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March 2011

March 17, 2011: UK'S TREATMENT WAR ON DRUGS:
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A LESSON IN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AND PERVERSE OUTCOMES Kathy Gyngell says policy makers can no longer avoid the question of whether universal access to low-contact harm-reduction services has generated more harms than it has solved, in an article published in...

March 14, 2011: DRUG TREATMENT STATISTICS: ONLY 1.2% OF ADDICTS GET REHAB
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The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse today issued a statement on drug treatment statistics claiming that Addiction Today, published by the Addiction Recovery Foundation charity, was inaccurate in one sentence of its four-page cover story. The sad fact is...

March 14, 2011: FROM NOMS TO ARF
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THANK YOU, VODAFONE by Laura Graham A cold grey Monday morning in London, a 7 o'clock alarm... Yay, I'm off to work and I can't wait! Thanks to Vodafone World of Difference funding, I have a dream job at my...

March 4, 2011: LOTS OF HAPPY ENDINGS
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Why do people not listen to stories of success when it comes to addiction, ask Dr David Best, Safeena Ghufran, Rajashree Ray and Ed Day. "Success can be measured. Our duty as researchers is to provide a voice for it."...

March 4, 2011: RESEARCH SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISORDERED EATING
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High-fashion models are an unhealthy 23% thinner than the average woman – while research shows girls as young as five on diets to achieve the same image. On top of this, people with eating disorders are at higher risk for...

March 1, 2011: THE REAL REHAB REVOLUTION
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“Drug free” is formally defined in government statistics as being on drugs, rehabs again face closure, redundancies are a reality, and the better NHS drug/alcohol services are being shut down. Patients, their families and society all lose. Rehabs have united...

March 1, 2011: THE ORIGINS AND FUTURE OF UK RECOVERY MOVEMENT
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“If I were bold enough to begin to write a history of the recovery movement in the UK (assuming there is such a thing) what would be on the pages? Understanding the genesis, evolution and development of the recovery movement...