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May 28, 2008: SCOTLAND PHASES OUT METHADONE
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NEW DRUG POLICY Health authorities in Scotland are planning to phase out methadone treatment programmes for heroin addicts and offer instead alternative therapies and residential rehabilitation programmes. The change in policy follows mounting evidence which has shown that methadone programmes,...

May 28, 2008: SCOTTISH DRUG POLICY - May 2008
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THE ROAD TO RECOVERY Scotland publishes its new drug policy - The Road To Recovery - today. "Since becoming minister for community safety a year ago, I have had the privilege of meeting many people working in the field," Fergus...

May 25, 2008: PHARMACOLOGY AND ADDICTION
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YOUR DEFINITIVE CUTTING-EDGE GUIDE This article will be published on the website 30 June 2008 REFERENCES: 1. Addolorato G, Balducci G, Capristo E, Attilia ML, Taggi F, Gasbarrini G, Ceccanti M 1992: Gammahydroxybutyric acid (GHB) in the treatment of alcohol...

May 23, 2008: CHILD CASUALTIES OF BINGE DRINKING
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NHS INFORMATION CENTRE REVEALS SCALE OF HARM TO TEENAGERS Over 160 children each week are admitted to hospital with alcohol-related problems. 8,494 youngsters under 18 ended up in hospital through drink in 2007. The NHS Information Centre issued a survey...

May 20, 2008: UKESAD 2008: EVALUATION FORM
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AN EXTRA CHANCE TO COMPLETE YOUR FORM AND GAIN IC&RC CEUs Simply download the form by clicking: Download evaluation_form_ukesad_2008.pdf Then complete and post to: ARF - UKESAD evaluation form 193 Victoria Street London SW1E 5NE

May 20, 2008: UKESAD 2009 DISCOUNTS
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SAVE MONEY BY BOOKING EARLY! 6th UK/EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON ADDICTIVE DISORDERS 14, 15, 16 May 2009 in central London Confirmed speakers: Professor Carlton Erickson of Texas University (neurochemistry of addiction), ASAM president Dr Mike Miller, International Center for Health Concerns...

May 15, 2008: NO NEED FOR WEED
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by James Langton Published by Clearhead at £9.99; 232 pages ISBN 978-0-9557626-0-4 No Need For Weed comes over as an honest account of how it really is to break the habit of cannabis dependency. It is punctuated with real-lfie experiences...

May 13, 2008: CANNABIS: HEART ATTACK RISKS
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Smoking cannabis can raise the risk of heart attacks, reveals authoritative research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, reported in Molecular Psychiatry. The researchers focused on apolipoprotein, a blood protein which regulates the breakdown of fats linked...

May 12, 2008: RECRUITMENT: NICE ALCOHOL GUIDE
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ALCOHOL USE DISORDER IN ADULTS AND YOUNGPEOPLE COMMUNITY MEMBER RECRUITMENT Closing date 16 May 2008 NICE is extending the closing date for this community member role until 5pm 16th May. Community members of this group will play a key role...

May 12, 2008: DoH POLICY & GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS
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To find Department of Health policy and guidance documents, click here.

May 12, 2008: UKESAD 2008
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5th UK/EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON ADDICTIVE DISORDERS DECLARED "THE BEST EVER" The 3-day conference attracted 500 attendees from as far apart as the US, Australia, Taiwan, Nepal, Iceland, USSR, Iceland, Ireland and mainland Europe as well as the UK. They learned...

May 8, 2008: What are today's social evils?
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ANSWER: "ALCOHOL AND DRUGS" AND "DECLINE OF FAMILY" Over a century has passed since the Joseph Rowntree Foundation identified poverty, war, slavery, intemperance, the opium trade, impurity and gambling as the "great scourges of humanity". Now it reveals the findings...

May 5, 2008: CANNABIS: THE FACTS
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Eddie Nestor invited Addiction Recovery Foundation CEO Deirdre Boyd onto his BBC Radio London show – at midnight! – Sunday [4 May] to debate the reclassification of cannabis with legalisation campaigner Steve Rolles. For listeners, these are the statistics and...

May 3, 2008: SUPER-STRONG SKUNK: UPDATE
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The super-strong 'slunk' strain of cannabis is typically 2-3 times stronger than other forms of the drug and now accounts for 75% of cannabis seized, according to the Daily Mail [ 2 May 2008]. 80,000 street warnings were given to...

May 1, 2008: UKESAD 2008
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MENU Just click here. Download ukesad_menu.pdf There are a few vegetarian meals, for those who reserved them.

May 1, 2008: UKESAD 2008
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FLOOR PLAN To see who is exhibiting, and where to find refreshments, click here. Download floor_planukesad.pdf

May 1, 2008: UKESAD 2008
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POCKET PROGRAMME Just click on pdf here. Download ukesad_pocket_programme_2008.pdf .

May 1, 2008: AT WIT’S END
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by Jeff Jay and Jerry A Boriskin Published by Hazelden and distributed by Eurospan at £10.99 (www.eurospanbookstore.com/hazelden). 256 pages. ISBN 978-159285373-1 What you need to know when a loved one is diagnosed with addiction and mental illness... These days most...

May 1, 2008: CBT FOR SMOKING CESSATION
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by Cynthia Conklin, Michele Levine, Kenneth Perkins Published by Routledge at £17.95 (www.routledgementalhealth.com). 224+ pages. ISBN (978) 0415-95463-0. The central goal of a therapist helping someone to quit smoking is to teach the smoker ways to prepare to quit, successfully...

May 1, 2008: THE SOUL OF RECOVERY
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by Christopher D Ringwald Published by Oxford University Press at £21.00 (www.oup.com/uk). 305 pages. ISBN 978-019 514768-1. On reading the author’s Preface, I was struck by the size of the task for this work. Intrigued, I scanned through the Bibliography...