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Calum Best meets some of the 1.3 million children who have a parent who abuses alcohol [Guardian, UK]
I am told that talks between the Home Office and its drugs advisers are still continuing behind the scenes with the aim of producing a “joint statement” [Mark Easton, BBC, UK]
Ed Mitchell chairs a share between six service users who are at various stages of recovery. Under discussion are methods of referral, different types of therapy and suggestions as to how the services might be improved in the future – what works and what doesn’t {60’48”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
Using data from the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Drug Use Monitoring in Australia program, this study explores the relationship between drug use, offending, mental health and experiences of child abuse among a sample of police detainees [Australian Institute of Criminology]
A recovery community organization (RCO) is an independent, non-profit organization led and governed by representatives of local communities of recovery [Faces and Voices of Recovery, USA]
It is here that you enter the strange half-life of the volunteer (v word – geddit – well it amused me anyway). Of the world, but often unable to participate fully in it. A vital part of the recovery movement, yet not able to get involved in big parts of it due to lack of access – to technology, to transport, to conference fees, to smart clothes – and on, and on [Michaela, WIred In]
Every day, sometimes several times a day, I am reminded that balance is integral to my well being. These reminders are painful and, if I’m lucky and things have not gone too far wrong, kinda humourous [Noni, Wired In]
To continue on the theme of relieving some of the painful and unpleasant memories that can often trip people up on the road to recovery, here is one of the EFT approaches that can help neutralise some of the negative emotions from past experiences [Masha Bennett, Wired In]
Transform is pleased to announce that our latest publication, ‘After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation’ will be launched at an event in the House of Commons on November the 12th, with simultaneous launches taking place in the US (at the Drug Policy Alliance conference in Albuquerque), Australia and Mexico [Transform, UK]
Europe’s most experienced drug and alcohol testing provider – has called for revised statutory guidance on child protection that provides greater national consistency in approaches to parental drug misuse cases [Concateno, UK]
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and the Home Office have just published the fruits of their meeting yesterday [Mark Easton, BBC, UK]
Release aside, the wider point is that there has been a long relationship between drugs and popular music: indeed, it goes far back beyond the 60s. And, of course, it still features big in the media today [Release, UK]
Aggressive advertising of medication provides cause for concern [Guardian, UK]
Research with the Important People instrument has demonstrated that social support for abstinence is related to alcohol treatment outcomes but less work has been done on the role of network supportin drug treatment outcomes [Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, USA}
The new ann-e app for the iPhone is a peer-to-peer application which brings people in recovery together over a safe and secure communications tool for mutual support [About.com]
September/October 2009, Volume 17, Number 5 [Substance Use and Mental Health Service Administration, USA]
Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Substance Abuse Treatment Practitioner in private practice in Lexington, VA [The Afflicted and Affected, USA]
Women detained by police were more likely than men to be suffering mental illness, using hard drugs and to have experienced sexual abuse as children, a study has found, prompting calls for offenders to be given psychological help to reduce crime [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
