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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]
On a night out in Swansea we find topless fire-breathing dance troupes, old sailors, and two little kids in one of the city’s most drug-ravaged council estates. The morning after we visit a demonstration by the Welsh Defense League which turns into something of a race riot. Afterwards we catch up with Cornelius and Amy again. Sean sheds a bit of light on the relationship he has with his son’s girlfriend {10’09”} [VBS, UK]
Claire describes the process of disentangling the spend related to drugs and alcohol, the messages received, and the need for greater clarity and communication on spend {2’55”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Reforming addict Lee Dennis talks about decorating his blood-spattered house and demonstrates his love of Swansea City FC. An ex-dealer by the name of Old Famous Clinty talks about the pitfalls of methadone and how he’s determined to turn his life around. We leave Clinty to visit Cornelius’ dad Sean and we uncover a problem between he and Amy [VBS TV, UK]
Ex-miner Derek James explains how the decline of industry in Swansea helped create the current drug culture and Jon Frith takes us on a guided tour of the SANDS drug agency. Later we meet Andrew who takes us on a quick crack-buying errand right before an appointment with his drugs counsellor [VBS TV, UK]
Keith Humphreys, Stanford University School of Medicine, speaks about self-help/mutual help sustaining recovery {28’24”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Claire says that the sense of variety came through, but that there is not equity in terms of access to services across Scotland [1’38”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
In 2009, Swansea drug agencies reported a 180 percent rise in heroin use, and it’s visible on the city’s streets. Early one morning we meet a young, homeless couple named Amy and Cornelius in a city centre alley. As heroin-addicted alcoholics, they’re smack in the middle of two of South Wales’s most ever-present epidemics [Parts 1 to 6 available on this site] {6’50”} [VBS TV, UK]
If you weren’t there (or even if you were there) this is the film that really gives you a sense of what happened at the Road to Recovery event. Behind the scenes and with comment and feedback from the delegates [Inexcess TV, UK]
Claire says the report recommends work to simplify arrangements and funding design. Claire talks about the uncertainty and constraints the services are facing {1’15”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Claire talks about Audit Scotland’s response to complexity when tracking the way public money is spent across drug and alcohol services. She talks about Audit Scotland’s experience of National reviews, and how groups and individuals helped in producing the study [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Claire describes the ‘broad reach’ necessary for producing the study and describes the range of stakeholders and providers involved in the area of drug and alcohol misuse {3’03”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Ed recently returned to the streets in the Centrepoint Sleep Out, at Old Spitalfields Market in London. The event was designed to raise awareness of young people sleeping rough before Christmas, and to raise funds for the Centrepoint charity [Inexcess TV, UK]
[Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
The first highlights from 2010 Road to Recovery, Merseyside Event, covering the morning session and featuring passionate and inspirational talks from George Williams, Mark Gilman, Ronnie Purslow, David McCollom, Tony Mellor and Simon Jenkins {12’20”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
William talks about the need to maintain boundaries between treatment and mutual aid. He says there is a lot of ‘role definition’ to get worked out with those groups that stand between treatment and mutual aid [Film Exhange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
Coverage of the Road to Recovery Merseyside event starts next week on Tuesday 2nd February. The week begins with highlights of the first morning session {0’58”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
Benzodiazepines and other psychotropic drugs. What they do and problems of withdrawal. Discussion with: Prof. Heather Ashton, Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, Prof. David Healy and Adam Jhugroo {23’51”) [Vimeo]
William White talks about the need to be cautious about our judgements of methadone treatment {2’19”) [Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
After 15 years of wasting money on a prohibitionist network, city leaders realized it is time to resign The municipal government of Budapest admitted that it has been paying thousands of Euros every year since 1998 as a membership fee for a Stockholm-based prohibitionist organization, the European Cities Against Drugs [Hungarian Civil Liberties Union]
