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July 2010

July 30, 2010: BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONIST
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Training dates: 15,16,17 Ocober 2010 Location: central London Subsidised rate: £300 for the three days' training Trainers: Southworth Associates and Intervention 911 with the Addiction Recovery Foundation (charity no 328133), organiser of UKESAD and publisher of Addiction Today journal REHABS:...

July 30, 2010: NUTRITION: REPAIR YOUR BODY IN RECOVERY
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This article from Addiction Today journal will be posted on this webpage by the end of July 2010.

July 27, 2010: OPEN LETTER TO PROFESSOR STEVEN FIELD
Comments: 9 | Categories: News , Policies, legislation
CHAIR OF COUNCIL - ROYAL COLLEGE OF GPs 14 Princes Gate Hyde Park London SW7 1PU Dear Professor Field, GP OVERPRESCRIBING OF ADDICTIVE DRUGS I am w riting to you regarding serious concerns I and many others have about the...

July 26, 2010: HEALTH SECRETARY: NTA TO BE ABOLISHED
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Health secretary Andrew Lansley announced today that bureaucracy will be cut as health "arm's length bodies" are reduced from 18 to 8-10, saving over £180m by 2014/15 - and one of the bodies to be abolished is the National Treatment...

July 10, 2010: ABOLISH NTA TO CUT DRUG ADDICTION
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"Methadone prescriptions for heroin addicts would be cut and the National Treatment Agency that runs the programme scrapped under plans from the Tories favourite think-tank," reports Rosemary Bennett, social affairs correspondent of The Times newspaper. "The Centre for Social Justice,...

July 9, 2010: DRUGS FIGURES PAINT INCORRECT PICTURE OF MISUSE
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MULTIPLE DRUG USE NOW THE NORM, HEROIN SHUNNED BY YOUNG Government drug policy is too centred on heroin abuse, fails to take account of the realities of current usage trends and needs to focus on individual user behaviour if it...

July 3, 2010: BOOKKEEPER/ACCOUNTANT WANTED
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TO WORK AT THE ADDICTION RECOVERY FOUNDATION, PUBLISHER OF ADDICTION TODAY charity no 328133 Details: Download Job specification-ARF Bookkeeper Bookkeeper/accountant wanted to work 1-2 days/week Location: London SW1 £32,000 pro rata inc London weighting Must be proficient in QuickBooks, have...

July 1, 2010: PCT FACES HIGH COURT CHALLENGE
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AFTER AXING ALCOHOL REHAB FUNDING A campaign group dedicated to securing effective abstinence treatment for the UK’s 1.1m alcohol dependents today launched a High Court challenge against a Primary Health Care Trust after it axed all funding for places at...