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Recent research from Canada and the United States has found that physical and programmatic access barriers are common in substance abuse treatment facilities and that such barriers directly lead to service denials to select groups of persons with disabilities (PWDs) [Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, USA]
This research further indicates that physical access barriers result in treatment denials to persons with physical disabilities and that programmatic barriers may result in similar declines to persons of select disability groups [Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, USA]
Sets out a radical proposal to guide the direction of modern societies and the lives of people who live in them. In contrast to a narrow focus on economic indicators, it calls for governments to directly measure people’s subjective well-being: their experiences, feelings and perceptions of how their lives are going [the national economic foundation, UK]
The results from the most comprehensive international survey of well-being to date have been used to construct the first ever set of national well-being indicators [nef, UK]
In April 2009 Transform published a groundbreaking report, titled ‘A Comparison of the Cost-effectiveness of the Prohibition and Regulation of Drugs’ We sent a copy to the Secretary of State in July 2009 with the letter below. Our tardiness was to put to shame however, by the time it took the Home Secretary to respond – we received his response today, 15th Feb 2010 – eight months later [Transform Drug Policy Foundation, UK]
Our champions of recovery will be working in the front line, taking referrals, doing syringe exchange, developing and facilitating Smart Recovery and working with the staff to embrace the recovery agenda. This has been a long time coming and is very exciting [Oliver, Wired In]
A Community Interest Company (CIC), the ‘UK Recovery Federation’, is to be established and the following outlines the proposed vision, principles, aims and objectives of this company. This has been produced for wide distribution and consultation with all those interested in the development and establishment of a British Recovery Movement [UK Recovery Federation]
Louis has started to go to AA and to receive counselling. We left here where an attempt at controlling her drinking hadn’t quite worked out as planned [Louis, WIred In]
How can losing your son at 28 years old be normal? How can the years of knowing your son was slowly killing himself, or the thief and beggar he became be normal? Yet I still loved him, I still saw his potential as he dealt with every increasing mental health problems [Susan C, Wired In]
I see a worker once a week who goes out her way to help and I talk honestly to her. I’m hoping to come down on my prescription as well, but right now I’m happy as long as I don’t use above my prescription. So feel I’m getting somewhere at last [Claire Y, Wired In]
Reforming addict Lee Dennis talks about decorating his blood-spattered house and demonstrates his love of Swansea City FC. An ex-dealer by the name of Old Famous Clinty talks about the pitfalls of methadone and how he’s determined to turn his life around. We leave Clinty to visit Cornelius’ dad Sean and we uncover a problem between he and Amy [VBS TV, UK]
Claire describes the process of disentangling the spend related to drugs and alcohol, the messages received, and the need for greater clarity and communication on spend {2’55”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Along with increased prescribing of long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain, rates of fatal opioid overdoses have risen [Pain Treatment Topics, USA]
El Paso, with a population of 740,000, and Juárez, with one of 1.4 million, have long been urban sisters, as tens of thousands of people move between the two every day, to work, or shop, or visit. But the cartel war has complicated things here: the violence in Juárez can seem so far away, and yet so close [New York Times, USA]
Over the coming months, we will be writing and publishing on this site a good deal of material focused on drugs and alcohol, substance use-related problems, addiction, treatment and recovery that will help family members and others gain a better understanding [David Clark, Wired In]
