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Daily Dose is maintained by WIRED.
WIRED was developed six years ago by David Clark, a Professor
of Psychology at University of Wales, Swansea, as a way of
empowering people to tackle substance misuse. It aims to:
- Provide the information, support and tools that people
require to help them overcome or reduce their substance
use problem;
- Improve the quality of services in the community provided
to people with a substance use problem and their families
and carers;
- Raise awareness and understanding of substance misuse,
the problems it creates and the ways to deal with these
problems.
WIRED is a grass roots initiative that merges real world
activities with an exceptionally high profile web based communication
system, for the purpose of disseminating information, providing
support, education and training, conducting research, and
amplifying the capacity of already successful programmes to
reach their audiences.
WIRED has a small core team, the majority working in their
spare time. It has the assistance of a range of professionals,
and access to an ongoing programme of support and engagement
with users, ex-users, and their families.
Meet
the WIRED team >
Daily Dose was launched in January 2001 and is the world's
leading news service on drug and alcohol misuse. The web site
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| Jim
Young - Editor of Daily Dose |
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The news and information in Daily Dose is researched
by Jim Young.
Jim - who is also a trained nurse - works full time
in molecular biology research at the Medical
School, University of Wales, Swansea. He is also
a freelance medical writer and has a regular monthly
column in The Southern
Medical Journal, USA.
Jim is a keen swimmer
and swims in
the sea all through the year! Jim also enjoys photography
and he runs a daily photo weblog
for expats from Swansea.
Jim is an ardent collector of PhD theses and has four
on his shelf at home belonging to both his sons and
their wives!
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