Therapeutic Techniques

May 3, 2012: AIS: WORKING TOWARDS A ‘GOLD STANDARD’ FOR FAMILY INTERVENTIONS
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Families of people being destroyed by addiction can call on specialist ‘interventionists’ to persuade the addict into rehab – now some of the world’s best are sharing their expertise and ethics, and encouraging more to join them. Rebecca Flood describes...

April 27, 2012: REHABILITATING DRUG POLICY: CIVITAS REPORT
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WHAT CAN WE DO BETTER TO REDUCE OFFENDING BY DRUG ADDICTS? The Civitas think tank has published its report on Rehabilitating Drug Policy. It includes sections on challenges and opportunities, methods and approaches. The interventions section covers pharmacological interventions, detox,...

April 25, 2012: HOW CAN MUSIC ACTIVELY ASSIST IN TREATING ADDICTION AND TRAUMA?
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John Levine links music to brain waves – and therapist Richard Scanlan reports how this has helped his patients’ process of recovery. Print-friendly version, from May Addiction Today journal: Download AddictionToday136 - Alphamusic, therapy "While at the UKESAD conference last...

April 25, 2012: HOW TRAUMA INFORMS MEN’S IDENTITY, ADDICTION, RECOVERY
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“Men experience, express the symptoms of, and heal from trauma differently than women – we must help not only the addictive behaviour on the surface but also the untold pain beneath,” urges Dan Griffin. Print-friendly version, from May Addiction Today...

April 23, 2012: EMPIRICAL AWAKENING:
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THE NEW SCIENCE ON MUTUAL HELP – AND COST CONTROL Rigorous studies by the scientific community on the clinical and cost benefits of mutual-help groups – plus testing professional paths to encourage their use – mark 12-step groups moving from...

March 6, 2012: DEMYSTIFYING THE CURATIVE FACTOR OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY IN REHAB
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Group therapy can be more more effective than one-to-one counselling – but how does it work? And what factors can help it to be more effective? Divine Charura offers top tips, from size of groups to grieving their natural endings....

March 6, 2012: STUCK IN A TRAUMA CYCLE: KNOW YOU ARE THERE – AND GET OUT
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A disproportionately high number of people recovering from addiction have experienced childhood trauma – and must be helped to overcome the biologically-automatic response of “fight, flight or freeze” in order to develop mature recovery. Benjamin Fry explains from personal and...

January 16, 2012: PREVENTION MUST BE PUT INTO CONTEXT
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A common definition of prevention is “educating youth to abstain” – but this is doubly erroneous, explains Peter Stoker. First, all age groups can benefit. Second, education is only part of a process which also encompasses knowledge, attitudes and behaviour....

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY May 2011 CONTENTS / AGENDA 1 Introduction: What residential rehabs offer 2 Evidence base for outcomes 3 Costs: cost of rehab, cost of patients prior to/ not going to rehab, added value...

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING: Introduction
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY Click Residential Rehab Briefing for Contents list of all 6 sections. Or Download Residential Rehab Core Briefing May 2011 1. INTRODUCTION: WHAT REHABS OFFER. Residential rehab’ (rehabilitation) – offering addicts a 4-52...

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING: Evidence base
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY Click Residential Rehab Briefing for Contents list of all 6 sections. Or Download Residential Rehab Core Briefing May 2011 2. EVIDENCE BASE. There is a paucity of research about residential rehab in...

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING: Costs
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY Click Residential Rehab Briefing for Contents list of all 6 sections. Or Download Residential Rehab Core Briefing May 2011 and Download Cross Departmental Financial Benefits Full-Recovery 3. COSTS Cost of rehab, cost...

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING: Myths vs facts
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY Click Residential Rehab Briefing for Contents list of all 6 sections. Or Download Residential Rehab Core Briefing May 2011 4. POPULAR MYTHS ABOUT REHABS VS FACTS “Residential rehab doesn’t work”; “There’s no...

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING: Barriers to access
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY Click Residential Rehab Briefing for Contents list of all 6 sections. Or Download Residential Rehab Core Briefing May 2011 5. BARRIERS TO ACCESSING RESIDENTIAL REHAB “It is ideological/extremist to recommend rehab/abstinence for...

May 11, 2011: BIONIC BRAINS: WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO REBUILD YOU
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Therapist Sarah Graham offered up her brain for a battery of tests – and was shocked to find that her memory systems were damaged not so much by years of using cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis and LSD but by her teenage...

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...

January 24, 2011: "WHAT ARE YOUR SUCCESS RATES?"
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THE BROADWAY INVENTORY HAS ANSWERS Treatment organisations are often asked about their success rates – but what is success? Peter Smith and Dr Jennifer Parker trialled a tool which measures the development of characteristics playing a significant role in the...

January 8, 2011: STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES FOR SUBSTANCE-USE DISORDER PATIENTS
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As the government searches for models of incentivising specific outcomes in addiction treatment. Deirdre Boyd picks the brains of Keith Humphreys and Tom McLellan on research to inform policy, as well as advice on “payment by results”. Print-friendly version: Download...

October 30, 2010: SPEED YOUR FAMILY INTO RECOVERY
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Ethical, accredited interventionists can accelerate addicts into treatment –maverick ones can harm the whole family. So leading players have signed up to become board-registered interventionists with an agreed Code of Ethics. Victoria Sternhold reports on the birth of AIS International....

September 12, 2010: RECOVERY: HELPS, HINDRANCES AND THE WAY AHEAD
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Alexandre Laudet continues her empirical look at recovery, focusing on building ‘recovery capital’, tearing down barriers – and implications for treatment and policy. Print-friendly version: Download AT126 Road to recovery Related article on finding recovery. Treatment services tend to be...

September 12, 2010: THE ROAD TO RECOVERY: WHERE ARE WE GOING AND HOW DO WE GET THERE?
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What is recovery? Alexandre Laudet gives the best summary we found, identifying research and offering empirically-driven conclusions and thus future directions for policy, service development and research – all could be within our reach. Print-friendly version: Download AT126 Road to...

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 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...

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.

June 29, 2010: PATIENT PLACEMENT CRITERIA:
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SELECTING APPROPRIATE TREATMENT About 50 million lives are in the hands of companies across the globe which state that they use ASAM ‘patient placement criteria’ to authorise addiction treatment. What are these criteria? And how can they help give happier...

June 11, 2010: "ADDICTIONS AND RECOVERY"
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SELF HELP FOR ADDICTS, FAMILIES, FRIENDS The Addiction Recovery Foundation has updated and republished this book by its CEO Deirdre Boyd, and kept it at a low price of $9.99, to help as many people as possible to recover from...

April 29, 2010: UKESAD 2010: best-practice therapies
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The 60 worldclass presenters for over 40 presentations at the 7th UK/European Symposium on Addictive Disorders will exchange international expertise to help your clients recover from addiction/dependency. Topics include: Increase family access to treatment Working through the continuum of care...

April 9, 2010: FACE IT & FIX IT
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Article by Ken Seely to follow by end-April.

April 9, 2010: HOW TO CHANGE SOMEONE YOU LOVE
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Article by Brad Lamm to be published end-April 2010.