Drink and Drugs News7 May 2007
In this issue
News Round-up
Drugs and Health Alliance launched • GPs call for collaboration • NTA’s overdose prevention study • Tough approach on underage drinking • Medical training patchy’ on substance misuse • AA celebrates 60 years • Media watch
Features
Cover story
Drug strategy loses its way
Howard Parker argues that changing alcohol and drug use patterns are not being reflected in policy, planning and commissioning, The first of our series of articles examining ideas for a
new drugs strategy.
Together we stand...
DDN talks to Jimi Grieve and Francis Cook
of the National User Network (NUN) and Kevan Martin of the North East Regional Alcohol Forum (NERAF) about their fight to represent service users effectively.
Don’t do drugs... drugs are bad...
Let’s learn from the failures of drug education in schools and change the emphasis to drug prevention, says Richard Ives.
Challenging the fast-fix culture
Culture and language barriers can make getting help with a substance misuse problem more of an ordeal, as Perminder Dhillon tells DDN.
Regulars
Letters and comment
A culture of fear?; performance pressures; freedom or addiction?; experience on the nature of addiction; we are therapists!
Background briefing
Prof David Clark continues his look at what treatment could look like if it were based on the best science possible (part 2).
Q&A
Advice for Rev Mackey on finding training to help people with drug issues.
Jobs, courses, conferences, tenders
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