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July 30, 2009: JOBS WANTED
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Experienced healthcare professional manager ... with specialist skills in the Drug and Alcohol treatment sector seeking position as Business Development / Operations / Marketing / General manager or similar in either statutory or private sector. I enjoy new challenges and...

July 24, 2009: RESPONSE TO PAUL HAYES (20.7.2009)
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Dear editor, One has to admire the ingenious manner in which Paul Hayes of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse has responded to Addiction Today and others' demands for a change in current protocols for drug treatment to become...

July 24, 2009: VIDEOS: DR MICHAEL MILLER
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Dr Michael M Miller MD, FASAM, FAPA is president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the largest medical specialty society in America of physicians devoted to addiction prevention, treatment, medical education, research, and public policy. He has served on...

July 22, 2009: DISCRIMINATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGE TO DoH AND DWP
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“The Department of Health systematically discriminates against involuntary tranquilliser addicts by refusing them medical treatment for their illness. It is an illness that the Heath Service has created, through over prescribing by doctors, by not enforcing guidelines and by poor...

July 20, 2009: WATER OFF A DUCK'S BACK, pt 2
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HELP CLIENTS TO DEAL WITH VERBAL PROVOCATION Having identified the common ‘crimes’ of provocation and potential relapse triggers, how can you help your clients to deal with them? Jon Lavelle offers cunning linguistics. Print-friendly version: Download Water off a duck's...

July 20, 2009: WATER OFF A DUCK'S BACK
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HELP CLIENTS TO DEAL WITH AWKWARD PEOPLE – AND SMILE Frustrating situations and awkward, exasperating or manipulative people can trigger relapse. So Jon Lavelle offers helpful hints and tips to sail safely through some of life’s storms. Print-friendly version: Download...

July 20, 2009: TORIES WANT NEW DRUG REHAB APPROACH
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Today's news from the Press Association "The Conservatives have called for an "abstinence-based" approach to drug rehabilitation, after uncovering figures showing that fewer than 4% of addicts undergoing treatment become drug-free each year. Figures released by the Department of Health...

July 20, 2009: GRIEVING CAN GIVE YOU LIFE!
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If we do not face up to our losses and grief, we can turn to alcohol and drugs as a mistaken way out. To aid recovery, we give a 10-point system for healing from grief, created by Fr Jack McGinnis....

July 20, 2009: GRIEF PAVES WAY TO FREEDOM
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We must face up to our grief in order to move forward and give up our addictions. Father Jack McGinnis illustrates the importance of grieving, starting with his own intense experience of his alcoholic father’s death. This article was published...

July 17, 2009: DoH REVIEWS POLICY ON ADDICTION TO LEGAL DRUGS
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Parliamentary Question - 16 July 2009 Hansard, Column 673W Tranquillisers Jim Dobbin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will assess the efficacy of his policy on the prescription of tranquillisers in limiting the number of medicines...

July 3, 2009: A PHONEY WAR ON DRUGS – AND THE MYTH OF ADDICTION TREATMENT PROVISION
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Has pouring £300million a year into methadone helped – or quicksanded the UK into the worst drug problem in Europe? Deirdre Boyd reacts to rigorous research from the Centre for Policy Studies. Print-friendly version: Download Addiction Today 119-Myth of treatment...

July 3, 2009: THE PHONEY WAR ON DRUGS
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Despite this government spending £10billion – £1.5billion a year – on its drugs policy, the numbers emerging from government treatment programmes are the same as if there had been no treatment at all, revealed Kathy Gyngell in a recent document...