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January 2010

January 23, 2010: TRANSPORT FOR LONDON: OPEN LETTER TO LONDON DRUG ACTION TEAMS
Comments: 4 | Categories: News
Transport for London’s Drug & Alcohol Assessment & Treatment Service enjoyed a success rate exceeding all properly researched treatment outcomes, can pay up to 50% of costs, offers six months’ aftercare and monitors clients for five years – but now...

January 20, 2010: Recovery voices must be heard
Comments: 2 | Categories: News , Policies, legislation
"Drug users' voices must be heard in the battle against addiction," writes Mark Johnson in the Guardian newspaper today. "I was humbled by the many people who contacted me about my last column, in which I labelled the way our...

January 7, 2010: CLOSURE OF ALCOHOL TREATMENT PROMPTS JUDICIAL REVIEW
Comments: 1 | Categories: Current Affairs , News
PATIENT CHOICE IS DENIED The closure of an abstinence-based alcohol treatment course has triggered a threat of judicial review by activists who fear the health service is cutting back on funding for the independent sector within the NHS, reports Owen...

January 6, 2010: MYTHBUSTERS: SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION IN THE ACMD AND THE MEDIA
Comments: 13 | Categories: Cannabis comment , Current Affairs , Debate , Policies, legislation , Prevention
When Professor David Nutt was sacked by the Home Secretary for arguing against government policy on drug classification, he stated that his proposals were based on scientific evidence. Professor Andy Parrott goes mythbusting. It has been highly publicised across the...

January 5, 2010: ACCOUNTABILITY CAN BREAK THE CYCLE OF CRIME – AND MORE
Comments: 0 | Categories: Therapeutic Techniques
Stephen Valle’s accountability model yields dividends in clinical- and cost-effectiveness. It can cut re-offending rates by an extra 10-40%, and has been applied to domestic violence programmes, courts, community and in-prison therapeutic communities. He gives us the inside story. Print-friendly...