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This TIP endorses a biopsychosociocultural framework based on clinical practice and research centered on women. By placing emphasis on the importance of context, many topics examine the role of factors that influence women’s substance use from initiation of use to engagement of continuing care treatment services, i.e., relationships, gender socialization, and culture [SAMHSA, USA]
Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment is for people who have co-occurring disorders, mental illness and a substance abuse addiction. This treatment approach helps people recover by offering both mental health and substance abuse services at the same time and in one setting [SAMHSA, USA]
The objectives of this discussion paper are to advise the public about the introduction of alcohol ignition interlocks and to seek comment from the Queensland community on potential new programs or improvements to existing policies and programs that could be introduced to address this road safety problem [Queensland Government, Australia]
Excess body weight increases the incidence of liver cirrhosis. In middle aged women in the UK, an estimated 17% of incident or fatal liver cirrhosis is attributable to excess body weight. This compares with an estimated 42% attributable to alcohol [British Medical Journal, UK]
Chris Ford’s regular insight from a busy G.P.‘s surgery [DDN, UK}
I’ll never forget my first line. Andy had tried to talk me out of it but I wanted to know what the fuss was about. And anyway, it was only once. He kneeled before me and put the tooter in my mouth. All I was to do was inhale and he’d run it for me [Shell, Wired In]
The biggest risk in recovery is showing people who we really are. That’s the biggest risk of all – showing people that we’re human. That we don’t always know all the answers. That we sometimes don’t even know what the questions are. That we make mistakes and that sometimes we fall flat on our faces [Wynford Ellis Owen, Wired In]
It was so interesting and I have done a little research about soul loss and I wondered in fact if this is me – maybe when Michael died I did lose part of my soul. Maybe my soul is temporarily removed whilst I am in grief. So much seems to fit, such as feeling disconnected from life and that I can’t feel anything, or connect [Susan C, Wired In]
In a follow-up to their article looking at whether 12-step meetings are appropriate for women who have experienced abuse, Grace and Sarah Galvani explore the implications for fellowship members and sponsors who support women living with these issues and look at some broader implications for alcohol and drug professionals [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Some more details about the Information Commissioner’s ruling regarding the review of the classification system of the Misuse of Drugs Act has been provided by the Drug Equality Alliance [UKCIA, UK]
Overall, these findings indicate that alcohol impacts many disease outcomes causally, both chronic and acute, and injuries. In addition, a pattern of heavy episodic drinking increases risk for some disease and all injury outcomes [Addiction Abstract, UK]
Gordon Brown’s refusal to clamp down on cheap alcohol is the biggest public health failing of the last decade, England’s chief medical officer has said [Telegraph, UK]
Between 1997 and 2007, the proportion of substance abuse treatment admissions reporting co-abuse of alcohol and drugs declined from 45.3 to 39.4 percent [SAMHSA, USA]
Reducing Australia’s blood alcohol limit for drivers to 0.02 is probably inevitable, a public health expert says as other prominent academics also voice their support for the move [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
Some people admit to not thinking about the consequences of their actions, and in fact do not think much about their drug use at all. Many others, when they first start taking heroin, are confident that they will not become addicted. A common belief is that, “addiction is not something that could happen to me; it happens to other people” [Wired In]
