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I lost my son, Marcus, seven and half years ago after a long battle with addiction. He tried desperately hard to overcome this, by going into rehab in Switzerland and then using opiate blockers. He was successful for a whole year when he met an old ‘friend’ [The Luke & Marcus Trust, Wired In]
I went to the job centre yesterday and signed off, I had been claiming Incapacity Benefit for more than 5 years. It was a wonderful feeling and another goal I have achieved that I thought would take me at least another 12 months [Carl C, WIred In]
I think it may be worth rehearsing these arguments here on Wired In at this time. At risk of caricaturing and stereotyping positions (and in order to kick off debate) I think it’s fair to say that for a lot of people harm reduction is seen as liberal, progressive and left wing (ish). Whereas abstinence and recovery are often seen as conservative and right wing (ish) [Mark Gilman, Wired In]
The NTA and the Guardian have launched a new resource about treatment and recovery. Hallelujah! It’s good to see the NTA moving on this front and it is welcome. But as I read through the site though something began to niggle [Peapod, Wired In]
Well I have to say that this has been a really good week in the Wired In community with some amazing entries and really insightful comments. A good reason to pat ourselves on our virtual backs I feel. I know that size doesn’t matter (!) but it feels good to see lots of blogs and lots of new people [Michaela, Wired In]
A report on the design and implementation of the Celtic Against Drugs and Rangers Positive Choices schemes and their suitability and value for money as vehicles for drugs education and prevention [Scottish Government, UK]
It is a health scare which has seen seven people die in Scotland so far with another 14 hospitalised, yet there is no panic in the streets, few headlines and little fearful talk in homes or in offices. The reason for the silence? The victims are all drug addicts, a faceless heroin-injecting underclass, who few care about [Herald Scotland, UK]
A hedge fund manager is providing financial backing to a new independent drugs committee set up by the former chief drugs adviser dismissed by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary [Times, UK]
Norman G. Hoffmann, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and president of Evince Clinical Assessments, is an internationally recognized expert in the area of assessment and outcome evaluation [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
The United States attorney in Manhattan is merging the two units in his office that prosecute terrorism and international narcotics cases, saying that he wants to focus more on extremist Islamic groups whose members he believes are increasingly turning to the drug trade to finance their activities [New York Times, UK]
Just before Human Rights Watch released our report on human rights violations in Chinese drug detention centers on January 7, the Chinese Ministries of Health and Public Security ordered detention centers and jails to improve medical care [Huffington Post, USA]
Yet despite these efforts, 1,132 random drug tests of inmates in 2008-09 were positive — the same positive rate of 1.6 percent as 10 years earlier [LA Times, USA]
An estimated 4.3 million adults aged 50 or older, or 4.7 percent of adults in that age range, had used an illicit drug in the past year, based on data from 2006 to 2008 [SAMHSA, USA]
The recent statistics monitoring prison inmates show a steady rise in the number of hepatitis C cases, making it all too clear that drug use, as in all jails, is a fact of life. This again brings to the foreground the argument for a needle exchange program [Canberra Times Editorial, Australia]
