Back in the day, residential rehabs were pioneers in UK treatment provision and practice. However despite the recovery agenda, commissioning practice and the apparent failure of some rehabs to evolve mean further tough times ahead. Rehab UK: full house or bleak house (PDF)
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Druglink article 2011 – The great heroin crash by Peter Simonson and Max Daly
A snapshot Druglink survey carried out among frontline drug services, senior DAT staff, police and service users in 18 towns and cities across the UK has found the heroin drought is widespread, ongoing and the most severe of its kind on record. Five month drought the longest…
Druglink article 2011 – Housing crisis by Bill Puddicombe
Leaving drug treatment to begin a new life is a make or break period for many people trying to move away from addiction. But plans by some town halls to cut funding for Supporting People looks set to make this transition even harder.…
Druglink article 2003 – Tough love, American style by Peter McDermott
Peter Mason says the time is ripe for new thinking on workforce issues. Tough love, American style (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – Building for the future: creating a dynamic workforce by Peter Mason
Concern about capacity building within drug services mirror those across the whole NHS. But, argues, Peter Mason, the reality of recruitment difficulties opens the way for more creative thinking. Building for the future: creating a dynamic workforce (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – Fit for practice? Addicted to incompetence by Jane McGregor and Mike Epling
As the National Treatment Agency sets out to gauge exactly what drug workers really know about substance misuse, the authors say that much needs to be done to create a workforce of competent drug workers fully equipped to help users.…
Druglink article 2003 – Creative thinking: painting and pruning for problem users by Lesley Don and Sam Hart
Recovering drug users are being offered therapeutic ways of breaking addictions. The authors explain how gardening and the creative arts can help. Creative thinking: painting and pruning for problem users (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – Goodies for baddies: helping the undeserving homeless by Claire Whitfield
Claire Whitfield tells how a city’s rough sleeping was solved – despite a wall of discrimination against chaotic drug users. Goodies for baddies: helping the undeserving homeless (PDF)
Druglink article 2003 – Drug of choice: a radical prescription for dual diagnosis by Tim Sayers
Many of those who suffer from mental illness self-medicate with illegal drugs – both to deal with their illness and to offset the effects of medication. So why not prescribe the self-medications, suggests Tim Sayers. Drug of choice: a radical…
Druglink article 2003 – Blast from the past by Max Daly and Harry Shapiro
As the children of the 80s become ill, the trojan horse of hepatitis C threatens to overwhelm the NHS. Blast from the past (PDF)