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The challenge of tackling blood-borne viruses in injecting drug users has been an important part of prison policy and strategy consideration for the past two decades because of the high prevalence of chronic hepatitis B and C and drug dependence in prisons [Addiction Editorial, UK]
This Guide is intended to help Level I and II Trauma Centers plan, implement, and continually improve the new Committee on Trauma (COT) alcohol-screening and brief intervention requirements [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, USA]
Anne M. Fletcher, MS, RD is the recipient of the Research Society on Alcoholism Journalism Award for Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems—Advice From Those Who Have Succeeded [The Afflicted & Affected, USA}
‘Your attitude and your repeated statements lead one to despair of politicians. Like journalists they seem only interested in the subject for one moment. They may pay lip service but then turn to other matters. I understand that politics and academic medicine are worlds apart but feel that your interest in prescribed benzodiazepine users is facile and so far futile. As Health Minister the public expects more of you’ [Professor C Heather Ashton, UK]
Compiled by Peter Miller, Jean O’Reilly and Molly Jarvis [Addiction, UK]
Each day I tried to crawl out of depression I fell back in the same way. Why bother? It would only return anyway, and, one definition of insanity is the repetition of the same action expecting a different result – so wasn’t I sinking further into insanity each time? The debates with the ‘internal bully’ were frankly “nae a fair fight” [Devil’s Advocate, Wired In]
I work in a big open plan office for a probation service, frequently feeling like I have sold my soul to Home Office number crunching madness and wondering what is the point and where did my values go. Increasingly dragged into endless rounds of meetings and struggling to do the things that matter with the folk that matter [Wulf, Wired In]
Thanks everyone who has responded on the blog and to me personally. So far about 30 of the great and good have confirmed their attendance, so who’s coming? Everyone from family members, charity directors, strategic leads, researchers, service providers, service users, old and new, (many of these doubling as people who have recovered also) from across the whole UK [Annemarie W, Wired In]
ick references George Ainslie’s work on ‘pico-economics’ and ‘breakdown of will’. He explains the idea of hyperbolic discounting and how this related to addiction. He also explores the concepts of resolutions and preferences and how these relate to our understanding of addiction [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Patricia Omoqui talks to Byron Katie about her website (www.thework.com) which houses a ‘banquet’ of different types of help resources including video clips, an electronic book and an anonymous hotline {6’04”) [Inexcess TV, UK]
Andrew Lansley, the Shadow Health Secretary, has launched the Conservative Party’s new green paper on public health – A Healthier Nation [Conservatives, UK]
The powerful legal high mephedrone is becoming much more widely used on the British club scene, a survey suggests [BBC, UK]
This briefing presents information on the substance Mephedrone (also known as: 4‐MMC, ‘Meow’, ‘M‐Cat’) and other related drugs. This substance has received recent media attention concerning its legality and (largely unconfirmed) speculations around its contribution to the deaths of several young people [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
December 2009 [Substance Misuse Management in General Practice, UK]
Working with Drug & Alcohol Users in Primary Care – Integrating Practice and Policy: Everyone’s Business, Glasgow, UK [Substance Misuse Management in Clinical Practice, UK]
A retired professor who said cannabis was one of the “safer” recreational drugs has taken over as chairman of the government’s drugs advisory panel [BBC, UK]
The image of cocaine as a “safe party drug” is a myth that must be dispelled, say UK experts, as a study shows the drug is linked to 3% of sudden deaths [BBC, UK]
Binge drinking, obesity, drug use and teenage pregnancy all come under spotlight in Tories’ public health agenda [Guardian, UK]
Two researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, have been awarded the White House Office of National Science and Technology Council’s Presidential Award for Early Career Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) [National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA]
What are readers of Addiction Inbox interested in? Although scarcely scientific, a look at the most-viewed posts here over the past couple of years is indicative of general interest… [Addiction Inbox, USA]
