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By Phillip A. Valentine, William L. White and Pat Taylor [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
Within your mental health and/or addictions treatment, a “recovery plan”, sometimes called a treatment plan or service plan, is the document that you create with your team to help plan how you want to move forward towards your goals.
Chaired by journalist and author Simon Jenkins, this seminar examined how new recovery-based models of drug and alcohol treatment could give greater power and resources to individuals with more involvement of family and community [Institute for Public Policy Research, UK]
We conclude that there is strong evidence that tax- and age-based restrictions on alcohol availability reduce crime, and we discuss implications for policy and practice [Christopher Carpenter & Carlos Dobkin, USA]
The Transtheoretical Model has its origins in early research of James Prochaska who… acknowledged that no single therapeutic approach had been shown to be more ‘correct’ than others. He recognised the necessity to ‘unwrap’ the various approaches to reveal the key elements that are required to help people overcome their problems [Wired In]
And what am I going to do about it? Well, lots of things. But most of all I will be walking on 25th September in Glasgow. We have a new slogan for the UK Recovery Walk, ‘We make the path by walking it’ [Michaela, Wired In]
All of you I miss. The warmth of your embrace, the way you made me laugh, how you made me feel. Powerful, loved, excited, alive, superior. How you made me unable to feel, devoid of emotion, carefree. So complete, so wanted, so much a part of something special, so subversive, so unique [Tony, Wired In]
My sister is really not doing great. I have listened to her and passed on stuff I have learned, but I cannot get her sober and healthy. She has to choose to do that. It hurts seeing her like this, but I have accepted she has to decide. It has eased the pain a lot of seeing her like this [Louis, Wired In]
Our expert panel discusses the drug mephedrone, its effects and the likelihood of its prohibition, in a special edition of our daily news audio show with Jon Dennis [Guardian, UK]
What’s ‘meow meow’ actually like? Dr Max Pemberton found out for himself [Telegraph, UK]
Attempting to scare teenagers about the dangers of drugs is pointless: their brains are wired up to take risks [Times, UK]
Some 415 newly identified drugs, untested by medical science, are being sold to young people [Independent, UK]
The federal government has plucked about $340 million out of struggling mental health programs in the past two years after repeatedly attacking Tony Abbott for cutting $1 billion from the health budget when he was the presiding minister [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
