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It’s somewhat ironic that only since we had a national adolescent treatment policy did Middlegate, the country’s only teen residential rehab, begin to struggle. Last week it gave up the ghost and closed. Up until 2004 it was full and had waiting lists [Kathy Gyngell, Centre for Policy Studies, UK]
And so I find myself as much affected by the alcohol as Greg. Each day I too am on that hamster wheel. I have to ensure there are adequate supplies to fuel his addiction. I am ashamed of what I do. It does not sit easy with me. I am enabling him to drink. But the fact of the matter is that he cannot get it himself and he cannot forego it without dire consequences [Alcoholic Daze, UK]
West Australian premier Colin Barnett has defended his health minister’s decision to send a young drug abuser to New Zealand for her second liver transplant [Perth Now, Australia]
This DrugScope document was published last week following a similar look at adult treatment last year… The word recovery is mentioned in this paper only three times. All in the same paragraph on page 30. That’s out of 65 pages. From a recovery perspective, it’s worse than the Cross Government Drugs Research Strategy and that was dire [Peapod, Wired In]
I would like to tell Perry’s story. Of his descent into heroin addiction and his untimely death. Perry was 18 when he came to his mother and myself to tell us he had a problem. Right here we go again. It wasn’t the first time he came to us with a problem. But what a problem! [Keith F, Wired In]
Bitterness, resentment, accusation. None of these things happened for me – it was a warm, healing meeting. Yes it was difficult and painful, I think both of us were anxious. L gave me a hug when she saw me and we sat and chatted for nearly two hours. Her honesty and humility were a credit to her depth of personality [Susan C, Wired In]
We are really pleased (and I mean really, really and thrice really) to announce that our own Professor Clark, Mark Gilman and Phil Valentine will be speaking at the above conference. For those of you who may not know about Phil, he is Executive Director for the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) and has been an integral component in this recovery community organisation since January 1999 [Michaela, Wired In]
Don’t take someone else’s addiction personally, being involved with an addict hurts. It’s painful to be involved with an addict of drugs or sex or alcohol or gambling or anything else the mind can get hooked on. It’s painful, and it can make you feel guilty for being involved [Verve, Wired In]
Mr Heroin will always be part of my life if I allow it. The man without a face, or an image of a thousand faces. He has many faces, male and female, he owns every member of his victim’s family and loved ones. He is very clever, he portrays himself in many fields of life, he is like a mas murderer, greater than the worst evil in the universe [Ann Marie, Wired In]
[Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
So a show on nicotine, at some point it had to be done, but was it really fair of me to not warn my co-host that we where going to do it. Especially as she’d only just stopped smoking [Injecting Advice, UK]
Way back in the early 90’s there were several attempts to prove that cannabis couldn’t actually be illegal, that the law was not only “immoral in principal and unworkable in practice” as the famous 1967 petition in the Times put it but was actually in and of itself illegal [UKCIA, UK]
Iain Duncan Smith MP has given a speech in which he calls for the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse to be replaced. He also advocates for rehab places to be quadrupled – and filled with referred patients [Addiction Today, UK]
… only 11% receive any treatment [CASA, Columbia University, USA]
Back when I first became interested in the science of addiction, I was fascinated by an article in Parabola magazine by Dr. Richard Sandor, a Los Angeles psychiatrist with many years of experience treating alcoholics and other drug addicts [Dirk Hanson, Wired In]
Though the Cambodian government says its 11 state drug treatment centers are all voluntary, a report released by New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) last month says only 1-2% of drug users enter Cambodia’s drug rehabilitation facilities by choice [Time, USA}
Does this sound like anyone you know? Darryl is 35, has a steady job, a stable home and good marriage, enjoys a few beers in front of the TV most nights – doesn’t have what most people would call a drink problem [The Age, Australia]
Considers the views of the philosopher Douglas Husak on the justice of drug laws in America [Wired In]
