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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]
by William L White and John F Kelly: The language used to label alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems exerts a significant influence on people experiencing such problems and on how professional helpers, policy makers, and the public view such people [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
William White at Scotland’s Futures Forum Event {37’00”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
An Interview with Phillip Valentine by William L. White, MA [Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center, USA}
Compared to being treated on their own, alcohol dependent women experienced more lasting improvements when couples-based therapy embedded therapeutic processes in a lasting relationship with a willing husband or partner [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
In preparing to do a presentation on the state of mutual aid in the UK, I discovered something very interesting. Mutual aid is not only alive and well, it is exceedingly healthy. The findings below are based on the best evidence I could find (including counting hundreds of meetings on websites!) [David McCartney, Wired In]
Have you ever seen a swan, gliding towards its destination, barely causing a ripple on the tranquil surface of the glittering river? Well underneath that swan there are a pair of legs going like the clappers. And so it is with the UKRF – our little limbs are toiling away at a terrific rate beneath the surface until we are ready to rise up in a flurry of splashes and take flight [UK Recovery Foundation]
I could weep. Really I could. At opportunity squandered… The publication of the Home Office document The Cross-Government Drugs Research Strategy this month was a great opportunity to advance recovery research in England… The word ‘Recovery’ is mentioned twice only. In a 26 page document [Peapod, UK]
The 2008 Drug Strategy, which sets out the Government’s response to the problems of drug use, made a commitment to improving the development and use of the evidence base by taking steps to better co-ordinate drugs research across Government {Home Office, UK]
Imagine walking onto your child’s room and finding them dead, this is another person’s tragic story not your own. You read and hear about it all the time. But living with a child who has a heroin addiction, you never think our want to think about worst case scenario, but here my wife, daughter’s and myself are right in the middle of a real nightmare. Perry’s dead [Keith F, WIred In]
Michaela has asked for information on how to respond to someone who writes about their bereavement on Wired In, and I’d like to add my thoughts to Elizabeth’s. Particularly with a substance-related death, people find it very difficult to know just what to say, and often even end up avoiding the issue. This is largely due to stigma and is yet another blow for those bereaved [Ian MacDonald, Wired In]
Time, it’s a funny old thing isn’t it? Not funny ha ha but funny weird. Maybe it is sitting down to the same task at roughly the same time each week (an Editor’s version of Groundhog Day) that makes me more conscious of the minutes, hours and days passing [Michaela, Wired In]
If further proof were needed of the government’s failed ‘methadone prescribing to reduce re offending’ strategy then it was given in a Scottish Court last week [Kathy Gyngell, Centre for Policy Studies, UK]
Inexcess TV Founder George Williams chairs the Question Time debate after a full day of discussions and workshops on the Road to Recovery. The exchanges range over questions of how we might see recovery being delivered, who will pay for it and what the future holds {46’03”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
Young people’s specialist drug and alcohol treatment is ‘at a crossroads’. There are different directions it could take, particularly at a time of political change, high octane public debate and tight public finances. Against this background, DrugScope embarked on a consultation process in 2009 with people working in young people’s treatment [Drugscope, UK]
As the country awaits a new government, can we hope for improvement in guiding desperate, vulnerable people towards true recovery from addiction? [Addiction Today, UK]
Following consultation on the provisional recommendations, the National Clinical Guideline Centre for Acute and Chronic Conditions and the Acute Coronary Syndromes Guideline Development Group (GDG) have considered and responded to stakeholder comments and amended the draft guideline [NICE, UK]
Authors of the Europe-wide study say that restricting access to pain-killing drugs in this way is a breach of patients’ human rights, and they conclude that “there is an ethical and public health imperative to address these issues vigorously and urgently” [Medical News Today, UK]
As new prescribing guidelines are launched, we reveal a huge rise in the use of opioids such as codeine and diamorphine [Telegraph, UK]
The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR) at the University of California was created in 2000 to conduct clinical and pre-clinical studies of cannabinoids, including smoked marijuana, to provide evidence one way or the other to answer the question “Does marijuana have therapeutic value?” [CMCR, USA]
This month also marks the implementation of a new policy on tobacco papers at PLoS Medicine. While we continue to be interested in analyses of ways of reducing tobacco use, we will no longer be considering papers where support, in whole or in part, for the study or the researchers comes from a tobacco company. As a medical journal we do this for two reasons [PLoS Medicine, USA]
The UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) annual report released today pointedly criticizes Argentina, Brazil and Mexico for moving to decriminalize the possession of drugs for personal consumption, cautioning that such moves may “send the wrong message” [International Drug Policy Consortium, UK]
The harmful use of alcohol has a serious effect on public health and is considered to be one of the main risk factors for poor health globally [World Health Organisation]
Introduces a classification of psychoactive drugs based on their major mode of impact on the mind, and briefly illustrates the multitude of factors that influence the way that a drug can affect a person and ultimately contribute to a drug problem [David Clark, Wired In]
