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September issue
Off the wall?
Fighting social networking is a losing game
TRYING TO LIMIT THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY'S SPREAD across social media networks is an ambitious aim (news, page...
August issue
What price life?
Why naloxone should be everyone’s business
THE NALOXONE DEBATE seems to be taking a long time to come to a conclusion but the...
July issue
Editorial Coming soon...
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June issue
Beyond definition
Recovery can mean whatever it needs to
With recovery sounding more mainstream every minute, GPs began their two-day conference in Harrogate eager to know what...
May issue
Food for thought
Worldwide inspiration on harm reduction
WE ARE RIGHTLY CONCERNED ABOUT TREATMENT IDEOLOGYin this country when, more than ever, so much depends on it. In...
April issue
Spare some change
Recovery pilot offers an all-inclusive approach
Recovery is here there and everywhere, but our cover story describes how Sefton had the chance to...
March issue 2011
Seizing the day
Action from our fourth service user conference
We came back from Seize the Day!on a high. Many more questions had been asked than...
February issue
In with the new
More news and views in our new monthly format
I CHALLENGE YOU to look at this issue and not say ‘I never...
January issue
Fresh inspiration
On the upside of change
Welcome to our first issue of the new year. We have policy updates for you – the NTAexplains proposals...
July issue
Inside learning
Time for a critical look at our prisons
AT FIRST GLANCE you might wonder why we’ve devoted most of this issue to reports about...
21st June issue
Inspiration fix
Don’t curb your enthusiasm!
THE ENTHUSIASM AT THE WELSH SERVICE USERS' CONFERENCE(page 12) was infectious and refreshing, particularly in this climate of real and impending...
7th June issue
Cloaking device
Why prejudice is obscuring basic support
THERE HAVE BEEN 14 MURDERS OF SEX WORKERS since the Ipswich cases four years ago. The cost of initiatives to...
May issue
Learning curve
Lessons from global harm reduction
AFTER A TURBULENT FEW WEEKS the election is finally over, with a hung parliament a certainty as we go to...
April issue
No patient game
Tough talking on crime as the election draws near
Election campaign sparring has brought tough talk on crime from the party leaders, ahead...
29th March issue
Family fortunes
Let’s not play roulette
Despite family support being a central part of the current drug strategy, it has for years been poorly funded and sporadic....
15th March 2010
Let’s stand back and share the view
President Obama’s drug strategy team has a monumental task on its hands if it is going to change...
1st March issue
We were right there!
Respect and inclusivity were order of the day
Welcome to our special issue, celebrating our recent DDN/Alliance service user involvement conference. Right here,...
15th February issue
Too hot to handle?
Why we have to take on the headline writers
The issue of stigma is so familiar to the drug and alcohol field...
1st February issue
Lives first – always
Public health’s no follower of fashion
The language of recovery can be exciting. It enthuses, it galvanises, it stirs people into action....
January issue
Staying grounded
Can legislation be meaningful to tackle highs?
The dangers of ‘legal highs’ have been hitting the headlines over the past few months, and the...
4 December Issue 2006
In this issue: Have you voted in our website poll yet? Online voting has opened up a whole new world of instant feedback for us.
This issue's...
20 November Issue 2006
In this issue: Dr Fitzgerald highlights the opportunities of schools and outside agencies working more closely together to give pupils (and families) different levels of support.
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6 November Issue 2006
In this issue: Two years ago we started Drink and Drugs News to provide information to the drug and alcohol field.
We’d like to take this opportunity...
9 October Issue 2006
In this issue: Once again this country’s prisons have been declared at bursting point this week, to the point where we’re looking at shipping prisoners abroad or...
11 September Issue 2006
In this issue: We’re back from our August break, and it’s good to be hearing from you again! As the heatwave becomes a dim memory the conference...
17 July Issue 2006
In this issue: Nottingham- it's not what you say, it's the way you say it.
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3 July Issue 2006
In this issue: how does it stack up? DDN interview Paul Hayes from the National Treatment Agency.
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19 June Issue 2006
In this issue: can we make sense of a system that criminalises illness?
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5 June Issue 2006
In this issue: Residential rehab in urgent need of clarity and action.
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22 May Issue 2006
In this issue: aftercare provision in the real world.
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8 May Issue 2006
In this issue: tackling the postcode lottery in Primary Care?
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24 April Issue 2006
In this issue: tough questions for tough choices.
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10 April Issue 2006
In this issue: rebuilding service delivery from the ground up.
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27 March Issue 2006
In this issue: Special edition! Life beyond prison- support and services inside and out.
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13 March Issue 2006
In this issue: alternative therapies and empowerment in recovery.
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DDN 27 February Issue 2006
At a prison conference in Leicester this month, colleagues from all areas of the prison and probation services, and those who work with them, declared their need...
DDN 30 January Issue 2006
There’s a great deal you can’t do without money – but there’s a lot to be said for a ‘can do’ attitude. Kevan Martin (page 12)...
DDN 16 January Issue 2006
Welcome to our first issue of the year. I hope you’ve managed to get back into routine without too much of a struggle.
With every newspaper and...
DDN 25 July 2005
We’ve got a packed DDN for you – because there’s so much to say before we take a break for four weeks in August.
The...
DDN 11 July 2005
‘User involvement is meaningless if it’s just at a low level’ – one of Anna Millington’s comments to the NTA conference to launch the...
DDN 27 June 2005
Sometimes the march of drug supplying and dealing seems unstoppable. Type any drug name into your Google browser and you will see thousands of...
DDN 13 June2005
Working with clients to break up a lifetime’s relationship with substances can never be easy – but it’s hard to imagine many more difficult...
DDN 30 May 2005
When you’ve got an out of control drug or alcohol user in the family, the last thing you want to do is talk about...
DDN 16 May 2005
A very warm welcome to SMMGP this issue, who join our merry band of partner organisations. The ten-year-old organisation for Substance Misuse Management in...
DDN 5 May 2005
There’s been no shortage of opinion on the rights and wrongs of drug testing in schools, and the concept of ‘sniffer dogs’ brings with...
DDN 18 April 2005
The effect of drink and drugs on the children of substance misusing parents scarcely cuts across the news media’s radar, says Rosie Brocklehurst, in...
DDN 04 April 2005
Going over to Chelmsford for an Essex Drug and Alcohol Service Users Conference last week, turned out to be an interesting experience.
For starters,...
DDN 21 March 2005
‘I’m still very much in the listening phase,’ Alcohol Concern’s new(ish) chief executive Srabani Sen told me, when I interviewed her for this issue.
Talking...
DDN 07 February 2005
The page about health risks from our drinking epidemic seems to have dropped out of the government’s alcohol strategy, so we’ve devoted a few...
DDN 24 January 2005
Asking for opinions on cannabis a year on from reclassification was an interesting experience.
Views range from ‘why is it taking so long to...
DDN 13 December 2004
The other day I bumped into neighbours who began chatting about Christmas.
The kids would be away from home for the first time, and they...
DDN 29 November 2004
I was fortunate this week to be invited to a lecture, arranged by the National Association for the Children of Alcoholics (NACOA), which really...
DDN 15 November 2004
Alcohol campaigning has, it seems, been a little slow to get the results it needs.
Tacked on to a number of major drug reports as...
DDN 1 November 2004
Welcome to our very first issue of Drink and Drugs News! Brought to you by the Federation of Drug and Alcohol Professionals and Wired,...