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A new documentary on the latest steps to recovery of former BBC and ITN broadcaster, Ed Mitchell, is broadcast exclusively on Inexcess TV [Inexcess TV, UK]
Mental health care, including addiction, has traditionally run on a separate but very unequal track, compared to primary health care. Of the more than 450 million people around the world who suffer from a mental disorder, it is estimated that fewer than half receive medical help of any kind [Addiction Inbox, USA]
Recovery begins here – The year in numbers – Sustaining recovery – Changing behaviour – Joined-up thinking for better outcomes – Information value – The grass-roots response – NTA board and staff. 16-page PDF [NTA, UK]
Annual NDTMS report. 1 April 2008 – 31 March 2009 [NTA, UK]
New figures published today by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) show that in 2008/09, a record number of people entered drug treatment in England [DrugScope, UK]
As the NTA publishes its annual report and statistics for 2008/09, Paul Hayes talks to FEAD about the NTA’s foundations and some of its achievements to date [Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
I wonder if people are glossing over an inconvenient reality: many clients relapse within days of completing treatment, if not before [Telegraph, UK]
Old habits die hard. The latest figures on drug treatment in England show that despite despite a new drugs strategy stressing the importance of helping users get clean, the proportion of addicts getting into rehab is stuck at just 2% [BBC, UK]
The reason I’ve hesitated writing so far is because despite my best intentions to ‘get clean’ I’m still having relapses and have not managed so far to keep clean for a prolonged period [Zephora, Wired In]
I think that people often use drugs or drink alcohol because they do not find their place in society. They feel they have different views on the world, different values – and that they are different [Miky, Wired In]
An Interview with Lonnetta Albright By William L. White, MA [Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center, USA]
Later today the National Drug Treatment Agency will release its latest figures. Unfortunately, they will demonstrate once again the futility of chasing after a problem, long after it is established. Prevention is better than cure [eGov, UK]
In the week of the Labour Party Conference, Jack Straw publicly called for heroin on the NHS – based on publicity for a project called Riott which had not been independently evaluated nor peer reviewed [Addiction Today, UK]
Disturbing images of the effects of taking cocaine will be shown in a television advertising campaign beginning tonight [Times, UK]
Parents could help keep their teenagers away from drink-fuelled violence and sex by giving them a weekly alcohol allowance, a study has suggested [BBC, UK]
A dramatic fall in heroin use among young adults is revealed today, heralding a generational shift in patterns of drug dependence in England [NTA, UK]
Carrying out this research and then comparing it to the social and economic costs of illicit drug use would be a useful tool in disaggregating drug harms from drug policy harms – something Transform has long been calling form [Transform, UK]
Heroin has replaced cannabis as the second highest treated drug in the south east, Health Service Executive figures show [Irish Examiner]
Treatment services need continuing support and funding but have been, in the prison context, transformed – for the better – beyond recognition in recent years [Irish Times]
This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the delivery of “packages of care” for mental health disorders in low- and middle-income countries [PLoS Medicine]
