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Audio and powerpoint presentations of conference held in London, March 19-20th 2009 [Exchange Supplies, UK]
After three days of talking, networking and sharing UKESAD has reached it’s final day. We were able to spend some time in the company of Deirdre Boyd – editor of Addiction Today, organiser of the symposium and all round champion of recovery [Inexcess TV, UK]
HIV and hepatitis C survival in used syringes: A short documentary describing the findings of viral survival studies in syringes, and explanation of what they mean for our understanding of why hepatitis C prevalence is so high amongst injecting drug users [Exchange Supplies, UK]
£10bn has been spent – and wasted – and it is now time to change tack, says Kathy Gyngell [Daily Telegraph, UK]
Ten recommendations from leading US addiction scientists that help “in designing programs, systems, and social policy to reduce drug and associated suffering, societal harms and costs” [Wired In]
One of the joys of having a content management system to play around with is that I get to see all sorts of statistics related to the community. I’ve been looking at the most visited blogs. Thought I’d show you the most visited month by month. And the ‘winners’ are… [David Clark, WIred In]
But I have moved on… I never really saw it before because I was always looking back for what I might miss… instead of looking forward to what I have still yet to gain… I woke this morning and life seems not so bad… all I need to keep reminding myself is to keep looking forward [Louis Blog, Wired In]
Things are getting interesting in the US. Just as the UK descends into drug war madness and does its best to paper over the cracks that have started to appear in the drugs policy (more about that later) the whiff of change is forcing its way onto the agenda on the other side of the pond [UKCIA, UK]
A series of six info sheets on legal and ethical issues related to drug use and HIV/AIDS in Thailand by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network [International Drug Policy Consortium]
Arthur C Bohart and Karen Tallman offer a wonderfully integrative and constructive view of the client as the primary agent of change in psychotherapy. The therapist is viewed as a coach, collaborator and teacher who frees up the client’s innate tendency to heal. Essential reading for workers in the field [Amazon, UK]
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) filmed the speech of the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, at the high level UN meeting in Vienna on March 11, 2009, in which he announced that Bolivia would start the process to remove the coca leaf from the 1961 Single Convention as well as the suspension of the paragraphs of that convention that prohibit the traditional chewing of coca leaf [Transnational Institute, The Netherlands]
Dr. Harris B. Stratyner, Ph.D., CASAC is the Regional Vice President for Caron’s New York Recovery Center. A renowned addiction and mental health treatment specialist with more than 27 years of experience, he oversees the clinical staff and develops and implements workshops/ programs for patients in recovery [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
California’s medical marijuana law survived its most serious legal challenge today as the U.S. Supreme Court denied appeals by two counties that argued they were being forced to condone violations of federal drug laws [San Francisco Chronicle, USA]
A medical-marijuana advocate who grew 32,000 plants on his land in Lake County was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by a federal judge who criticized the law she was applying [San Francisco Chronicle, USA]
Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, has been advocating for legalization of marijuana for 20 years and says he’s seen more progress in the last four months than in the previous two decades [New York Times, USA]
The European Union has agreed to expand its effort in combating drug trafficking and violence in Central and South America [The Huffington Post, USA]
For the first time, preliminary research using brain-imaging technology has shown that low-key and attention-grabbing anti-smoking public service announcements stimulate different patterns of activity in smokers’ brains and that smokers are more likely to remember seeing the low-key PSAs [NIDA, USA]
We encourage government to explicitly disassociate itself from Drinkwise and similar bodies, and as a matter of policy to fund organisations with a public health ethos and no conflict of interest. In addition, universities, community organisations and researchers should signal their unwillingness to validate Drinkwise and other SAPROs [Drug & Alcohol Review article, Australia]
We, along with the more than 50 other scientists and health experts listed at http://alcopopstatement.orgfree.com who endorse and are signatories to this letter,13 will not seek or accept funding from DrinkWise. We call on other researchers and community agencies to consider their positions [Medical Journal of Australia]
