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[…] FDAP, WIRED and its partner organisations. On behalf of www.drinkanddrugs.net 21 March 2005 | drinkanddrugsnews| 3 Partners in Prevention Conference AdFam has given voice to prison families Caroline Flint visiting a drug link project in Shepherds Bush as part of her aim to speak to service users and frontline-workers. News |Round-up www.drinkanddrugs.net 4| drinkanddrugsnews| […]

[…] to the drawing board and re-evaluate my future career as it doesn’t look very likely that it will be in my chosen field! Regards to Kevin Flemen. Caroline Knight, Midlands PS (Somebody giz a job.) Power struggles nothing new It was with mixed feelings that I read Kevin Flemen’s commentary (DDN,23 October, page 6). […]

[…] faults, the fact that major safety net taken away stands out as particularly crass in the social care agenda. Vicky baloney, service manager, Early Break The need to influence local commissioning is huge. I’m often met with ‘does that tick an outcome box for me?’ We try and link with social care – it’s about challenging and educating other services that are in contact with children. We’re dependent on high threshold cases coming forward. It’s about a whole family approach, including domestic violence and mental health. We need to see families who are not in touch with any services. Eric Appleby, chief executive, Alcohol Concern Alcohol’s always been the poor relation. One of the possible effects of changes is that the playing field will be leveled up a bit.  We need places for families to go – and for them to know that places are there. Many things prevent them from doing this, such as them thinking that it’s normal and that they should cope. No one knows how to talk about drinking – it’s either a joke or a real problem. Professionals will ask about all sorts of things but find it very difficult to talk about alcohol. We talk about ‘binge drinking young people’, because that’s not us. Alan Hopley, director of fundraising, marketing and communications, Addaction Not only will drugs and alcohol compete with obesity, smoking etc, but ring- fencing will come off. So there won’t be a joined-up approach – it’ll depend on personalities and local authorities. Payment by Results (PbR) may mean a very quick turnaround; people in and out of the door. These are the sorts of contracts we’re going to have to decide whether or not to go for. We need to make successful services more successful and let other stuff fall by the wayside. We have to work in different ways. Carole Sharma, chief executive, FDAP We have a challenge in helping the treatment workforce to work differently from how we’ve always worked. We need to train all staff involved – we’re still failing to get the agenda into doctors’, schools etc. We’ve had a culture of targets – and they can clear the mind and help you focus. But some people think if you don’t have to do it, you can ignore it, so they don’t have a drug and alcohol service. Lots of reforms are based on the fact that people are passionate about what they do – but this doesn’t make it safe. I feel we’re going to have to start again from grass roots. Jan Tallis, chief executive, School bome Support We’re having to put more effort into showcasing our work. Last year we were working in b50 schools – this year it’s 150. We lost five local authority contracts. There’s no one else there for early interventions, asking the right questions.  School’s a brilliant place to start as it’s a non-stigmatising environment, but teachers need to have drug and alcohol awareness. People are being required to double their output for half the input – it’s scary. Services won’t be there that we used to use for referrals. Let ’ s talk … April 2012 |  drinkanddrugbnewb | 9 www.drinkanddrugsnews.com Cover story b  Family bupport […]

[…] amount being spent on drug treatment and recovery support over the next three years.  Investment in improving the quality and capacity of treatment, as recommended in Dame Carol Black’s independent review, is long overdue following the decade of spending cuts to treatment services. The renewed focus on recovery is both welcome yet ironic given that […]

[…] weeks – four times more likely to overdose on opiates, resulting in high drug related deaths in this group. This is something that was recognised by Dame Carol Black’s review, which stated the importance of ‘keeping prisoners engaged in treatment after release – improved engagement of people before they leave prison and better continuity of […]

[…] consultation Vernon Coaker introduces the Drug Strategy Consultation, launched this week, and calls on DDN readers to take par t in debate. 8 Widening the safety net Caroline Cockwell explain how the substance misuse team at Bristol Prison is using naltrexone at a far earlier stage intreatment to give inmates a better chance of […]

[…] engage. With drug markets now out of control, we had not created the environment where prisoners could go for treatment instead of using drugs in prison. Dame Carol Black’s report represented a phase of refreshment, he said – a chance to come back from ten years of neglect. There was no underestimating the ‘awful challenge’ […]

[…] levelled the playing field for the defence in closure orders – and indeed in other ASBO-type legal proceed- ings – in The Queen on the Application of Carol Cleary v Highbury Corner Magis- trates Court 1 All ER 270Lord Justice May stated that magistrates courts should treat anonymous hearsay evidence with great care as […]

[…] their staff and improve the experience of service users. £110 + Vat per delegate Qualifications, competence and government targets – making it work 26 February Central London Carole Sharma Former NTA work-force development lead This one-day workshop will assist those responsible for workforce development in creating local systems for the development of the substance […]

[…] animated discussion about addressing all the other things going on in a person’s life – the things that profoundly influence health. We’re at a pivotal point. Prof Dame Carol Black tells us that we need to make our case for why a boost in funding has not had the desired impact on drug-related deaths. We have […]

[…] your views on the cost of long-acting injectable buprenorphine? It is roughly £200 more annually than oral buprenorphine so this isn’t actually an issue, especially as Dame Carol Black’s report notes how much, when untreated, opioid users can cost the government per year. Confusion arises as commissioners sometimes forget to include the dispensing and other […]

[…] make significant positive changes to the lives of individuals, their families and communities. 9 New funding for the drug sector, and an increasing emphasis on gambling Dame Carol Black’s Independent review of drugs and the subsequent government drug strategy which launched in December 2021 came with significant investment – £530m for treatment and harm reduction, […]

[…] including primary, secondary and acute care.’ However, the reasons behind the long-term erosion of the field’s capacity to support people in need were ‘plain to see in Dame Carol Black’s recent review’, it stated. ‘This recent rise in deaths makes only more important the announcement of the cross-government drug strategy in the coming weeks.’ Sad Silhouette

[…] a drug or alcohol problem. The winner will receive a cheque for £150 and runners up £100, and the successful entries will be read at Adfam’s annual carol concert in December by Adfam patron Sandi Toksvig and actors Zoe Wanamaker and Lesley Joseph. Entries can be a piece of writing (500 words or less), […]

[…] FDAP, WIRED and its partner organisations. On behalf of www.drinkanddrugs.net 21 March 2005 | drinkanddrugsnews| 3 Partners in Prevention Conference AdFam has given voice to prison families Caroline Flint visiting a drug link project in Shepherds Bush as part of her aim to speak to service users and frontline-workers. News |Round-up www.drinkanddrugs.net 4| drinkanddrugsnews| […]

[…] assistant at Adfam. Maria won this year’s ‘Family Voices’ , Adfam’s annual creative writing competition. Her poem (right) was read by Sue MacGregor at last week’s candlelit carol service at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street. DDN’s editor was one of the judges of the competition. www.drinkanddrugs.net 14 | drinkanddrugsnews| 12 December 2005 Legal | […]

[…] need support,’ says Will Haydock, senior health programme advisor at Public Health Dorset. The group is devising a workplan, but is waiting for the recommendations of Dame Carol Black’s review (DDN, July/Aug, page 5) to avoid any duplication or inconsistency. They are, however, certain that their plan will focus on developing best practice and workforce […]

[…] 2008 The successful candidate will be required to apply for disclosure at Enhanced level from the Criminal Records Bureau. For further info. and application form please contact Carole Barnes on 01293 825400 or carole@prinsted.org DDN in association with FDAP Essential workshops Supervision, appraisal and DANOS 2 June 2008 – central London This one-day workshop […]

[…] How many times do we keep trying to save people who don’t want to be saved? How many times do we bring them back from the brink to show them what a decent life is, only for them to vomit all over it after yet another bottle of gin? Carole Malone, Mirror, 14 July  

[…] a real difference to people’s lives – with those people being some of the most vulnerable in our society. The desperately needed infusion of cash following the Carol Black review and the drug strategy will hopefully mark a genuine turning point for the sector after years of disinvestment, and with it come new opportunities for […]

[…] a welcome boost in the last Spending Review but that funding was only for a year and will do little to reverse many years of under-investment. Dame Carol Black has recently called for additional ring-fenced funding for treatment – which I fully support. People on probation should be a priority group for longer-term investment which […]

[…] and a loss for our communities. Drug-related deaths are preventable, not inevitable, and now is the time for change. The recommendations made to Government in the Dame Carol Black Review offer a once-in-a-generation opportunity to change things for the better, but only if they are implemented in their entirety. For things to improve, we must […]

[…] clinical management in the field of substance misuse and associated areas to organisations across the UK.     Barriers to work Last July the government asked Dame Carol Black to conduct an independent review into the challenges of getting and staying in work for people with drug and alcohol problems, or who are obese.   […]

[…] work reforms play out locally, London service users wanted to know. DDNreports At last week’s NTA London Regional Users’ Forum meeting,there was a presentation from Jobcentre Plus. Carol Adams’ aim was to ‘mythbust’ the new ‘welfare to work’ reforms, she said – in particular the treatment allowance that will be payable to people seeking […]

[…] within a prison sethting to make  changes to their substanhce use –  throughout their sentence and prior  to their releaseb I’m responsible for  managing a caseloahd, completing  P eople find work in tmhe  drugs sector through  a variety of routes  and for a range of  different reasons.  DDN is partnering  with Addiction Professionals to  explore the pathways into the field,  and how to progress once you’re  there. As everyone knows, working  in the sector has its challemnges –  as has especially mbeen the case in  recent years – but it can also be  hugely rewarding. It’s not everyone  who can honestly samy that their  work is making a real difference to  people’s lives – with those peomple  being some of the momst vulnerable  in our society.  The desperately needed infusiomn  of cash following the  Carol Black  review and the drug smtrategy will  hopefully mark a gemnuine turning  point for the sector after years of  disinvestment, and with it come  new opportunities for those  wanting to enter the field or further  CAREERS WWW.DRINKANDDRUGSNEWS.COM 12  •  DRINK AND DRUGS NEWS  •  SEPTEMBER 2022 NeoLeo / iStock A CHANCE  TO CHANGE  LIVES THE KEY  TO SUCCESS develop their existing careers.   In the coming months we’ll be  exploring a wide range of roles  including pharmacismt, therapist,  psychologist, social mworker, nurse  and volunteer, but we kick off by  looking at one of the mainstamys  of the profession – the recovery/ keyworker.  Keyworkers are the primary  point of contact for the client,  […]

[…] trustworthiness, safety, empowerment, choice and collaboration in treatment – key underpinning tenets of trauma-informed care. Our study chimes with the findings of the second part of the Carol Black review, and the need for services to reorientate their approaches to enable people to engage. Finally, it’s important to say that the type of study we […]

[…] work reforms play out locally, London service users wanted to know. DDNreports At last week’s NTA London Regional Users’ Forum meeting,there was a presentation from Jobcentre Plus. Carol Adams’ aim was to ‘mythbust’ the new ‘welfare to work’ reforms, she said – in particular the treatment allowance that will be payable to people seeking […]

[…] targeting newer users), whilst others have been rationed (such as inpatient detoxification for people with complex and multiple problems heroin assisted treatment and residential rehabilitation.)’ Professor Dame Carol Black So, what happens when people who are already struggling to stay alive lose the fragile links to the support they have? Lose the opportunity to be […]

[…] they need. It said spending on youth addiction services in England had been cut by 41 per cent in real terms since 2013-14, a fact that Dame Carol Black acknowledged in her independent review.  There has been a 55 per cent reduction of the numbers of young people in treatment since the peak in 2008-09. […]

[…] of the current legislative framework, there had been an opportunity to give evidence to the Home Office independent review of drug markets and violence, led by Dame Carol Black. The National Police Council were contributing, said Kew, and Kirstie Douse added that Release were submitting a full response. The review would be looking at drug […]

[…] session with the young person. At the fourth offence an Acceptable Behaviour Contract (ABC) will be developed, which includes sessions with a young person’s substance misuse worker. Carol-Anne Matic, the Royal Borough’s anti-social behaviour co- ordinator said the joint initiative was part of their ‘firm stance against those who will not change their behaviour […]

[…] give us the strength to tackle the wider societal and structural stigma which will be critical to our success.’  When it came to women’s treatment, the Dame Carol Black review – while a welcome and valuable document – didn’t focus enough on the specific needs of women, said Hannah Shead, chief executive of Trevi, a partner […]

[…] University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) has also been spotlighted. The new initiative supports people in the county with both mental health and drug and alcohol issues. Dame Carol Black recently attended an event to mark the launch of ICoN, commenting on her hope that “other areas will now find out more about ICoN and think […]

[…] ‘Heroin addiction is a very real and very serious health concern which has widespread social and economic impact across communities,’ said chair of the RCN’s Cambridgeshire branch, Carol Evans. ‘It is vital that as nurses, carers and clinicians we recognise that one approach does not necessarily work for all and as such we have […]

[…] ‘spend big bucks – on some areas’, he said. ‘We’ve got the Treasury backing this with some major investment, for which a big hats off to Dame Carol.’ Once again, however, it was crime that had ‘animated the strategy and unlocked the funding.’ Collective Voice director Oliver Standing Overall the strategy was ‘really good […]

[…] set up to just exist,’ he said. ‘We’re set up because real things need to be done.’ This included trying to influence the drug strategy, the Dame Carol Black review, and the spending review. ‘The drug strategy is still not published and we’re concerned it might edge away from 2010 strategy – we won’t know […]

[…] highlight the effects of substance misuse on families, the community and health by young people at HM Young Offenders Institute (YOI) Wetherby. The work was guided by Carole Fletcher from Manchester College, with direction from the Young People’s Substance Misuse Service (YPSMS) at Wetherby. Paul, Nathan, Danny, Alex, Mathew J, Aaron B and Aaron […]

[…] to be adequately resourced to meet the increased demand, it stressed.  The move away from short prison sentences is undoubtedly a welcome one, however. As Professor Dame Carol Black pointed out in the first part of her Independent review of drugs, more than a third of the-then 82,000 people in prison were there for – […]

[…] on ways to connect with peer support and recovery communities. The more we understand about why people are ‘cycling in and out of our prisons’ (Prof Dame Carol Black) the better position we are in to provide appropriate interventions and support. News of more sudden deaths, including clusters in prison, further underlines the emergency we […]

[…] to grow and expand, in spite of our cautious approach. This culminated in a Recovery College event on 23 April, where we were delighted to welcome Dame Carol Black to address more than 100 delegates. She spoke of the central role that she sees lived experience playing in the treatment and recovery system of the […]

[…] treatment that have been built up over decades are not lost in the coming years’. Meanwhile, the prime minister has commissioned the Department of Health’s Prof Dame Carol Black to conduct a review into whether people with drug or alcohol problems should have their sickness benefits cut if they refuse to enter treatment. Around 100,000 […]

[…] window of opportunity to take some radical steps forwards, with a new government committed to invest and the impending release of the second part of the Dame Carol Black review. We need to take a public health approach to treatment and rehabilitate people caught up in the criminal justice system – instead of referring people […]

[…] ‘There’s the historical idea that we have to fix one before we fix the other.’ Things seem to be changing, however. ‘I do think now, with Dame Carol Black particularly, there’s more understanding about how vital stable and secure housing is to drug and alcohol treatment. We’ve been working at the nexus of homelessness and […]

[…] Department of Health and Social Care (health improvement) and a new UK Health Security Agency (health protection). The sector is also awaiting the publication of the Dame Carol Black Review of Drugs and a new Government Addiction Strategy. All these processes will have something to say about how services are commissioned and delivered. Read the […]

[…] guidelines to ‘unpack eligibility criteria, quality standards, outcome monitoring and resettlement/aftercare provision,’ it says, adding that preserving residential provision must form part of any response to the Carol Black review.  Phoenix Futures chief executive Karen Biggs ‘Residential treatment has been, and continues to be, an effective policy response to a wide range of social issues,’ […]

[…] he said. Outreach work had suffered and there were only five NHS detoxification units in operation now – a stark reduction in the last 20 years. The Carol Black review, while welcomed, ‘didn’t specifically look at alcohol, which for me pretty much showed where people’s priorities were,’ said Doherty. The alcohol strategy promised for 2019 […]

[…] top. There needs to be a complete intolerance of how people with addiction issues have been treated over the years.’ Despite the health focus of the Dame Carol Black review, the drug strategy had become very crime focused – a ‘silo approach’. ‘We need to work really collaboratively to make sure we’re doing the best […]

[…] support in 15 years, while also giving more resources to law enforcement so they can continue dismantling organised criminal gangs and tackling the supply of drugs.’ Dame Carol Black, the second part of whose Independent review of drugs is due to be published this year, said she was ‘delighted’ by the £80m pledge. ‘This will […]

[…] there is a will to connect and form productive alliances to tackle stigma. And more than that, there is an urgency in the wake of the Dame Carol Black report to seize the moment, and to emphasise that the treatment policy framework desperately needs to encompass alcohol as much as drugs (p16). We’ll be taking […]

DRINK AND DRUGS NEWS (DDN) is the monthly magazine for everyone working with substance use issues. Since 2004 it has become established as the authoritative voice of the sector, the place for in-depth news and features and the forum for debate. Published independently by CJ Wellings, DDN is distributed through a 10,000 printed circulation and […]

[…] your area or contact a helpline in confidence. The National Advice Ser vice run by Rethink (020 8974 6814) can also offer information and support to you. Caroline Hawkings Mental Health Policy and Campaigns Officer, Turning Point MIND resource Dear Danny Mind offers information through our website, www.mind.org.uk and booklets, and may be able […]

[…] in need of addiction treatment referred for residential? Is the belief that it is too expensive accurate? This needs to be fact checked considering the recent Dame Carol Black Independent review of drugs part two, and the imminent launch of the government’s Joint Combatting Drugs Unit. Much has been made of the cost of residential […]

  The Recovery Connectors group and lived experience recovery organisations (LEROs) are reshaping the way we look at recovery, say David Best, Stuart Green, Dave Higham, Tim Sampey, Tim Leighton, Jardine Simpson, Michaela Jones, Dot Smith and Ed Day. Long before the championing of recovery in the Drug strategy 2010, there were incredible efforts across […]