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March 31, 2008: FIRST UK PRISON ALCOHOL-TREATMENT PROGRAMME IS ACCREDITED
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On 28 March 2008, the Correctional Services Accreditation Panel awarded full accreditation status to RAPt’s alcohol dependency treatment programme. This is the first such programme to be accredited in the UK. There has been a proliferation of rehabilitation programmes in...

March 29, 2008: TIME MAGAZINE DEVOTES COVER TO UK YOUTH SUBSTANCE PROBLEMS
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This story was published by Time magazine, 7 April 2008 Staying home in the face of danger isn't the British way. After suicide bombings in July 2005, Londoners continued working and socialising. Yet a survey by kids' charity TS Rebel...

March 27, 2008: RECLAIMING LIVES: BEST PRACTICES FOR SUSTAINABLE RECOVERY
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OPENING PLENARY for UKESAD 2008 Chair: Dr Brian Iddon MP with Baroness Massey, Martin Lee, Dr Barry Karlin Aspirations for treatment goals from a political angle, from a prisons and probation view, from the chair of the National Treatment Agency...

March 27, 2008: CREATING A FAVOURABLE POLICY CLIMATE FOR RECOVERY AND SELF CHANGE
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Kathy Gyngell and Andy Horwood demonstrate how to analyse the dynamic between objectives and performance targets of government drugs and alcohol policy, identify policy prerequisites for expansion and growth of ‘quality’ treatment, and discuss the contribution to policy planning and...

March 27, 2008: AN INSPECTOR CALLS:
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THE VALUE OF STANDARDS/ACCREDITATION At the end of the presentations by Jeff Wilbee of IC&RC, Nikki Migas of Carf and David Finney of CSCI , attendees will be able to apply standards to running a successful service, value outcomes, and...

March 27, 2008: RESEARCH: LONG-TERM RECOVERY SUCCESSES
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RESEARCH UPDATES: SURVEY RESULTS, IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS inc PROFESSIONALS IN RECOVERY Dr David Best and Dr John Marsden catch up with the latest research on long-term recovery successes, including the NTA-commissioned research on Pofessionals in Recovery led by Dr Best....

March 27, 2008: USING EMPIRICAL AND EVIDENCE-BASED FINDINGS...
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... TO ACHIEVE BETTER TREATMENT OUTCOMES WITH LIMITED RESOURCES Gerald Shulman reveals how to apply knowledge from evidence-based and empirical sources to improve treatment outcomes, often at little or no extra cost. Expand levels of care, provide more individualised treatment,...

March 27, 2008: ASAM SUMMIT AT UKESAD 2008
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THE ROLE OF DOCTORS IN THE CARE OF PATIENTS WITH ADDICTION Chaired by Dr Andrea Barthwell, with Dr Michael Miller (us), Dr Michael Wilks (Europe), Dr Mike McPhillips (uk) Doctors have opportunities for powerful interventions – but too often waste...

March 27, 2008: PROFESSOR PETER FRIEDMANN TO SPEAK AT UKESAD
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Linking Addiction Treatment with Other Medical and Psychiatric Systems This session by Professor Peter Friedmann is vital for practitioners in multidisciplinary teams. Attendees will be able to: list barriers to optimal linkage, summarise the benefits of linked services and discuss...

March 23, 2008: AA HISTORY IN PICTURES
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Click here to see 112 photos of the founders of AA, their supporters and their work.

March 22, 2008: ALCOHOL INCREASES RISK OF BREAK CANCER BY 50%
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Cancer Research says alcohol causes about 2,000 breast cancer cases a year. Now the Department of Health has confirmed that women who drink above the government's recommended limit of 14 units a week are 50% more likely to develop breast...

March 22, 2008: PROFESSOR CARLO DICLEMENTE TO SPEAK AT UKESAD
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Carlo C DiClemente PhD... is professor and chair - Department of Psychology, University of Maryland. Carlo DiClemente is the co-developer with Dr James Prochaska of the Transtheoretical Model of behaviour change, widely known as the Stages of Change. He is...

March 22, 2008: PROFESSOR ALAN MARLATT TO SPEAK AT UKESAD
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G Alan Marlatt PhD... is professor of Psychology and director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington. He is an internationally recognised psychologist in the field of addiction, and has served as a visiting faculty member...

March 21, 2008: DRUNKOREXIA: WOMEN STARVE TO BINGE-DRINK
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Growing numbers of young women skip meals to allow them to binge drink without putting on weight, experts have warned in the Daily Mail. The phenomenon of "drunkorexia" is most common among university students faced with the conflicting pressures of...

March 21, 2008: ALCOHOL HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS CLIMB 26%
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The number of alcohol-related hospital admissions shot up by more than 26% since the introduction of 24-hour pub drinking [17 March 2008]. Over 162,000 people were taken into hospital after turning up at casualty departments with alcohol-related complaints last year,...

March 20, 2008: IT PAYS TO REWARD TREATMENT PROVIDERS BY RESULTS
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A government which pays substance-abuse treatment providers for results, not services, could foster improved quality of care and accountability, according to the Treatment Research Institute, in a study published in Health Policy. It was co-authored by Thomas McLellan PhD and...

March 20, 2008: DOCTORS TO BE GIVEN SPECIAL TRAINING...
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Medics to learn to identify people who drink too much, government says. The government promises that, within three years, all medical schools in England will have alcohol training on the curriculum. Addiction Today hopes that it will not be a...

March 17, 2008: BUDGET NOT THE ANSWER TO WORKPLACE DRINKING PROBLEMS
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Over 175million working days a year are lost because of alcohol misuse – costing the UK economy £13billion annually. Increasing the duty on alcohol to solve this huge problem will not work, according to Liverpool organisation Health@Work. As part of...

March 17, 2008: DRUG POLICY ROUND-TABLE:
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PROFESSOR DAVID NUTT GIVES HIS VIEWS The chairman of ACMD, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, speaks to Radio New Zealand on the eve of a review of drug laws. Click on NZ Drug Policy Round Table to...

March 13, 2008: FOOD DISORDERS AND DIET DRUGS
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When Lindsay Lohan was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving, police said they found cocaine in her pocket. Paris Hilton recently admitted to US talk show host Larry King that she takes Adderall for attention deficit disorder. Both drugs are often...

March 13, 2008: BUDGET RAISES COST OF DRINKING, SMOKING
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Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Addictions faculty welcomes increase in alcohol tax Dr Michael Farrell, chair of the Addictions faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which is also one of the key partners of the Alcohol Health Alliance, welcomed the...

March 7, 2008: INSURANCE FOR ADDICTION, MENTAL HEALTH
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Bill puts cover on a par with other illnesses Will - can - the UK benefit similarly? In a major victory for addiction/dependency treatment and recovery advocates, the US House of Representatives passed a bill to mandate that insurers cover...

March 6, 2008: DEFINING “12-STEP” TREATMENT:
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First UK survey identifies links to mainstream practices Relating therapies applied in “12-step treatment” to those practised by mainstream professionals can ease access to effective care – and increase the workforce capacity to treat addictive disorders by thousands of qualified...

March 5, 2008: LABOUR IS "IN DENIAL" ABOUT BOOZE
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...violence caused by 24-hour licensing Original report by JAMES SLACK in the Daily Mail 5 May 2008. Illustrations from the Daily Mail. Labour is "in denial" about the misery caused by 24-hour drinking. Ministers were forced to admit that there...

March 3, 2008: CONSERVATIVES PLAN TO REWARD PRISONS "BY RESULTS"
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A Tory 'green paper' offers a radical "payment by results" scheme to help rehabilitate offenders. It would trigger cash rewards for prisons if inmates stay on the straight and narrow after release. The proposals come days after the prison population...

March 3, 2008: ADDICTION RECOVERY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
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Tackling drugs, changing communities KATHY GYNGELL reports [in March 2008 Addiction Today journal] on the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s “Tackling Drugs, Changing Communities” and asks if a redefinition of drug use could shift policy from controlling supply abroad to prevention and...

March 2, 2008: LORD MANCROFT AND THE NHS
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Lord Mancroft , cofounder of the Addiction Recovery Foundation in 1989 and its chairman until he became its patron in 2007, has been in the news recently due to speaking in the House of Lords about his personal experiences in...

March 2, 2008: GAMBLING FREE-FOR-ALL
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In a letter to the scottish and welsh executives, prime minister Gordon Brown confirmed that he would axe the first Las Vegas-style supercasino in Manchester - but now says he plans to open another 16 gambling palaces and 88 smaller...

March 1, 2008: THERAPEUTIC HYPNOSIS WITH CHILDREN & ADOLESCENTS
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edited by William Wester, Laurence Sugarman Published by by Crown House at £29.50 (www.crownhouse.co.uk). Hardback 489+ pages. ISBN 978-184590037-3. The authors have gathered experts in the field of hypnosis to examine its application to children and young people across a...

March 1, 2008: THE POCKET LIFE COACH
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by Pete Chapman Published by by Crown House at £12.99 (www.crownhouse.co.uk, www.chus.com). 137 pages. ISBN 978-184590071-7 “COACH YOURSELF TO HEALTH and happiness” urges the author. He knows what he is talking about: A UK bodybuilding champion in 1991, his body...

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