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The Recovery Bill of Rights

The Recovery Bill of Rights is a statement of the principle that all Americans have a right to recover from addiction to alcohol and other drugs [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]

Tags: resourceusa   Date: 26 Mar 10

Working with recovery capital

As promised, I’ve developed a simple method of working with recovery capital for practitioners and their clients [theartoflifeitself, UK]

Tags: blogresourceuk   Date: 25 Mar 10

Getting in the Driver’s Seat of Your Treatment: Preparing for Your Plan

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.

Tags: reportresourceusa   Date: 23 Mar 10

Rehab Online

Rehab Online is a directory of residential rehabilitation services for adult drug and/or alcohol misusers in England and Wales. It will give you information about these services, whether you are a member of the public, a professional or a service user [NTA, UK]

Tags: resourceukwebsite   Date: 22 Mar 10

The Children’s Society launches new resource to support young runaways

The Young Runaways Education Resource, developed by The Children’s Society in collaboration with the DCSF, will provide a tool for schools to help intervene when children show signs of being ‘at risk’ [The Children’s Society, UK]

Tags: resourceuk   Date: 03 Mar 10

Recovery-Oriented System of Care: A Recovery Community Perspective

The overarching goal of the subcommittee is to improve the system of care offered in Pennsylvania by expanding to a chronic care model of care [Pennsylvania Drug and Alcohol Coalition, USA]

Tags: reportresourceusa   Date: 22 Feb 10

Overdose workshop resources

Since releasing the Overdose Workshop in mid January its been viewed over 1000 times. So I’ve decided to provide some more supporting resources for it [Injecting Advice, UK]

Tags: articleresourceuk   Date: 22 Feb 10

Adfam

Adfam is the leading national organisation working with and for families affected by drugs and alcohol [Adfam, UK]

Tags: resourceukwebsite   Date: 19 Feb 10

Measure your own well-being

This survey is made up of the questions from the European Social Survey which were used to create the National Accounts of Well-being indicators. By answering the following questions, you can measure your own well-being to produce your personal Well-being Profile, and compare your results to countries across Europe [the national economics foundation, UK]

Tags: resourcesurveyuk   Date: 18 Feb 10

What are National Accounts of Well-being and why do we need them?

Sets out a radical proposal to guide the direction of modern societies and the lives of people who live in them. In contrast to a narrow focus on economic indicators, it calls for governments to directly measure people’s subjective well-being: their experiences, feelings and perceptions of how their lives are going [the national economic foundation, UK]

Tags: articleresourceuk   Date: 17 Feb 10

Management of cannabis use disorder and related issues: A clinician’s guide

Provides the knowledge essential to help people reduce, cease, or manage their cannabis-use problems. The manual aims to provide facts, figures, and useful techniques to assist clinicians in providing evidence-based treatments for cannabis users wishing to change the patterns of their use. The manual also provides a number of worksheets to use with cannabis clients [National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, Australia]

Tags: australiareportresource   Date: 09 Feb 10

Human Rights Impact Resource Centre

The Human Rights Impact Resource Centre provides centralised access to a broad range of information and expertise on human rights impact assessment (HRIA) [Human Rights Impact]

Tags: internationalresourcewebsite   Date: 31 Jan 10

Screening and Brief Interventions (SBI) for Unhealthy Alcohol Use: A Step-by-Step Implementation…

This Guide is intended to help Level I and II Trauma Centers plan, implement, and continually improve the new Committee on Trauma (COT) alcohol-screening and brief intervention requirements [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, USA]

Tags: reportresourceusa   Date: 14 Jan 10

Recovery Advocacy Toolkit: Making Our Voices Count

Get the tools and resources you need to work on two important Faces & Voices initiatives – The Recovery Bill of Rights and The Recovery Voices Count campaign [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]

Tags: resourceusa   Date: 12 Jan 10

Experience Mindfulness

We spoke to Ruby Wax, Ed Halliwell and Kathy Andrews about their mindfulness experiences and how the therapy has helped them lead happier, more fulfilling lives [Be Mindful, UK]

Tags: filmresourceuk   Date: 06 Jan 10

Overdose workshop

Each year we lose far too many people to overdose (lets face it, one person dead is ‘too many’) so I decided it was about time I wrote a new workshop to try and help address the situation [Injecting Advice, UK]

Tags: resourceuk   Date: 06 Jan 10

Benzodiazepine Addiction,  Withdrawal & Recovery

Dedicated to sufferers of iatrogenic benzodiazepine tranquilliser addiction everywhere. Launched on July 6, 2000 with a dozen pages this site now has more than 1150 pages of articles and information, expert medical documents, news stories and personal accounts [benzo.org.uk]

Tags: resourceukwebsite   Date: 05 Jan 10

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse

by Zindel V. Segal, J. Mark G. Williams and John D. Teasdale: Written in a highly readable, accessible style, the book describes the theoretical basis for the approach and details each of the structured group sessions [Amazon, UK]

Tags: bookresourceuk   Date: 05 Jan 10

The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness

By Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn: A proven program from leading scientists, including a CD of guided meditations [Amazon, UK]

Tags: bookresourceuk   Date: 05 Jan 10

Be Mindful

Many people have found Mindfulness useful, whether they have used it to help them deal with recurrent depression or anxiety, or as a tool to improve their mental wellbeing and help them deal with stress [Mental Health Foundation, UK]

Tags: resourceukwebsite   Date: 05 Jan 10

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