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May 2009

May 27, 2009: THE NTA, PAUL HAYES AND DRUG DEATHS
Comments: 0 | Categories: Letters , Research
LETTERS PAGE, Addiction Today issue 117 In April 2009, Paul Hayes, CEO of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, wrote two heavily-critical letters to Addiction Today editor Deirdre Boyd, one “for publication” and one “not for publication”. The reason?...

May 25, 2009: SERBIAN TORTURE UNIT FOR ADDICTS CLOSES
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A happy ending to our story on brutality meted to addicts trying to recover at Crna Reka "treatment" centre for drug abusers: Reuters reports that the Serbian Orthodox Church ordered its closure after a video showed a patient being beaten...

May 23, 2009: STOP THIS TORTURE NOW
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OUTRAGE AT SERBIAN 'TREATMENT' OF PATIENTS WITH ADDICTIVE DISORDERS Officials in Serbia are investigating a 'rehabilitation centre' affiliated to the Orthodox Church where drug addicts have been filmed being beaten. Vreme magazine shows a man appearing to assault a patient...

May 18, 2009: RECOVERY MOVEMENT HAS ARRIVED!
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As 500 people attended the UK/European Symposium on Addictive Disorders, to participate in Effective approaches to intervention, treatment and recovery, it was clear not that a grassroots recovery movement has started - but that it has arrived. And within 36...

May 18, 2009: THE PHONEY WAR ON DRUGS
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FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT DRUG POLICY IS EXPOSED The government has repeatedly declared that it is fighting a "war on drugs". But Kathy Gyngell shows that this has been a facade, in The Phoney War on Drugs, published today by the...

May 12, 2009: INVOLUNTARY TRANQUILLISER ADDICTION
Comments: 3 | Categories: Policies, legislation
An All-Party Parliamentary Group recently drew the nation’s attention to the damage caused by prescription and over-the-counter drugs – harms to a greater volume of people than from all illicit drugs. Michael Behan reports a worsening situation. Printer-friendly version here:...