the psychometric properties of the
instrument [RAND, USA] |
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Toward
a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use |
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Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys.
15-page PDF [PLoS] |
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New
ways to crack opium |
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Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick
Keelty's trip to Afghanistan throws the spotlight on the Taliban's
drug trade [The Australian] |
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Government-Controlled
Opium Production Is Way of Life in Turkey |
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The drugs are then processed for medical use
and sold through a U.N. agency that regulates sales. As Dorian
Jones reports, the success of the program in Turkey has some
wondering if the lessons could be applied in other countries,
like Afghanistan, where illegal drug production has exploded
[Voice of America] |
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