« August 2009 | Main | October 2009 »

September 2009

September 29, 2009: INJECTING ROOM FAILS
Comments: 5 | Categories: News , Policies, legislation
A recent analysis of official reports on the Sydney Kings Cross injecting room confirmed that unavailability of heroin is of far greater significance in preventing heroin deaths than the availability of injecting rooms. Less than 9,800 drug users were registered...

September 29, 2009: THE RECOVERY ACADEMY:
Comments: 3 | Categories: News , Research
RECOVERY AS THE ART OF LIFE ITSELF This summer, Addiction Today participated in the development of a 'recovery forum' blueprint for exchanging ideas and evidence about addiction recovery. Stephen Bamber and David Best were the architects – they build on...

September 29, 2009: WELCOME
Comments: 0 |
Welcome to the charity's 'online newspaper'. Capture the groundswell of grassroots recovery caught on camera at the UK/European symposium on Addictive Disorders - and join in September's recovery rally. Deirdre Boyd, editor View sample pages from Addiction Today journal -...

September 29, 2009: FIRST UK RECOVERY MARCH HAS HAPPENED
Comments: 1 | Categories: News
Almost 1,000 people lined the streets of Liverpool to celebrate recovery in public for the first time in the UK. "This is no longer about the problems of addiction. It is about the solutions - and these people prove that."...

September 26, 2009: WHEN IS RESEARCH NOT RESEARCH?
Comments: 5 | Categories: News , Policies, legislation
THE RIOTT HEROIN TRIALS (NB: RIOTT randomised injectable opiate trials is not connected with RIOT, the UK's only abstinent service user group) “Clamour grows for heroin on the NHS” shouted the Independent last week. This was news to me, as...

September 20, 2009: OPEN LETTER TO JACK STRAW ON HEROIN
Comments: 5 | Categories: News , Policies, legislation
To Paddy Tipping MP, Vernon Coaker MP: I was taken completely aback this morning when I read in the Times that Jack Straw wants to give heroin addicts heroin, on the NHS. How about giving alcoholics who cannot stop drinking...