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Personal
Story of Kevin Manley: The Film |
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Today, Wired In releases the film
version of Kevin's Personal Story, made by Jonathan Kerr-Smith
in association with Lucie James, which focuses on Kevin's 15-year
addiction to illicit drugs and subsequent experiences in finding
his path to recovery [the prof speaks out] |
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The Wired In 'Way Forward' |
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Please check Daily Dose on Wednesday to
see and comment upon the Wired In 'Way Forward' |
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Drugs,
your community, your say - the consultation con |
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A stunning 1,020 responses. Yep, just 1,020
from a UK population of nearly 60,000,000. Unbelievable [UKCIA] |
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Scots
child diagnosed with rare drink-related disease |
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Korsakoff's syndrome, sometimes known as "wet
brain", normally affects males aged between 40 and 59 years
and females between 30 and 49 years [The Scotsman, UK] |
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Reminder
that voluntary treatment referral on arrest also worked |
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Though mandatory testing and referral to treatment
assessment are now the order of the day in Britain, this national
study of arrest referral suggested that predecessor voluntary
schemes reached many thousands of criminally active but previously
untreated drug users and contributed to reductions in drug use
and crime. Print publication 2003 [Drug and Alcohol Findings,
UK |
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Recidivism
reduced by rehabilitation-oriented court for drug-related offenders |
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From Australia the first randomised evaluation
of a drug court outside the USA has confirmed that by tightly
integrating rehabilitation-oriented criminal justice supervision
with treatment, they reduce reoffending compared to normal adjudication.
Print publication 2003 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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Routine
school drug prevention programme helps delay regular drinking |
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From the Netherlands, a rare indication that
a real-world, school-based drug prevention programme occupying
just a few lessons a year may retard growth in substance use
(especially regular drinking and to a lesser extent regular smoking)
in the early teenage years. Print publication 2003 [Drug and
Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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The
business of treatment |
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Apparently there has been some turmoil at Hazelden
over a new CEO's modernization of their business practices ...
It seems to be an era of entrepreneurship in addiction treatment
and I find that pretty frightening [Addiction and Recovery News,
USA] |
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Huge
effort needed to combat gangs and drugs - PM |
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Prime Minister Helen Clark says the Government
has been putting money and effort into tackling the problem of
gangs and drugs, and a huge effort is needed to get on top of
it [New Zealand Herald] |
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Afghanistan
- More provinces poppy-free, but opium production still high |
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The government’s ongoing battle to eliminate
opium production has had partial success in 2008 in that there
are now about 20 provinces in the north, east and northeast of
the country which are poppy-free, up from 16 in 2007, according
to the Afghan Ministry of Counter-Narcotics [IRIN] |
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