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At the press conference we also announced our plans for ‘2010 Year of Recovery’ a campaign to raise the profile of addiction and recovery and help to dispel the myths and stigma surrounding the issue [Inexcess TV, UK]
by Larry Davidson and colleagues: This group has been at the forefront of the recovery movement in the mental health field almost since its inception. The book is an ‘invaluable treasure chest of challenging, practical, and transformational ideas’ that will revolutionise the way that we help people overcome substance use problems [Amazon, USA]
Nothing has changed with our great national drug treatment hegemony since Mark Easton first exposed its chronic waste two years ago and since last year’s effort by Paul Hayes on the Today programme to justify the unjustifiable and to deny the undeniable – why only 3.6% of the 200,000 going through his treatment system were cured each year [Kathy Gyngell, Centre for Policy Studies, UK]
The standard is part of a broader trend towards the professionalization of the scientific publishing enterprise, and at the same time an attempt to deal with the growing influence of conflict of interest in addiction science [Editorial, Addiction, UK]
This Viewpoint argues that analysts and commentators have paid insufficient attention to equity in adult social care. It sets out a framework for identifying a fairer system (based on five key questions that assess policy proposals) and uses this to evaluate the Green Paper Shaping the future of care together [Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK]
I’ve just been a reading a commentary in the Guardian (within last Saturday’s Face to Faith) by Alastair McIntosh. Whilst he writes as a Quaker (and I’m not… probably an agnostic Catholic at best) and is commenting on economic growth and climate change, I find his words very telling [Alistair, Wired In]
I am a recovered opiate addict, I’ve met hundreds more. Many in our services don’t know that opiate addicts recover (and as this letter shows, that’s not only the clients but the ‘experts’ too). There is a wealth of literature on recovery, it does not ‘ignore evidence’ [Peapod, Wired In]
This situation then multiplies out into an email correspondence with eight managers, gets turned into into a health and safety debate, and gets referrenced into “dealing with dangerous situations” (God forbid) training. All for the chance of someone getting £5 back for their bus fare [Wulf, Wired In]
A study with the snappy title of “Maternal tobacco, cannabis and alcohol use during pregnancy and risk of adolescent psychotic symptoms in offspring” was published recently by researchers at Cardiff, Bristol, Warwick and Nottingham universities which threw another spanner in the claims that cannabis causes schizophrenia [UKCIA, UK]
Lawyers warn that Akmal Shaikh, 53, who has delusional psychosis, could be shot dead in jail after reports that his second appeal has failed [Observer, UK]
The new figures indicate that approximately 3.4 million children in the UK live with at least one binge drinking parent, 2.6 million with a hazardous drinker and around one million with a parent who uses illicit drugs [Medical News Today, UK]
The ‘traffic light’ solution proposes a tariff of conflicts of interest according to the potential risk of significant bias [Addiction, UK]
Unfortunately, some industries have been using scientific journals to disseminate biased science to defend its products for 100 years [Addiction, UK]
The proposed Common Standard for Conflict of Interest raises a number of difficult practical and philosophical issues concerning how science progresses [Addiction, UK]
It is a challenge as well as an opportunity to respond to the thoughtful responses to our Common Standard essay [Addiction, UK]
An opportunistic survey of 15-16 year olds (n=9,833) in North West England was undertaken to determine alcohol consumption patterns, drink types consumed, drinking locations, methods of access and harms encountered [BMC Public Health, UK]
Good trip? A personal investigation into the £10m-a-year market in legal drugs [Observer, UK]
Morrisons supermarket condemned for ‘absurd’ interpretation of rules on alcohol sales to young people [Observer, UK]
WHY the never-ending controversy about naltrexone implants? [Alex Wodak, The Australian]
The UN Human Rights Council, the highest political body in the UN dealing specifically with human rights, has closed its twelfth regular session having adopted two resolutions of considerable importance to harm reduction – HIV/AIDS and human rights, and access to essential medicines [IHRA]
