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Background
briefing |
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Professor David Clark looks at the nature of
addiction as a chronic disorder [Drink and Drugs News, UK] |
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Wired
In Aims |
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I continue my description of our organisation
Wired In by showing you our aims [the prof speaks out] |
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Wired
In Charter |
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The principles on which we operate as individuals
and as an organisation [the prof speaks out] |
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Star
quality |
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A new system is being introduced to rate the
standard of residential treatment, giving clearer choices to
clients. David Finney from the Commission for Social Care Inspection
explains [Drink and Drugs News, UK] |
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Bars
to progress |
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Are criminal justice interventions working
well enough to justify the significant investment in them? Last
month's report from the UK Drug Policy Commission suggests not.
Roger Howard gives us an overview [Drink and Drugs News, UK] |
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Unlocking
prison reform |
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When will we take notice of evidence and reform
prison drug treatment? Comment from Kathy Gyngell of the Prisons
and Addictions Forum [Drink and Drugs News, UK] |
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Chapter
one... |
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Fiona Friend looks at how creative writing
can be used as therapy to recover from addiction [Drink and Drugs
News, UK] |
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Hidden
harm: another postcode lottery? |
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Research shows that children of drug-using
parents are still vulnerable to an unreliable patchwork of services,
say David Best, Saffron Homayoun and John Witton [Drink and Drugs
News, UK] |
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My
great escape |
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Down in London Bri Edwards' heroin habit required
a steady income; nothing else for it but to get a job - whatever
that took [Drink and Drugs News, UK] |
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Letters |
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Responses to recent DDN features [Drink and
Drugs News, UK] |
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2008
National Drug Treatment Conference - Archive |
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Audio and Powerpoint presentations [Exchange
Supplies, UK] |
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New
FRANK resources for Mentors and Befrienders |
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Drugs information for Mentoring and Befriending
organisations and volunteers [Home Office, UK] |
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Health
Behaviour in School-Aged Children |
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This report presents data on adolescent health
from the World Health Organization (WHO) collaborative cross-national
Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study in Scotland.
90-page PDF [CAHRU, UK] |
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Outcome
Commissioning - Digest of Key Documents and Tools |
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This digest has been prepared to showcase sample
documents and tools that West Lothian Drug Action Team have developed
and found useful in implementing outcome commissioning locally.
32-page PDF [DMIS, UK] |
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Release
of SRN event film |
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Following the successful completion of the ‘Recovering
Mental Health in Scotland’ event series, where we visited
Glasgow, Dumfries, Dundee, Inverness, Aberdeen and Edinburgh
to share and promote the findings from the SRN narrative research
project, we are pleased to announce the release of a film made
at the launch event in Glasgow on October 9th [Scottish Recovery
Network, UK] |
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The
Great Debate? |
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To create a treatment system - through greater
public and media understanding, through education and advocacy,
and yes, through lobbying and campaigning – that has at
its core an acceptance of the right of people experiencing problems
with drug use to treatment that is not dependent on our ability
to excite fear and suspicion [Sara McGrail, UK] |
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The
Poor Relation - has the emphasis on ‘localism’ really
improved alcohol commissioning |
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This report, drawn from the results of a freedom
of information survey carried out by Alcohol Concern between
November 2007 and February 2008, examines the state of health
of alcohol treatment commissioning among PCTs in each Government
region. 22-page PDF [Alcohol Concern, UK] |
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Keeping
it in the family: growing up with parents who misuse alcohol |
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Children affected by their parents drinking
may not always provide care for them depending on the severity
of the alcohol problem, however parental alcohol misuse can cause
serious problems for those children affected, as this Briefing
Paper reports. 12-page PDF [Alcohol Concern, UK] |
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A
Cost – Benefit and Cost – Effectiveness Analysis
of Vancouver’s Safe Injection Facility |
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After a review of existing literature regarding
both the efficacy of supervised injection sites generally, and
Vancouver’s site more specifically, we engaged in two kinds
of analysis to determine benefit to cost ratios for the Vancouver
SIS, and cost effectiveness: linear trend analysis and mathematical
modelling. 67-page PDF [Martin Andresen & Neil Boyd, Canada] |
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Public
Order and Supervised Injection Facilities |
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Vancouver’s SIS. 29-page OPDF [Neil Boyd,
J. Bryan Kinney, Carla McLean, Jon Heidt and Isabel Otter, Canada] |
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Vote
on drug consumption rooms |
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Assuming that there is a need established,
would you support the opening of a drug consumption room in your
area? [Tony Duffin blog, Ireland] |
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Addiction
and Mental Health Indicators Among Ontario Adults, 1977-2005 |
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This report describes the extent of addiction
and mental health indicators among Ontario adults aged 18 years
and older. 213-page PDF [Centre for Addiction and Mental Health,
Canada] |
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Nothing
About Us Without Us |
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Greater, meaningful involvement of people who
use illegal drugs: A public health, ethical, and human rights
imperative (International edition). 83-page PDF [Canadian HIV/AIDS
Legal Network, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Open Society
Institute] |
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Harm
Reduction Developments 2008 |
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Countries with Injection-Driven HIV Epidemics.
84- page PDF [Open Society Institute] |
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