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Bill
White with a UK slant |
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In the UK’s welfare state, there is a
large body of middle class professionals (including drugs workers)
who are charged with managing the lower orders of addicts. They
may unwittingly “infantilse” the people in their
care when they say things like, “You’re not ready
for detox” [Mark Gilman Blog, Wired In] |
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Drug
users tell of recovery |
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Drug addiction and alcohol dependency are not
inevitable and those seeking help to recover their lives must
not be written off, Minister for Community Safety Fergus Ewing
said today [Scottish Government, UK] |
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Stigma |
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Stigma is a massive issue for us all… We
need to challenge it and show it for what it is: unfounded and
based on fear. Stigma is like a dog doing its business on a pleasant
pavement. I don’t like it, it smells horrid and to be honest,
brown was never my colour, but I certainly don’t have to
step in it [Peapod Blog, Wired In] |
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Class
A lesson in the war against drugs |
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A radical initiative is taking drug education
out of the classroom and into the coroner's court [Times, UK] |
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Revisions
to the Paddington Alcohol Test (PAT) 2009 |
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Revisions to the Paddington Alcohol Test for
Early Identification of Alcohol Misuse and Brief Advice to Reduce
Emergency Department Re-attendance - Robin Touquet and Adrian
Brown [Alcohol and Alcoholism Journal, UK] |
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Pupils
drink less in attachment-generating schools |
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Further evidence from a US study that adolescent
substance use is affected not just by specific prevention activities
or the youngster’s individual circumstances, but by a school’s
overall climate, especially the attachment it generates in its
pupils [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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Thank
you to Action on Addiction and Wired In |
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Both Irene & I want to say a huge thank
you for the Bill White seminar. That man is a legend and is so
inspiring and motivating; and he just talks so much sense! We
can only hope that his messages eventually percolate through
to the people and organisations in this field… [Ian MacDonald
Blog, Wired In] |
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Older
people are often excluded from key mental health services because
of their age, says healthcare watchdog |
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The study showed older people were often unable
to access the full range of services, including: out of hours
services; crisis services; psychological therapies; drug and
alcohol misuse services [Health Care Commission, UK] |
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Frost
over the world - Drugs debate |
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27 Mar 09 - Part 4 [YouTube] |
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Demand
for drug testing bolsters Concateno |
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Families riven by parental drug and alcohol
abuse have proved a boon to diagnostic company Concateno, as
buoyant demand for drug-testing in family law cases has caused
revenues to surge [Financial Times, UK] |
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Acupuncture
fails to ease opiate detoxification |
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From London, one of only a handful of randomised
studies trialling acupuncture for opiate detoxification adds
to the ‘ineffective’ verdicts, raising the question
of why acupuncture continues to be popular [Drug and Alcohol
Findings, UK] |
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40
drug dealers charged in triumph for tip-off line |
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Nearly 40 alleged drug dealers were charged
by police after being shopped by members of the public calling
the Crimestoppers hotline [Edinburgh Evening News, UK] |
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Consultant
in lung cancer calls for a ban on smoking throughout NHS hospitals |
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Dr Ian Campbell, a chest consultant at Llandough
Hospital, said attempts by NHS trusts to prohibit smoking within
their grounds need to be enforced by laws to make smoking illegal
on any NHS estates [Wales Online, UK] |
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Call
for hallucinogenic drug ban |
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There have been calls to stop a herbal drug
which can produce powerful hallucinations from being sold legally
in Northern Ireland [BBC, UK] |
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Drugs
strategy in tatters as staff laid off |
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Plans for a new national drugs strategy are
in tatters after community groups withdrew from negotiations
in a row with the Government over control [Drugs.ie, Ireland] |
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Connections
Krakow conference |
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A successful event reminds us of achievements
so far, but, most importantly, of many challenges still ahead!
[Connections, Europe] |
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Addiction
should be treated as a disease, not as a moral failing |
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In a paper released last week, the British
Columbia Medical Association challenges this view, and suggests
that addiction is, and should be treated as, a disease rather
than a personal failure. [Vancouver Sun, Canada] |
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Hep
C Review magazine |
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Available on the website of [Hepatitis C Council
of NSW, Australia] |
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The
first casualty of war |
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After decades of fighting the war on drugs,
the problem just keeps getting bigger and more destructive and
use keeps going up and more people get killed [UKCIA] |
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US
launches new fight against Afghan drug trade |
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American authorities are planning a broad new
campaign to choke off the prime source of financing for terrorists
in Afghanistan, sending in dozens of federal drug enforcement
agents to disrupt the country's massive opium trade and the money
that streams to the Taliban and al-Qaida [Ariana, Afghanistan] |
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