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Why should we embrace recovery? Because it can bring vital quality to life beyond addiction, say David Best and Mark Gilman {link to specific article not working, so please look at virtual magazine} [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Neil McKeganey makes a case for looking critically at stigma relating to drug use, while DDN reports on the first phase of UKDPC’s project on understanding stigma {link to specific article not working, so please look at virtual magazine} [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
In 2009, Swansea drug agencies reported a 180 percent rise in heroin use, and it’s visible on the city’s streets. Early one morning we meet a young, homeless couple named Amy and Cornelius in a city centre alley. As heroin-addicted alcoholics, they’re smack in the middle of two of South Wales’s most ever-present epidemics [Parts 1 to 6 available on this site] {6’50”} [VBS TV, UK]
At the start of Children of Alcoholics Week, victims talk about their shame, loneliness and guilt with nowhere to turn for help [Observer, UK]
The nation’s criminal justice system is in need of an overhaul. This is particularly true of its incarceration policies. Too many people are being put behind bars who do not need to be there, at great cost to the states, and not enough attention is being paid to helping released prisoners re-enter society [New York Times Editorial, USA]
I did a blog last week around 12 ‘Principles of Recovery’. As those who will have seen it will know, I took principles that were developed in the US (check it our for details of source) and tinkered about with them a little. I think some of the ‘tinkering’ was fairly significant and I thought it was worthwhile bunging them out again and explaining my thinking [Alastair, WIred In]
We left Louis when she had just been kicked out of the YMCA and moved into a homeless hostel in the town. Her drinking continues but she tries a new drug – speed [Louis, Wired In]
I lost it this end. I needed to! I had forgotten so much how I myself had affected my loved ones with my own addiction. I truthfully was a nasty individual to my loved ones! I went the whole way – lied, deceived, stole and this impacted on all those around me. I had no shame – no guilt and just couldn’t give a damn as long as I got my fix [Martin Bailey, Wired In]
I know that I have just written a blog about ‘blame’ but I wanted to say thank you to all of those who have taken the time to write a comment about my blogs and many of those comments have helped me through the day – even with tears streaming down my face [Susan C, Wired In]
I have a problem. I cannot stop myself from over ranting about my perceived view of the problems I define in what I choose to describe as the treatment system. Yet time and time again my frustrations spill out of me in some sort of self righteous twaddle, when I am just as equally as guilty part of the very system I knock [Wulf, Wired In]
Some of you will know that I am a great fan of William W White (addiction field) and Larry Davidson (mental health field)… I have recently realised that I missed a two-part article they co-authored on recovery and the integration of the addiction and mental health fields [David Clark, Wired In]
Claire says that the sense of variety came through, but that there is not equity in terms of access to services across Scotland [1’38”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
The Review followed the publication of the global Commission on Social Determinants of Health, also chaired by Sir Michael Marmot and published by the WHO. The CSDH advocated that national governments develop and implement strategies and policies suited to their particular national context aimed at improving health equity [University College of London, UK]
This paper outlines the process, key findings and recommendations from the Advisory Group on Homelessness and Substance Misuse [Scottish Drugs Forum, UK]
From Juárez to London, the real victims of the ‘war on drugs’ are not the criminal gangs but ordinary young people [Observer, UK]
Inside their modest offices I met Danny Kushlick who founded Transform in 1997, and is now their head of policy and communications. Since its inception [Cherwell, Oxford University, UK]
She was sentenced to 27 years in prison for a first-time, non-violent crack cocaine offense. She’s spent over 16 years behind bars and has more than 10 left to go. 1 person has the power to bring her home: The President of the United States [dearmrpresidentyesyoucan.org, USA]
The deadline for submitting your nominations for the 2010 Red Ribbon Award is February 28, 2010. The award honours and celebrates outstanding community leadership and action that has helped curtail the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS [International Drug Policy Consortium]
