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August 2010

August 27, 2010: NO WAY TO DISPENSE PUBLIC MONEY
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by Kathy Gyngell Chair - Prisons and Addictions Forum Centre for Policy Studies Read the complete blog here. Summary below. The NTA’s poor and unfair practices mean it cannot be trusted. This £19million+ a year public-health authority should be wound...

August 26, 2010: TIMETABLES FOR NEW GOVERNMENT POLICIES
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HOME OFFICE The HO released its 2010 Drug strategy consultation paper towards the end of August and readers have until end-September to respond. This is perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get real help for addicts to recover. Feel free to...

August 24, 2010: DRUG DEATHS RISE AGAIN
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HEROIN IS BIGGEST KILLER - FOLLOWED BY METHADONE Drug-related deaths continue to increase, remaining higher than 2001 when the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse was founded to reduce them. Click here for related article on previous years' figures. UK...

August 23, 2010: FROM HOPELESSNESS TO ACTION: MOVING ADDICTS INTO RECOVERY
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NB: DEADLINE TO GIVE YOUR VIEWS TO HOME OFFICE DRUGS CONSULTATION IS 30 SEPTEMBER - THE EASY WAY IS TO CUT-AND-PASTE OUR RESPONSE HERE, ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND EMAIL BACKGROUND... We need ‘saltation’ – a successful leap to the major...

August 17, 2010: WE HAVE ALREADY DECRIMINALISED - THAT'S THE PROBLEM
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by Kathy Gyngell Chair - Centre for Policy Studies' Prisons and Addictions forum It is hard to understand why Sir Ian Gilmore has chosen, right at the end of his worthy career, to ‘come out’ on behalf of the decriminalisation...

August 17, 2010: INAUGURAL INTERVENTIONIST TRAINING for AIS / BRI-1
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Training dates: x xxxx15,16,17 October 2010 Location: xxxxxx xxx The Sloane Club, Chelsea, London Subsidised rate: x xxx £300 for the three days' training Trainers: xxxxx xxxx Southworth Associates and Intervention 911 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Addiction Recovery Foundation Print-friendly version:...

August 10, 2010: CAN THESE LEOPARDS CHANGE THEIR SPOTS?
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RESPONSE TO THE NTA BUSINESS PLAN 2010/2011 by Deirdre Boyd, CEO of the Addiction Recovery Foundation Kathy Gyngell, chair of the Centre for Policy Studies' Addictions working group With the threat of abolition hanging over its head, the National Treatment...

August 8, 2010: A GLOSSARY FOR OUR TIMES
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REWRITING THE DICTIONARY Tickboxers could eradicate war, disease, poverty and addiction in a mere few strokes of the pen, to meet targets – by rewriting the dictionary. Deirdre Boyd offers a glossary to recent claims. Preview from the September 2010...

August 6, 2010: MARIJUANA LEGALISATION'S UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
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Next November, Californians will ballot on allowing people 21 years and older to possess, cultivate and transport cannabis for personal use, as well as enable its commercial production and sale. Professor Keith Humphreys of Stanford University School of Medicine's psychiatry...

August 1, 2010: STAGES OF CHANGE
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A BLUEPRINT TO BUILD STRONG FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE Professor Carlo DiClemente’s Stages of Change model is feted worldwide for enhancing the understanding and skills which make a substance-abuse treatment provider effective. It helps clinicians develop thoughtful, individually tailored, scientifically grounded...