DS Daily - 11th August 2010 |
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The Potential of Recovery Capital
This paper is the first in a series that will shape our understanding of the advancing ‘Recovery Movement’ and will inform the RSA Recovery Capital Project in Peterborough. In this first paper, Dr David Best and Dr Alexandre Laudet seek to define recovery capital to capture its flavour and principles, and to look at the intrinsically social forces that are at play in shaping change and in growing the communities of recovery - download [RSA, UK]
Patterns of Substance Use & Support Needs of Residents in Young People’s Hostels & Foyer Accommodation in Liverpool
Final Report June 2010 [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
Our Drugs War
Documentary series examining the global story of drugs, from Afghanistan's poppy fields to the streets of New York and the estates of Edinburgh [Channel 4, UK]
Phil Mitchell's crack cocaine binge
Around 230 viewers slammed the BBC over the episode, which ended with Phil demanding more drugs. Others rang to praise what they saw as a realistic storyline. Martin Barnes, of DrugScope, said he hoped the storyline would encourage addicts to get help. He added: "A portrayal which sensitively reflects the impact drug use has on Phil, his family and friends could help people understand the issues many families go through." [The Sun, UK]
Crack cocaine on EastEnders this week
DrugScope staff assisted on set during filming of this storyline [Digital Spy, UK]
Finland used by drug smugglers as gateway to Russia
Rising standards of living boost demand for Western drugs [Helsingin Sanomat, Finland]
Legalizing drugs the only answer
We either do what Mao did — allow our governments to be simply totalitarian on this issue and implement a scorched earth policy — or we legalize opium and other drugs to break the back of the underworld trade. We then deal with addiction by educational and medical means. It is the present and almost universal in-between that is so unsatisfactory and so dangerous [Toronto Star, Canada]
AA cure for addicts lacks good evidence
A recent review by the Cochrane Library, a healthcare research group, of studies on alcohol treatment conducted between 1966 and 2005, states its results plainly: ''No experimental studies unequivocally demonstrated the effectiveness of AA or TSF [12-step facilitation] approaches for reducing alcohol dependence or problems.'' [The Age, Australia]
Experts want alcohol prices to rise
Professor Paul Haber, medical director of Drug Health Services for the Sydney South-West Area Health Service, said introducing a volumetric tax would help to reduce the broadscale but overlooked impact of alcohol abuse on Australian communities [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
Rehab as Punishment
Why Cambodians, Chinese, and Vietnamese shun treatment - if they can [Addiction Inbox, USA]