tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1502224 2009-10-29T09:16:41+00:00 Reclaiming Lives. For Life. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a689a62a970c 2009-10-29T09:16:41+00:00 2009-10-29T10:34:01+00:00

5pm on 10 November 2009 is the consultation deadline for you to influence rationing body Nice’s guidance on alcohol, Alcohol-use disorders: preventing the development of hazardous and harmful drinking. 5pm on 12 November 2009 is the consultation deadline for Alcohol...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/3tbf2spwb2Q" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/10/nice-alcohol-guides-deadlines.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a62c1ed3970b 2009-10-28T20:42:48+00:00 2009-10-28T20:43:31+00:00

...ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW Good structured interventions have a 92% success in getting addicts into treatment – and of helping family members even when this does not ensue. Jeff Van Vonderen explains in detail. “Intervention” has caught the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/kCkaHQim2As" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/10/structured-interventions.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a6802824970c 2009-10-28T15:46:27+00:00 2009-10-28T15:50:22+00:00

THE NTA LANCET PRESS RELEASE An NTA article printed by medical journal Lancet led national media andinternational academic websites to the perception that this body of bureaucracy is successfully treating addiction/dependency. Deirdre Boyd reveals the truth behind the headlines. “Drug...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/ZBjfWQeOttY" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/10/the-dodgy-dossier-of-non-treatment-2-nta-lancet.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a67ffd2f970c 2009-10-28T15:42:09+00:00 2009-10-29T09:23:10+00:00

ANNUAL REPORT and GUARDIAN MEDIA BLITZ The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse spent your hard-earned taxes and mine on paying for positive PR in the Guardian this week, sponsoring a special supplement. "Commissioning editor Terry Kirby" wrote that the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/HCvOTCPuVnE" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/10/the-dodgy-dossier-of-nontreatment-1.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a62a6eba970c 2009-10-11T11:02:00+01:00 2009-10-11T18:24:58+01:00

Drug-free relief from anxiety today Stress-related disorders are the epidemic of our time. Alphamusic is reported to be very effective and is highly recommended by professionals. No other composer has set out with the same intent that drives John Levine....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/nzQif0aIw0I" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/10/the-alphamusic-of-john-levine.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a61e65e1970c 2009-10-07T07:27:00+01:00 2009-10-10T11:44:18+01:00

In the week of the Labour Party Conference, Jack Straw publicly called for heroin on the NHS – based on publicity for a project called Riott which had not been independently evaluated nor peer reviewed (click here for critique). The...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/MiJ5kJ_iyUA" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/10/dodgy-dossiers-of-addiction-nontreatment.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a5a7e04f970b 2009-09-29T10:40:23+01:00 2009-09-29T10:40:23+01:00

A recent analysis of official reports on the Sydney Kings Cross injecting room confirmed that unavailability of heroin is of far greater significance in preventing heroin deaths than the availability of injecting rooms. Less than 9,800 drug users were registered...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/4AbBRvdjlWE" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/09/-injecting-room-fails.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a5fe4c68970c 2009-09-29T09:34:02+01:00 2009-09-29T09:44:49+01:00

RECOVERY AS THE ART OF LIFE ITSELF This summer, Addiction Today participated in the development of a 'recovery forum' blueprint for exchanging ideas and evidence about addiction recovery. Stephen Bamber and David Best were the architects – they build on...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/NZ3ISkxaxbw" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/09/the-recovery-academy.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a5a79a00970b 2009-09-29T08:34:45+01:00 2009-09-29T08:34:45+01:00

Welcome to the charity's 'online newspaper'. Capture the groundswell of grassroots recovery caught on camera at the UK/European symposium on Addictive Disorders - and join in September's recovery rally. Deirdre Boyd, editor View sample pages from Addiction Today journal -...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/6hQLV1vCKaM" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/09/welcome.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a5a79845970b 2009-09-29T08:28:21+01:00 2009-09-29T13:09:20+01:00

Almost 1,000 people lined the streets of Liverpool to celebrate recovery in public for the first time in the UK. "This is no longer about the problems of addiction. It is about the solutions - and these people prove that."...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/2gy9KG4xjzg" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/09/first-uk-recovery-march-has-happened.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a5f32e19970c 2009-09-26T14:25:18+01:00 2009-09-26T16:09:58+01:00

THE RIOTT HEROIN TRIALS (NB: RIOTT randomised injectable opiate trials is not connected with RIOT, the UK's only abstinent service user group) “Clamour grows for heroin on the NHS” shouted the Independent last week. This was news to me, as...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/FeOOAYorfys" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/09/riott-heroin-research-not-research.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a5e3822b970c 2009-09-20T16:20:00+01:00 2009-09-22T17:10:28+01:00

To Paddy Tipping MP, Vernon Coaker MP: I was taken completely aback this morning when I read in the Times that Jack Straw wants to give heroin addicts heroin, on the NHS. How about giving alcoholics who cannot stop drinking...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/ZXni0QxJtaA" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/09/open-letter-jack-straw-heroin.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a537c74f970b 2009-08-31T17:02:00+01:00 2009-08-31T17:09:31+01:00

WORKING WITH THE LGBT COMMUNITY Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender services are a rarity, reports Sarah Graham. At the same time, where gay clubs go, straight ones usually follow – and they are succumbing to crystal meth. Back in 1992 on an OutRage! demo...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/NcscB5y5Qrw" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/08/death-by-diversity.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a537b162970b 2009-08-31T16:31:47+01:00 2009-08-31T16:34:51+01:00

MAKE THE LAW WORK FOR YOU Are the much-lamented addiction-treatment structures in the NHS lawful? UK Advocates has sought legal advice on improving treatment and access to it– and is about to apply for a judicial review. Robert Beckett makes...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/1d_1LjgVT5U" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/08/legislating-for-addiction-recovery.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a5852afc970c 2009-08-29T11:37:01+01:00 2009-08-29T11:37:01+01:00

ADDICTION TODAY MARCH 2009 ARTICLE DEMONSTRABLY TRUE, AS OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS & ST GEORGE’S UNIVERSITY SHOW DRUG DEATHS AT 8-YEAR HIGH A few months ago, senior management at the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse wrote scathing letters reprimanding...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/RQH_qDoyPsc" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/08/official-figures-vindicate-addiction-today.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a524836e970b 2009-08-26T15:07:00+01:00 2009-08-27T12:25:31+01:00

HEROIN, MORPHINE AND METHADONE ARE THE MOST-CITED SUBSTANCES Deaths relating to drug poisoning – both legal and illegal drugs – have risen to their highest level since 2001, the year the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse was founded, reveal...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/j5bzonMa-h0" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/08/drug-poisoning-deaths-at-8year-high.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a5519893970c 2009-08-16T11:24:52+01:00 2009-09-28T08:40:20+01:00

"Celebrating our right to be happy joyous and free!" FIRST-EVER UK RECOVERY MARCH HAPPENED ON SATURDAY! What: Rally Date: 26 September at 6pm Host: Sharp Liverpool and Spider Project Start Where: Liverpool To see more details, click Facebook here. Scroll...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/YsuAFMXirGE" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/08/1st-uk-recovery-march.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a4c58f8b970b 2009-08-04T15:33:09+01:00 2009-08-04T15:46:40+01:00

Simply write your views in the Comment box supplied.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/jd3llIQdyFk" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/08/start-your-own-debate.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a51cb284970c 2009-08-04T15:01:46+01:00 2009-08-04T15:12:49+01:00

" Law enforcement has been undermined by mixed and confusing signals. The latest such muddle surfaced last week in a report by a body styling itself the UK Drug Policy Commission. This said that, since the UK drug market can...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/1--3TCLOIjY" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/08/mixed-messages-on-drink-and-drugs-are-the-road-to-social-ruin.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a51ca4f3970c 2009-08-04T14:41:23+01:00 2009-08-04T14:41:23+01:00

by 'D' in recovery (name and address supplied) " I remember reading Theodore Dalrymple's piece when I was just in to my own recovery - and it helped change my views on legalisation, particularly where he talks about the 'enslavement'...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/b6g5wyihrDA" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/08/legalisation-will-enslave-people.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330120a51c9893970c 2009-08-04T14:22:35+01:00 2009-08-04T14:26:25+01:00

"Last week brought a new twist to the myth that law enforcement - hyperbolically designated as 'prohibition' by the pro drugs lobby - rather than drug use itself is the root of the country's drug problem," writes Kathy Gyngell in...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/8XVR4h6N6Qk" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/08/the-ukdpc-smart-enforcement-proposals-amount-to-legalisation-by-the-back-door.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330115724a0a12970b 2009-07-30T16:54:19+01:00 2009-07-30T16:54:19+01:00

Experienced healthcare professional manager ... with specialist skills in the Drug and Alcohol treatment sector seeking position as Business Development / Operations / Marketing / General manager or similar in either statutory or private sector. I enjoy new challenges and...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/QbmZSR46FWA" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/07/jobs-wanted.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330115722e6360970b 2009-07-24T09:58:48+01:00 2009-07-24T10:11:17+01:00

Dear editor, One has to admire the ingenious manner in which Paul Hayes of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse has responded to Addiction Today and others' demands for a change in current protocols for drug treatment to become...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/RXijTf7sUMw" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/07/response-to-paul-hayes.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330115713a19d3970c 2009-07-24T00:18:00+01:00 2009-07-24T12:34:27+01:00

Dr Michael M Miller MD, FASAM, FAPA is president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the largest medical specialty society in America of physicians devoted to addiction prevention, treatment, medical education, research, and public policy. He has served on...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/OWQP5RUGA5Y" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/07/videos-dr-michael-miller.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330115712e6b78970c 2009-07-22T12:17:33+01:00 2009-07-22T12:44:27+01:00

“The Department of Health systematically discriminates against involuntary tranquilliser addicts by refusing them medical treatment for their illness. It is an illness that the Heath Service has created, through over prescribing by doctors, by not enforcing guidelines and by poor...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/JBTfIofZYTw" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/07/discrimination-and-human-rights-challenge-to-doh-and-dwp.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330115721b3c3e970b 2009-07-20T14:14:34+01:00 2009-07-20T14:16:51+01:00

HELP CLIENTS TO DEAL WITH VERBAL PROVOCATION Having identified the common ‘crimes’ of provocation and potential relapse triggers, how can you help your clients to deal with them? Jon Lavelle offers cunning linguistics. Print-friendly version: Download Water off a duck's...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/6X9JOSW_GPE" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/07/water-off-a-ducks-back-pt-2.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c5637883301157126b644970c 2009-07-20T13:53:55+01:00 2009-07-20T14:17:58+01:00

HELP CLIENTS TO DEAL WITH AWKWARD PEOPLE – AND SMILE Frustrating situations and awkward, exasperating or manipulative people can trigger relapse. So Jon Lavelle offers helpful hints and tips to sail safely through some of life’s storms. Print-friendly version: Download...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/lbf9A2RVfUw" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/07/water-off-a-ducks-back.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330115721b1dda970b 2009-07-20T13:30:22+01:00 2009-07-20T13:30:22+01:00

Today's news from the Press Association "The Conservatives have called for an "abstinence-based" approach to drug rehabilitation, after uncovering figures showing that fewer than 4% of addicts undergoing treatment become drug-free each year. Figures released by the Department of Health...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/ZM4o6C34PIo" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/07/tories-want-new-drug-rehab-approach.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c563788330115721afc43970b 2009-07-20T12:27:09+01:00 2009-07-20T12:51:35+01:00

If we do not face up to our losses and grief, we can turn to alcohol and drugs as a mistaken way out. To aid recovery, we give a 10-point system for healing from grief, created by Fr Jack McGinnis....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/5YNBUq1Sc9M" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/07/grieving-relapse-prevention.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f8c56378833011571267395970c 2009-07-20T11:35:22+01:00 2009-07-20T12:49:14+01:00

We must face up to our grief in order to move forward and give up our addictions. Father Jack McGinnis illustrates the importance of grieving, starting with his own intense experience of his alcoholic father’s death. This article was published...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AddictionToday/~4/SNtrP240hF4" height="1" width="1"/>

Deirdre Boyd http://www.addictiontoday.org/addictiontoday/2009/07/grief-freedom-from-addiction.html