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UKESAD is to be televised for the first time in 2009 in an exclusive broadcasting deal with Inexcess, the broadband TV show for addiction and recovery [UKESAD, UK]
Lee talks to us about his addiction with crack cocaine and how he tried to take his own life. He tells us how his self belief was rebuilt at SHARP, and how he got the courage to start liking himself and begin changing his life for the better [Inexcess TV, UK]
… he looked in the old man’s eyes, they were empty… no one lived there any more… the horrible tragedy had drained the life out of him just as effectively as the bomb had bled his daughter in law and the unborn child to death… [Dawg Blog, WIred In]
An interactive computer program may offer a way to overcome the shortage of trained cognitive-behavioural therapists; supplementing routine counselling by program access twice a week reduced substance use by a third at a US counselling service dealing mainly with cocaine and alcohol users [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
In the biggest surprise of the night, Electric Radio, which broadcasts to the south London jail’s 800 inmates, took two gold gongs at the Sony Radio Awards, in the listener participation and community categories [Times, UK]
“For trying to help people, say in social work, you need to have certain qualities… some people just aren’t cut out for it and some people are.” [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
These are the ingredients of “emotional sobriety,” one of my favorite terms from the recovery programs and my personal aim (right now). These steps represent a paradigmatic shift: from a life of self-gratification to one of compassionate commitment to others [GuyInGHo Blog, WIred In]
A shocking new report by a mental health group shows the recession is causing almost 40 per cent of men to be worried or feel low [politics.co.uk]
This one day conference is relevant to health care practitioners, researchers, students and policy makers with an interest in midwifery, obstetrics, general practice, paediatrics, epidemiology and alcohol related disorders [Oxford Brookes University, UK]
This is an important – and challenging – programme of work, and within the Drug Systems Change Pilot, these partnerships will be given freedoms and flexibilities to explore innovative approaches that, if successful, will help to determine the future direction of regional and local drug funding, commissioning and delivery systems [NTA, UK]
This is the first time a poll has shown more than 50% of Americans favouring marijuana legalisation [Guardian, UK]
Even in good times, life for poor working women can be an obstacle-filled struggle to get by. In bad times, it can be hell [Alternet, USA]
The importance of social relationships with other drug users within the adoption of injection drug use highlights the potential of social interventions to prevent injection initiation [SATPP, USA]
The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) is intended to serve as a strategic early warning system, identifying emerging trends of local and national concern in illicit drug markets {long download} [National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia]
There have been substantial increases in the volume of khat being imported into Australia, however there is little systematic evidence of a consequent rise in harms associated with khat use [Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health, Australia]
