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Today, I have devoted Daily Dose to people who have lost loved ones to drugs and alcohol, the people we have lost, and to all those people who are helping families, friends and carers of those people affected by substance use problems [David Clark, Wired In]
May I encourage the bereaved members of Wired In to use therapeutic writing to express how they feel. I wrote the letter below in October 2008, 4 years after my son died. I realised even after four years how angry I was but writing it down inspired me not to give up hope that I could use my loss, our loss, to help others. Hence I wrote my book and set up my charity DrugFAM. Friday 19th February will be the 6th anniversary of my son’s death [Elizabeth Burton-Phillips, Wired In]
‘This book left me in tears. Nothing in my time as lead Judge for the West London Dedicated Drugs Court has brought home so clearly the hell addicts and their families go through, It should be compulsory reading… [Amazon, UK]
What do you if you don’t want to believe something? You can’t bury your head in the sand because once you pull your head out it will still be there. What do they call it, ‘the elephant in the room’ – it took me a long time to actually understand what people meant by this [Susan C, Wired In]
So with your pain a life saving message. And Michael will be on the phone in our recovery message, when the still struggling addict calls us in pain. We can not replace your son, but you now have millions of recovery sons and daughters with love and belonging [Verve, Wired In]
In 2008, nef was commissioned by the UK Government’s Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Well-being to review the inter-disciplinary work of over 400 scientists from across the world. The aim was to identify a set of evidence-based actions to improve well-being, which individuals would be encouraged to build into their daily lives [the new economics foundation, UK]
Commissioned by the Government’s Foresight project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing, this report recommends five ways towards well-being. It presents the evidence and rationale between each of the five ways, drawing on a wealth of psychological literature [the new economics foundation, UK]
The results from the most comprehensive international survey of well-being to date have been used to construct the first ever set of national well-being indicators [nef, UK]
Why should we embrace recovery? Because it can bring vital quality to life beyond addiction, say David Best and Mark Gilman {link to specific article not working, so please look at virtual magazine} [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Neil McKeganey makes a case for looking critically at stigma relating to drug use, while DDN reports on the first phase of UKDPC’s project on understanding stigma {link to specific article not working, so please look at virtual magazine} [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Treatment services do not have to ask patients to adopt the belief system on which 12-step groups are founded in order to encourage patients to tap in to the social support offered by these groups and improve their chances of sustained abstinence [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
A Community Interest Company (CIC), the ‘UK Recovery Federation’, is to be established and the following outlines the proposed vision, principles, aims and objectives of this company. This has been produced for wide distribution and consultation with all those interested in the development and establishment of a British Recovery Movement [UK Recovery Federation]
I did a blog last week around 12 ‘Principles of Recovery’. As those who will have seen it will know, I took principles that were developed in the US (check it our for details of source) and tinkered about with them a little. I think some of the ‘tinkering’ was fairly significant and I thought it was worthwhile bunging them out again and explaining my thinking [Alastair, WIred In]
Our champions of recovery will be working in the front line, taking referrals, doing syringe exchange, developing and facilitating Smart Recovery and working with the staff to embrace the recovery agenda. This has been a long time coming and is very exciting [Oliver, Wired In]
One of the most amazing, and perhaps unique, things about the Wired In community is its ability and willingness to give support to others [Michaela, Wired In]
Keith Humphreys, Stanford University School of Medicine, speaks about self-help/mutual help sustaining recovery {28’24”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & 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]
This research further indicates that physical access barriers result in treatment denials to persons with physical disabilities and that programmatic barriers may result in similar declines to persons of select disability groups [Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, USA]
The Review followed the publication of the global Commission on Social Determinants of Health, also chaired by Sir Michael Marmot and published by the WHO. The CSDH advocated that national governments develop and implement strategies and policies suited to their particular national context aimed at improving health equity [University College of London, UK]
In April 2009 Transform published a groundbreaking report, titled ‘A Comparison of the Cost-effectiveness of the Prohibition and Regulation of Drugs’ We sent a copy to the Secretary of State in July 2009 with the letter below. Our tardiness was to put to shame however, by the time it took the Home Secretary to respond – we received his response today, 15th Feb 2010 – eight months later [Transform Drug Policy Foundation, UK]
At the start of Children of Alcoholics Week, victims talk about their shame, loneliness and guilt with nowhere to turn for help [Observer, UK]
A supportive, helpful, practical book for family members of recovering addicts [Amazon, UK]
Companion Document to The Guidelines for the Treatment of Alcohol Problems [Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government]
Over the coming months, we will be writing and publishing on this site a good deal of material focused on drugs and alcohol, substance use-related problems, addiction, treatment and recovery that will help family members and others gain a better understanding [David Clark, Wired In]
