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Exploring how nurses can assess patients with suspected substance use problems, and how to approach interventions and treatment options with patients [Nursing Times, UK]
Spring – Summer 2009 Newsletter [The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, USA]
June 2009 [Substance Misuse Management in General Practice, UK]
Exploring background information, the range of risks and effects and current trends in commonly used drugs, reasons for and extent of use, and legal concerns [Nursing Times, UK]
Of Substance covers the latest Australian news and research on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs [Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Australia]
[National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Australia]
Despite this government spending £10billion – £1.5billion a year – on its drugs policy, the numbers emerging from government treatment programmes are the same as if there had been no treatment at all, revealed Kathy Gyngell in a recent document from the apolitical Centre for Policy Studies [Addiction Today, UK]
Has pouring £300million a year into methadone helped – or quicksanded the UK into the worst drug problem in Europe? [Addiction Today, UK]
This year’s Tackling drugs week saw agencies across the country showcasing their work. DDN rounds up some of the activities that took place [Drink & Drugs News, UK]
The monthly e-bulletin for the Drug Interventions Programme [Home Office, UK]
With RAPt’s day programme recording good results, Mike Trace challenges other community services to contribute to an evidence base to judge effectiveness of this model of treatment [Drink & Drugs News, UK]
[Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse]
Although injecting drug use is the main route of transmission for the hepatitis C virus, there are few hep C support groups for drug users. David Gilliver hears from a service user who set up her own [Drink & Drugs News, UK]
Despite a 12 per cent increase in young people seeking treatment, the last remaining rehab unit for 12- to 17-year-olds is facing closure [Drink & Drugs News, UK]
Newsletter of the Alcohol and Drug Research Unit [Ireland]
May/June 2009 [Join Together, USA]
Adolescents need a somewhat different treatment model than adults. The adolescent model focuses on habilitation, emphasizing the teaching of new psycho-social recovery skills… [Counselor, USA]
Combine cocaine and alcohol and you have a toxic double whammy. David Gilliver hears how this year’s FRANK award winners have been raising awareness in Nottingham [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
A timetable of changing regulations could trip up unwary treatment services. David Finney offers a quick guide to keep you on track [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
With new welfare reforms being pushed out to job centres, DDN visited Wandsworth to talk to those directly involved in the culture change – including new employment minister Jim Knight [Drink & Drugs News, UK]
