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October 2009

October 29, 2009: COMMENT ON ‘NICE’ ALCOHOL GUIDES BEFORE DEADLINES
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5pm on 10 November 2009 is the consultation deadline for you to influence rationing body Nice’s guidance on alcohol, Alcohol-use disorders: preventing the development of hazardous and harmful drinking. 5pm on 12 November 2009 is the consultation deadline for Alcohol...

October 28, 2009: STRUCTURED INTERVENTIONS
Comments: 2 | Categories: Therapeutic Techniques
...ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW Good structured interventions have a 92% success in getting addicts into treatment – and of helping family members even when this does not ensue. Jeff Van Vonderen explains in detail. “Intervention” has caught the...

October 28, 2009: THE DODGY DOSSIER OF NON-TREATMENT: 2
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THE NTA LANCET PRESS RELEASE An NTA article printed by medical journal Lancet led national media andinternational academic websites to the perception that this body of bureaucracy is successfully treating addiction/dependency. Deirdre Boyd reveals the truth behind the headlines. “Drug...

October 28, 2009: THE DODGY DOSSIER OF NON-TREATMENT: 1
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ANNUAL REPORT and GUARDIAN MEDIA BLITZ The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse spent your hard-earned taxes and mine on paying for positive PR in the Guardian this week, sponsoring a special supplement. "Commissioning editor Terry Kirby" wrote that the...

October 11, 2009: The Alphamusic of John Levine
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Drug-free relief from anxiety today Stress-related disorders are the epidemic of our time. Alphamusic is reported to be very effective and is highly recommended by professionals. No other composer has set out with the same intent that drives John Levine....

October 7, 2009: DODGY DOSSIERS OF ADDICTION NON-TREATMENT
Comments: 3 | Categories: Policies, legislation , Research
In the week of the Labour Party Conference, Jack Straw publicly called for heroin on the NHS – based on publicity for a project called Riott which had not been independently evaluated nor peer reviewed (click here for critique). The...