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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]
‘Controlling and regulating drugs’ (NZLC IP16, Wellington 2010) is an Issues Paper which traces the history of drug policy and regulation in New Zealand, and reviews the current approach to drug control and regulation [Law Commission, New Zealand]
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]
by William L White and Larry Davidson: The mental health and addiction fields could use the concept of recovery to form a more effective behavioral health system [Behavioral Healthcare, USA]
by William L White and Larry Davidson: Structural differences pose the main challenge to integrating the mental health and addiction fields [Behavioral Healthcare, USA]
When I was using drugs and alcohol, I was always chasing a buzz of some kind. Anything to get me away from the bad feelings I always felt inside. Last night I had that same buzz. But, unlike the ones I knew before, this one has not worn off yet. And I am not dreading the come down like I used to [Louis, WIred In]
If we start to say that recovery is not for everybody, then there is a danger that we start to assess, suggest prerequisites or just decide who it is and isn’t for. Surely the point is that recovery is for everybody, because it’s a hope, a process of change, an opportunity [Melody, Wired In]
t’s been a hectic few weeks. Of course, I am not complaining because I am lucky enough to get paid very well for doing something professionally that I am passionate about personally and for that I am very grateful indeed [Mark Gilman, WIred In]
Last summer, someone who had recently stopped drinking asked me in a support group “How will I know when I’ve made it?”. I told him that I don’t think you ever really will know, but you will ask this question less and less as time marches on [Daemon, Wired In]
My earliest memory was coming home from an appointment with my dad when I was five and not being able to get into the house. My dad had to put me through the open window. When we got in, there was a note on the fireplace from my mum saying she had left [Louis, Wired In]
I think that maybe reality is starting to hit me and I keep pushing it away. I have had so much support in my grief, I value the comments and real feelings that are being sent to me from ex users and their honesty is so humbling [Susan C, WIred In]
Whoosh. That was the sound of the last seven days passing in a flurry of blogs and discussions that show recovery, despite being (willfully?!) misunderstood by some (see anthrax deaths and recovery) is on the march, the walk. The surfboard and could well be happening in a location not far from you [Michaela, WIred In]
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]
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]
In this episode of Hooked I’m interviewing Rupert George from the Talking Drugs website. We talked about the purpose of the site to inform drug policy and information, its international balance, some of Ruperts opinions of the international drug situation and the fact Talking Drugs needs more help from people like you [Injecting Advice, UK]
The results show that the average cotinine levels among non-smoking children declined by 59% from 1996 to 2006, indicating that children’s exposure to secondhand smoke has decreased markedly since the mid-nineties [Addiction, UK]
This monthly newsletter produced by the Home Office Drug Strategy Unit contains up-to-date news and developments about the drug strategy. It also has details of events, guidance and publications [Home Office, UK]
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Home Office contacted DIP intensive areas in June 2009 and encouraged local police forces to increase the use of the ‘inspector’s authority’ provision to drug test more people on arrest [Release, UK]
Help us save it: With 5 beds, Middlegate is open 24/7, 365 days a year and offers drug and alcohol treatment, including detoxification, for to 11-18 year olds; in a safe, rural setting [Addiction Today, UK]
“This announcement is a belated acknowledgement that the government has not been able to tackle alcohol-related crime and disorder effectively on behalf of local residents. These changes will still not allow residents any greater say over local licensing issues – a travesty for those who’ve had to suffer alcohol-fuelled night time disorder for too long” [Alcohol Concern, UK]
By increasing cigarette taxes by $1 per pack, the states could raise more than $9 billion in new annual revenue to help close severe budget shortfalls, while also reducing smoking and saving lives, according to a new report released today by a coalition of public health organizations [Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, USA]
As cricket administrators ponder why the fans are switching off, scientists say the players have become “mobile billboards for unhealthy lifestyles”. Junk food and alcohol brands prominently feature during cricket broadcasts on television, researchers said [WA Today, Australia]
We must reform women’s prisons… Suicide, self-mutilation, drug abuse and serious mental illness: this is the terrifying reality of life in women’s prisons today. Prison governors now believe that at least 80 per cent of women who end up in jail are addicted to heroin, crack, alcohol, or a combination of all three [Observer Editorial, UK]
Robert and Linda Waxler tell the story of the long painful loss of their son as he became addicted to the heroin that finally killed him [Beautifully and powerfully written, highly recommended to those people who have lost a child to drugs – Ed]
