Most important and relevant articles in professional circles and
popular press in July 2004.
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Addiction
and recovery |
| For me, addiction is primarily about loss. Loss of control
is the obvious one, but closely followed by loss of self worth,
loss of values, and loss of health [British Medical Journal
Careers, UK] |
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Advocacy
for Drug Users: A Guide |
| The purpose of this EIU guide is to help DAATs and local partners
to consider whether, and how, advocacy could be incorporated
into the development of Integrated Care [Effective Interventions
Unit, Scottish Executive] |
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Anxiety
Disorders and Alcohol Misuse Factsheet |
| This factsheet outlines recent research and treatment options
for the management of concurrent alcohol misuse and anxiety
disorders [Alcohol Concern, UK] |
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Attitudes
to cannabis use are more tolerant - but there are still clear
limits on drug-taking |
| Views about cannabis have shifted considerably over the past
two decades, with 41 per cent of Britons now supporting its
legalisation - up from just 12 per cent in 1983. However, very
few (eight per cent) endorse the view that adults should be
free to take any drugs they wish, says the report into a study
led by Nina Stratford of the National Centre for Social Research
[Economic & Social Research Council, UK] |
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Evaluation
of the Scottish Prison Service Transitional Care Initiative |
| This is the second in a series of reports on the evaluation
of the Scottish Prison Service Transitional Care arrangements
[Effective Interventions Unit, Scottish Executive] |
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High
price to pay for jailing women |
| Last week's Comprehensive Spending Review contains the promise
that the government will 'pilot radical new approaches to meet
the specific needs of women offenders, to tackle the causes
of crime and re-offending among this group and reduce the need
for custody' [Observer, UK] |
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The
Home Office Strategic Plan - Confident Communities in a Secure
Britain |
| Includes a chapter (pp. 83) on "Reducing the harm caused
by illegal drugs" [Home Office, UK] |
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The
loneliness of an alcoholic doctor |
| I knew I had a problem, but self disclosure could result in
suspension. Besides, as a doctor, with my "insight"
and knowledge, I assumed immunity to addiction. The loss of
work could end with me living on the streets, so I attempted
to scramble through. But as any alcoholic knows, it always gets
worse [British Medical Journal Careers, UK] |
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A
Must Buy: Special value CD of UK/European Symposium on Addictive
Disorders |
| The UK/European Symposium on Addictive Disorders was widely
recognised as the most innovative and wide-ranging therapy-led
conference to ever be held in the UK. To enable more people
to experience this amazing event, the Addiction Recovery Foundation
teamed up with Claripoint, specialists in webconferencing, to
produce a CD-ROM containing around thirty hours of the most
popular presentations at the event. Some presentations are in
video format and some in audio format and all are accompanied
by synchronised slide shows, as they were on the day [Addiction
Today, UK] |
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New
S.F. Program to Help Addicted Homeless |
| Officials in San Francisco, Calif., launched a new 10-year
plan designed to help homeless individuals by providing support
services that include permanent housing and treatment for addiction
[Join Together, USA] |
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Opiate
Replacement Therapy Rarely Available to Inmates |
| Recognizing a huge opiate-addiction problem among inmates,
New Mexico is breaking new ground by extending methadone maintenance
treatment (MMT) to local prisons. Across the country, however,
few prisons provide MMT to patients [Join Together, USA] |
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Pharmacotherapy
and the future of the drug war |
| Compulsory use of pharmacotherapy would represent a striking
expansion of the state's policing mechanisms on at least two
new fronts [Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics, USA]
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Presentations
from the "Coping with Parental Drinking" Symposium,
Cologne 14th & 15th May 2004 |
| The abstracts are in MS Word format, the presentations are
in pdf. On ENCARE site, a European project, founded to help
professionals tackle the problems faced by children who live
in risky family environments [ENCARE] |
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Response
to: Choosing Health? A consultation on improving people’s
health |
| The Royal College of Physicians welcomes the opportunity to
respond to the ‘Choosing Health?’ consultation.
Our response focuses on four key public health issues: smoking,
alcohol, obesity and sexual health [Royal College of Physicians,
UK] |
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Self-harm
patients 'deserve dignity' |
| An NHS agency today ordered an end to the punitive treatment
of people who deliberately injure themselves, including stitching
up their wounds without anaesthetic, in a bid to tackle Britain's
"epidemic" levels of self-harm [Guardian, UK] |
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The
social and health consequences of cocaine use |
| Conference talk by Peter Cohen [CEDRO, The Netherlands] |
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Transplantation
for alcoholic liver disease |
| Transplants are appropriate for selected people with alcohol
induced liver damage [British Medical Journal Editorial, UK]
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Trapped
in a teenage wasteland |
| They're wild, unwanted and utterly without fear... Mark Townsend
meets the lost children who still have dreams of a better future
[Observer, UK] |
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The
wrong gear |
| He was known as the 'Boy Dave', a prodigious cycling talent
who last year became world champion and had his sights set on
two golds in Athens next month. But now David Millar is in disgrace,
facing a ban from the sport for using the illegal performance-enhancing
drug EPO. Why did he do it? He tells about the pressure to win,
the shame of his exposure - and how, deep down, he wanted to
get caught [Guardian, UK] |
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Young
People and Alcohol |
| This factsheet looks at research into young people’s
drinking. It indicates the prevalence of drinking, trends in
drinking patterns and highlights alcohol-related problems that
are specific to young people [Alcohol Concern, UK] |
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