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Read a full round up from the DDN/Alliance National service user involvement conference [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Video highlights from the presentations as well as opions from the video booth [Drink and DRug News, UK]
UN-commissioned guidance from international experts on how to mount prevention programmes involving parents and children in a joint effort to improve family dynamics and child development [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
More people are using powder cocaine, more people are seeking help for dependency, and more are being successfully treated, according to the results of the largest ever study into the effectiveness of treatment for powder cocaine dependency in England [NTA, UK]
The UK’s last specialist residential rehabilitation and detox clinic specifically for teenagers addicted to alcohol or drugs is closing today [BBC, UK]
In response to Carl’s concerns regarding the future of SMART Recovery in the UK, Tom Hovarth, President of SMART Recovery, updates us on where things stand. “We need to increase the availability of SMART Recovery meetings for everyone, and to use all reasonable means to do so” [Tom Horvath, Wired In]
On June 10th we will be holding the second all Wales service user conference in Wrexham. This years event is once again funded by the Welsh assembly and the service user conference planning group is formed by one representative from each of the seven health trusts in Wales [John Mills, Wired In]
I was looking at a photo of Michael today and just can’t believe we won’t talk anymore. It is difficult to come to terms with. It’s as if he has been forgotten, as if he never was and life goes on. I do want my life to go on but sometimes I sit here and think – wow did that really happen, did Michael really exist? [Susan C, Wired In]
I made a start on a close reading of the Welsh Assembly consultation paper on Integrated Care Pathways. To say that it’s dry reading would be an enormous understatement, and it’s only because I have some experience of reading and digesting official documents, that someone with my background has managed to hack my way through it so far [Gareth Joseph, Wired In]
But something just snapped. I joined a service user group and it has totally changed my life. I now have something to do to engage my brain. I have found something that makes me just as high as heroin but naturally. I am not religious but prayed for the day for me to see the sky, not just the clouds [Haylz, Wired In]
So in the spirit of all things new and leaping-lamb-like I have renamed this blog. Now it may not seem like much to you but change is afoot and this is my humble reflection of the amazing things that are still to come. And I really think they will, you know [MIchaela, Wired In]
With a room full of drug workers, therapists and service users Byron Katie delivers “the Work” and challenges some of the preconceptions of how people work and relate to each other [Inexcess TV, UK]
An Australian study found that prolonged use of cannabis or marijuana by young adults was linked to a higher risk of developing psychosis, with the highest risk affecting those who started using the substance in their teens, and continued using it for 6 years or more into adulthood: the risk of developing psychosis among these users was more than double that of never users [Medical News Today, UK]
Alcoholic liver disease, also called alcoholic hepatitis, refers to a range of conditions and related symptoms that develop when the liver becomes damaged due to excessive intake of alcohol [Medical News Today, UK]
The truly alarming statistic that at least 900 children in Scotland are suffering severe damage caused to the brain and organs before birth by foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and that thousands of others have learning and behavioural difficulties as a result of their mothers’ drinking during pregnancy must concern us all [Herald Scotland, UK]
Drugnet Europe, the EMCDDA’s quarterly newsletter, provides regular information on the Agency’s activities to a broad readership [European Monitoring Centre of Drugs and Drug Addiction]
Contrary to what is commonly assumed, psychoactive drugs do not produce fixed and predictable psychological effects that are dependent purely on their chemical properties [Wired In]
