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Bringing Thomas McLellan to President Obama’s drug strategy team could reposition addiction treatment at the heart of mainstream healthcare. DDN met a man on a mission [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
“SMART Recovery is a US abstinence-based programme that’s gaining a foothold in the UK thanks to a pilot project with Alcohol Concern. David Gilliver spoke to its founding president, Dr Joe Gerstein [DDN, UK]
The interest of clients are not being served by a faceless, target-driven system [DDN, UK]
Pat Taylor joined Faces & Voices of Recovery as Executive Director in 2003, building on many years of grassroots advocacy leadership [Afflicted & Affected, USA]
In the light of your recent decision that you had no confidence in Professor Nutt’s advice I would like to ask you to re-present the benzodiazepine submission to the ACMD for proper consideration on the grounds that there can be little confidence in any of Professor Nutt’s previous advice and that the benzodiazepine decision in particular is tainted by the undeclared conflict of interest described above [benzo.org.uk, UK]
This is my first blog ever so please be patient and bear with me, lol. Don’t know how to start so I suppose it’s best from the beginning eh? I was 21 when first tried heroin. Old enough to know better really.I had everything. Had a 7 month old daughter who I worshipped, a decent job, great family and friends, my own place. Everything was going good for me [Shell, Wired In]
All I wanted was to stop using drugs and then I thought my life would be fixed. Stopping using has allowed the space in time to be created for me to do the repairs necessary for me to be happy, joyous and free. The longer I’m clean, the more I grow. Whilst I grow I keep on learning about me and life comes back to life [Paveitwithgold, WIred In]
After nearly 14 months of being clean and sober, my attention and focus these past few months has been more orientated towards career goals and in particular training that will allow me to progress with those goals. So I’m really excited about traveling to Nottingham this Friday to start a Diploma in Therapeutic Drumming with The Therapeutic Drumming Foundation [Phil Hughes, Wired In]
Today I didn’t want to get up, but tonight I feel like I am ready for a little recovery. You know one little step leads to another. So I went and laid some flowers where Michael died with a little card from me to him and then lit a candle in the chapel where he had his funeral. It was peaceful and sad [Susan C, Wired In]
Now what is it about the number one? Why is it so important in the grand scheme of things? We seem to crave some sort of oneness. When people get married they become one – which is a bit sci-fi if you think about it. There is one true god, one true faith, only one Alan Shearer. One love according to Bono and a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (not if you’re a bird it isn’t [Michaela, Wired In]
Each recording features three stories, together with information about recovery [Scottish Recovery Network, UK]
Raised BMI and alcohol consumption are both related to liver disease, with evidence of a supra-additive interaction between the two [British Medical Journal, UK]
We all know and understand that the drug laws are supposedly based on the harm drugs can cause, hence the ABC classification system. What is also becoming common knowledge is that the whole thing is in a mess [UKCIA, UK]
More 12 year olds have used potentially lethal inhalants than have used marijuana, cocaine and hallucinogens combined, according to data released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in conjunction with the 18th annual National Inhalants & Poisons Awareness Week [Medical News Today, UK]
Street signs warning Romanian drivers to be careful of drunken pedestrians lying on roads were erected by road safety chiefs worried about the “despairing” levels of accidents [Telegraph, UK]
The alcohol-crash expert said Queensland mirrored Victoria, where two-thirds of booze-related crashes involved drivers with blood alcohol readings of 0.15 or above, many of whom were repeat offenders [news.com.au, Australia]
A 28 year old psychologist and AIDS activist has been sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in Uzbekistan… Authorities had been angered by the publishing of a pamphlet written by Popov called “The Healthy Way of Life: a Manual for Teachers of the 21st Century” [International Drug Policy Consortium]
Here is a drug that is pilloried on the one hand, and yet is used [diamorphine] in the UK without controversy to treat severe and intractable pain, arising from illnesses such as cancer [Wired In]
