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Ever
Decreasing Pools |
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Pooled Treatment Budget - It seems that we
peevish people out here in the drugs field just don't know when
we're onto a good deal ... Why then are people so unhappy? [Sara
McGrail blog, UK] |
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Leap
into recovery |
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Addiction treatment is turning into a form
of learned hopelessness, argues Dr David McCartney. He explains
how the LEAP team is giving clients in Edinburgh a springboard
to recovery [Drink and Drugs News, UK] |
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A
virtuous circle |
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Many people in recovery from a substance misuse
problem feel the need to put something back. David Gilliver finds
out from award-winning drugs worker Linda Sawyer how the Clean
Break scheme aims to help them do just that [Drink and Drugs
News, UK] |
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No
half measures? |
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Alcohol policy is moving into the 21st Century
at last, says Don Shenker. Here he examines health and community
safety issues that will make national and local alcohol policy
more accountable [Drink and Drugs News, UK] |
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Four-minute
warning |
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First impressions play an important role in
drug and alcohol services' success. You never get a second chance
to get it right, says John Jolly [Drink and Drugs News, UK] |
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Cream
of the crop |
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The Home Office's Tackling Drugs, Saving Lives
award recognise those who go the extra mile in helping service
users and their families. DDN talks to this year's winners [Drink
and Drugs News, UK] |
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Notes
from the Alliance |
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Daren Garratt has a personal reminder of why
fighting the user's corner is as vital as ever [Drink and Drugs
News, UK] |
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Letters |
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Responses to recent DDN features [Drink and
Drugs News, UK] |
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'No
Cannabis News' is Bad News For Government, Police |
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If it wasn't for the good old "cannabis
farm" stories we read every single day in the British press,
there would be nothing at all to read regarding the UK drugs
issue, as the enforcement agencies have failed dismally, to make
even a dent in the widescale distribution of class A drugs [CannaZine,
UK] |
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To
Give Or Not To Give Heroin To Addicts |
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Should heroin addicts who are hard to treat
be given heroin? A head-to-head (debate) looks at this topic
in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal [Medical
News Today, UK] |
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Decriminalisation
of addiction is now needed, not lip service |
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Eighty-seven people died from illegal drugs
in Dublin in 2007. What can be done, asks JProfessor John Crown
is a consultant oncologist [Irish Independent] |
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Alcohol,
Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence |
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Current Issue: January-March 2008 [Boston University,
USA] |
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Vote
of No Confidence For Prometa |
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Addiction drug loses major funding [Addiction
Inbox, USA] |
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The
History of Gay People in AA |
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The approach in those early days
seemed to be, "the only thing we care about is that you're
an alcoholic." The unfortunate corollary to this was social
pressure to not discuss one's sexual identity (Unless, of course,
you were heterosexual.) or stay in the closet [Addiction and
Recovery News, USA] |
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Statement
on Cough Medicine Abuse |
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Statement on the SAMHSA Findings on Cough Medicine
Abuse from the [Consumer Healthcare Products Association, USA] |
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Spike
TV Takes A First-Hand Look At Jobs With The Drug Enforcement
Administration |
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Six One-Hour Episodes of New Unscripted Original
Series “DEA” Set to Premiere on Spike TV This Spring
[DEA, USA] |
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At
war with the law of supply and demand |
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In the mountains high above the beaches of
Acapulco on Mexico's Pacific coast, heavily-armed soldiers are
chest-deep in a field of red, purple and white poppies - the
plants used to make heroin [Financial Times, UK] |
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Addiction
to drugs rife in jails |
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prison authorities have expanded drug detection
tests in Victorian jails after discovering an increasing number
of inmates abusing a heroin addiction substitute [The Age, Australia] |
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