This article is compulsory reading. The government keeps telling us that ‘volunteering’ is the way ahead and that statutory provision only has itself to blame if it loses ground to the voluntary sector. Here, you can find the reasons for…
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Druglink article 1999 – Singing from the same hymn sheet: Still struggling with multi-disciplinary teams by Tony Herbert
At the end of 1997, Druglink carried an article examining the theory of multi-disciplinary drug teams. A year on, we have to ask ourselves whether Community Psychiatric Nurses and social workers alone constitute a multi-disciplinary team or are Community Drug…
Druglink article 1999 – Caring and sharing: Modelling successful shared care by Jim Barnard and Claire Higson
It’s been around for as long as you care to remember – in theory. But the practice of shared care has all too often failed to live up to the ideal. So here, the leaders of one of the country’s…
Druglink article 1999 – Joint commissioning: Panacea or Pandora’s box by Don Lavoie
In this article, the author draws on three years’ experiences as a contracts manager in South East London to put the case for joint commissioning. Joint commissioning: Panacea or Pandora’s box (PDF) Additional keywords: funding / purchasing /
Druglink article 1998 – From clinic to community: the changing face of treatment by Harry Shapiro
30 years ago a new era of drug treatment was ushered in with the creation of Drug Dependency Units. Since then, we have seen the treatment sector respond to epidemics, disease and funding crises – but what have the last…
Druglink article 1998 – Out in the cold: Drugs, homelessness and social exclusion by Toby Seddon
Tackling drugs to build a better Britain positioned drugs firmly in the context of social exclusion. Then the ACMD’s Drug Misuse and the Environment had a chapter on housing and homelessness. And now, Keith Hellawell has a buddy – the…
Druglink article 2014 – 1987: Rehab funding – the funding crisis for rehabs by David Tomlinson
The 1990 Community Care Act changed the funding arrangements for places at residential rehabilitation placing the onus now on social services to provide the cash. Led by David Turner, SCODA fought a campaign to retain a ring fence around services…
Druglink article 1998 – Educating Rita: adult education and women’s stories by Gillian Weaver
Beyond the immediate and fundamental levels of poverty, unemployment and homelessness, social exclusion is ultimately founded on cultural exclusion. If addicts are ever to be ‘included’ once more in society, they need to be given the opportunity to rejoin it…
Druglink article 1998 – All change in the health market by Peter Mason
Eight years ago Peter Mason predicted that market forces would fragment drug services and called for a minimum standard framework. What the intervening years have shown us is that the NHS internal market has failed to establish a special case…
Druglink article 1998 – Abuse and misuse: the ultimate hidden population by Jane Wilson
For a number of years, workers in the addiction field have noted that a growing number of their clients are ‘addicted survivors’. The association between adult substance misuse and childhood sexual abuse is increasingly being documented. Abuse and misuse: the…