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[…] effective and decades-proven addiction recovery techniques. The beauty of such training is that, in addition to allowing an addict to cure him or herself of alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, crack, heroin, methadone and other already known addictions, it provides an immediate response to the ‘legal highs’ increasingly available and preferred because they avoid legal penalties. […]

[…] for adults over 18 who require assisted withdrawal from addictive substances from any combination 4of alcohol, heroin, recreational drugs, prescription drugs, st4imulants such as co4caine and crack cocaine, solvents and cannabis. bocus12www.focus12.co.uk • 01284 701702 Bury St Edmunds, Detox Centre Focus12 is a community ba4sed residential treatment centre offering intensiv4e primary treatment of alcoholism […]

[…] to ask that you get a little more angry.’ ‘Drugs are used as scapegoats,’ he said, quoting examples such as a newspaper headline from the 1930s: ‘Negro cocaine fiends are a new southern menace’…‘I hope this gives you conviction to change our narrative,’ he said. Using capability and courage involved critical thinking and calling on […]

[…] April 2016, page 4). A 2018 Court of Appeal ruling, however, stated that substances that only have an indirect psychoactive effect could still be covered by the legislation. The home secretary’s letter also seeks the ACMD’s advice on the drivers of increasing powder cocaine use among young people and drug sales on the ‘dark net’.

[…] illegal drugs combined. ‘If you’re going to argue – as many bright people have – that we should have corporations like the tobacco industry sell methamphetamine and cocaine, you should explain why those drugs wouldn’t then be up there at the top of that list.’ Reducing demand In terms of reducing demand, while it […]

[…] been approved following two consultations (DDN, August 2013, page 5). It will be an offence to be over the prescribed limit for eight illegal drugs – including cocaine, cannabis and MDMA – and eight legal ones, including methadone, diazepam and temazepam, with the regulations to come into force in the autumn. An agreed limit […]

[…] means of identifying what substances an individual has used, and whether that use is recent or in the distant past. We can identify the use of cannabis, cocaine, heroin and a host of other drugs. At the moment though, drug testing programmes are used within prisons on a limited basis, with relatively small samples […]

[…] the perceived ‘false dichotomy’ between harm reduction and recovery and explored the principles that actually unite them as an approach. Crew promotes a ‘stepped care approach’ to substance use which meets people ‘wherever they are at’ in their substance use and, crucially, doesn’t wait until people become problematic. It uses these principles in an approach that is person-centred and sets quality of life and wellbeing as important measures. CREWSUS workshops highlighted the key stages of the stepped care approach and invited delegates to look at practical measures that would work within their own organisations. Innovation was a key message for the day – particularly the potential in using new media for a range of interventions, beginning with information provision through to tackling problematic substance use within an environment increasingly fuelled by unregulated drug marketing.  Adam Winstock showcased the brand new web and smartphone based self-assessment tool  Drugsmeter.com. Crew also announced the successful funding of Crew Online, a service designed to support people looking to stabilise, reduce or stop their substance use based on the findings of their recent pilot and international collaboration OASIS, which clearly demonstrated an online service need in the community. From discussion with delegates, one of the main needs highlighted was ongoing updates on drug trends in Scotland. Crew training and outreach coordinator Katy MacLeod and George Burton from national training provider STRADA spoke about their development of training around novel psychoactive substances and emerging trends. In exploring key challenges for frontline staff, what was resoundingly echoed by delegates was a gap in services for psychostimulants users, with frontline staff and organisations generally opiate-focused and often lacking in knowledge and confidence to ask about or deal with psychostimulant use.  With statistics suggesting Scotland is the  cocaine capital of Europe (WHO), the rise in new psychoactive substances, re-emergence of MDMA and an increase in referrals for support around long-term cannabis use, it would be unwise not to respond to these findings. With current budget restrictions and more emphasis than ever on preventative spend, Crew suggests we need to be intervening earlier and not waiting until use becomes problematic. It also suggests the need to recognise that people  canand  douse substances relatively safely and therefore we must ensure that we have credible resources available for people to make informed choices.   So a day of highlighting challenges to workers certainly, but moreover a day of exploring ways of tackling these challenges, at every stage of substance use.  In partnership with Incite, Crew will be running open workshops in Aberdeen: Psychostimulation on 2b April and Legally High? on 25 April.   Crew are also running free training for trainers events on 30 April in Edinburgh and 21 May in Glasgow.  www.mind-altering.org beft: bive art at CREWSUS 2012 – demonstrating a range of outreach techniques to reach substance users. FbONTLINE CbEW For assessment information,   please call Steve Scorah on 07922 147200 enquiries@ttprehab.org.uk      www.ttprehab.org.uk s/VERSUCCESSFULCOMPLETIONRATESFROMBOTHCENTRES s0ICKFROMONEOFTWOHIGHQUALITYBED#1#REGISTERED   […]

[…] statistics. The figures represent a fall of around a fifth compared to 2005 and are down ‘hugely’ since the 1980s and ‘90s, says New opiate and crack- cocaine users: characteristics and trends. The downward trend has ‘flattened since about 2011, but available data do not suggest that this is the precursor to a new […]

[…] ’70s to mid ’80s brought together psychiatrists who hated prescribing, some of the private doctors who could still prescribe some opiates and opioids (but not heroin or cocaine), and the very few doctors who did still prescribe injectables to the few. They were often vicious and sometimes very personal – some moderating influence came […]

[…] and successfully treat addictions to substances as well as behavioral compulsions and disorders. Our detox and rehab programmes cater for alcohol, and drugs like heroin, ecstasy and cocaine as well as other common behavioral disorders like eating disorders, gambling addiction or sex and porn addiction. We provide the following residential detox and rehab programmes […]

[…] clinics (see news, page 5 ). Ritchie had started gambling while at school, using his dinner money to play on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBT), dubbed the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’. Just seven years later he took his own life, with his parents arguing that he was addicted to ‘products licensed by the start’. Last […]

[…] typical user profile may be someone who’s taken drugs recreationally for years and whose drug use has previously been ‘relatively well contained’, he says. ‘They’ve taken ecstasy, cocaine, maybe some ketamine, but in the context of going out clubbing and maybe chilling out the next day – not this sort of days-on-end use. There […]

[…] and Crime Commissioner, explained. The office had begun by looking at the scale of the drug problem in the region, with the cost of heroin and crack cocaine users calculated as £1.4bn and the cost of crime committed by the average heroin or crack user as £26,000. A drug policy summit had involved the […]

[…] UK’s first xylazine death – a 43-year-old man in Solihull.  While xylazine is usually mixed with opioids it has also been detected ‘alongside stimulant drugs such as cocaine, and found in items sold as counterfeit codeine and diazepam tablets and even THC vapes’, says KCL. This means a far wider population than people who […]

[…] started to look at the situation in their area some ‘killer facts’ had emerged – not only were there more than 22,000 people using heroin or crack cocaine but ‘children are affected, social services – the costs are enormous. Half of all burglary is to feed a habit, and the cost on all public […]

[…] help’, he said. It was important to ‘not lose too much sleep’ over the launch’s punitive framing and instead ‘focus on the good stuff’. Talk of middle-class cocaine use might have accounted for much of the media coverage, but ‘if you look at the money there’s about £5m committed to that, and £700m on […]

[…] clients were also on a drug replacement therapy prescription, including detoxing from methadone. The drugs we detox, and which were included in the SWDAS study, are alcohol, cocaine/crack, heroin, cannabis, methadone, benzodiazepines, amphetamines, methamphetamine, GBL and ketamine. The Tauto-Mod system adopts a tautopathic approach, which involves the drug or substance that has caused the […]

[…] Evidence of his drug use shouldn’t be used to make him feel bad, not while we were on holiday. But our friend was shocked. “You’re still taking cocaine?” he asked. Read the full article on Addaction’s Blog. DDN magazine is a free publication self-funded through advertising. We are proud to work in partnership with […]

[…] device has been granted type approval and is available for purchase by UK police forces. The Securetec DrugWipe 3S – known as ‘Drugwipe’ – can detect the presence of cocaine or cannabis within eight minutes by analysing saliva, after which those testing positive can be taken to the police station for a blood test. ‘Drug drivers […]

[…] poor are staying poor.’ West Africa had become a drug trafficking hub, and although less than 0.5 per cent of Africans had reported use of heroin or cocaine, there was increasing availability of both, along with amphetamine-type substances, he stated. There were also significant levels of injecting reported in Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa and […]

[…] people close to me with their challenges around substance misuse. This was particularly driven by the arrival of cheap brown powder heroin in the ’80s and crack cocaine in the ’90s. My thoughts and feelings about drug and alcohol treatment at that time included anger and frustration, and of course compassion for the people […]

[…] with the fabulous Dr John Ramsey, it’s been viewed almost 100,000 times. Since then we’ve done minutes with various experts on topics as diverse as what’s in cocaine, ecstasy pill testing, harm reduction for new drug virgins, PMA deaths, GHB and ketamine bladder. In 2014 we want to open the door to the huge […]

[…] while the female rate increased for the ninth consecutive year to 47.5 per million. While more than half of all drug poisonings involved an opiate, deaths involving cocaine have now risen for seven years in a row and almost doubled between 2015 and 2018 – to 637. Fentanyl deaths, however, remained stable at 74. […]

[…] it is the actual fact of ‘usage’ which initiates and holds in place the addictive condition the drug generates. In addition to illicit drugs such as cannabis, cocaine and heroin etc, ‘hypnotic and addictive reinforced demand substances’ (which include the benzodiazepines, the ‘Z’ drugs, chloral drugs and derivatives, plus clomethiazole, and some of the […]

[…] users of one or another illicit substances,’ the report states.  Opiate use has remained stable, says the document, with heroin use apparently declining in Europe, while the cocaine market is expanding in South America and in Asia’s emerging economies. Around 1.6m people who inject drugs are estimated to be living with HIV, and there […]

[…] the US, scientists ‘couldn’t even use harm reduction in the title of a paper’ for it to be accepted. Drug terminology became the language of fear: ‘Crack cocaine is the principle cause of urban ghettos’, President Reagan’s drug czar William Bennett had said in the 1980s. Even now, 40 years later, discussions take place […]

[…] bladder removal in some cases, as well as issues with the kidneys and urinary tract. ‘Recent reports have shown ketamine is often an ingredient included in “pink cocaine”, the dangerous synthetic drug cocktail taken by users without knowing what mix of substances it contains,’ the Home Office adds. The Home Office has a statutory […]

[…] the total. Worryingly, methadone was implicated in, or potentially contributed to, 47 per cent of the deaths, and benzodiazepines to 67 per cent. Deaths involving MDMA and cocaine were also the highest since records began. People aged 35-44 accounted for 37 per cent of the deaths, and those aged 45-54 for 29 per cent. […]

[…] long, and the data presents a worrying picture. Drug-related deaths among women have been increasing for more than ten successive years – for example there were 195 cocaine deaths in 2021 compared to 19 in 2010. Learning from research, sharing practice through the Women’s Treatment Working Group and hearing what the women who come […]

[…] users of one or another illicit substances,’ the report states.  Opiate use has remained stable, says the document, with heroin use apparently declining in Europe, while the cocaine market is expanding in South America and in Asia’s emerging economies. Around 1.6m people who inject drugs are estimated to be living with HIV, and there […]

[…] hearing from people using services suggests there is some way to go.  We need to broaden treatment to address the needs of people experiencing harms related to cocaine, benzodiazepines and other drugs. People need to be empowered to make choices in terms of their treatment and their support. Our immediate concern is with local […]

[…] help paint a more detailed, realistic and timely picture of drug use and drug markets’, says EMCDDA. The most commonly used drugs after cannabis were MDMA and cocaine (35 per cent of respondents in each case), followed by amphetamines (28 per cent), LSD (20 per cent), NPS (16 per cent) and ketamine (13 per […]

[…] potent strains of cannabis and psychosis, for example, but the fact those strains have spread owes much to their illegality. You could say similar things about crack cocaine and heroin, or Spice, the horrible synthetic cannabinoid that now saturates our prisons. Legalisation of cannabis in some American states has, admittedly, led to a free-for-all, […]

[…] www.drinkdrughub.co.uk, presents an extensive but easy to use database of articles, videos and fact sheets. Resources cover everything from alcohol and prescription medications to illicit drugs like cocaine and heroin. Anyone in North Yorkshire can also attend free training or awareness events, and practitioners can discover learning opportunities provided by other agencies across our […]

[…] partly responsible for your death. This makes methadone significantly more toxic than heroin, (which had an implication rate of 83 per cent), buprenorphine (65 per cent) and cocaine (63 per cent). Put simply, methadone is the most dangerous drug out there. Methadone has the capacity to retain more people in treatment than buprenorphine, but […]

[…] Drug deaths in England and Wales are up by 10 per cent on last year, to 5,448. This includes a more than 30 per cent rise in cocaine-related deaths – the 12th consecutive increase – as UNODC reports that already record levels of production of the drug are set to rise further, with a […]

[…] of training providers please click here.   Support and Social Alcoholics Anonymous UK Links to online meetings and peer support. www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk – – – – – – Cocaine Anonymous Links to online meetings and peer support. www.ca-online.org – – – – – – Making a Difference Together A Slack channel open for information sharing across […]

[…] 2008-09. Around half of all young people in treatment had issues with alcohol, while almost 90 per cent reported problems with cannabis. Problems with ecstasy and powder cocaine stood at 8 per cent each, while the number of young people seeking help for heroin was below 0.5 per cent. Young people’s substance misuse: treatment […]

[…] widely consumed drug, with almost 20m people reporting use within the last year and more than 60,000 people entering first-time treatment for cannabis problems in 2013, while cocaine is still Europe’s most commonly used illicit stimulant. The document also reports increasing potency levels for cannabis, MDMA and other drugs. ‘The report shows that we […]

[…] met someone who didn’t drink. Maybe I would stop drinking now, I thought. Sadly I had fallen in love with someone who was on heroin and crack cocaine and I quite quickly became addicted. My life took a whole new downward turn. The weight fell off and I really did look like an Aids […]

[…] this impact on the UK drugs scene? Some drugs markets such as the UK homegrown cannabis market or the more ‘traditionally’ smuggled drugs such as heroin and cocaine will probably experience less disruption from these darknet closures. Indeed, closing down the online competition effectively ‘gifts’ a large market to the existing street suppliers – […]

[…] remains the main problem drug, with over 96,000 of the total treatment population of 197,000 seeking treatment for heroin dependency, and 63,000 for heroin and crack. Powder cocaine accounted for just 5 per cent of the treatment population, and cannabis 8 per cent. The current recession had not produced the same levels of youth […]

[…] possible.’   Statement from André Gomes, Laura Garius, Kirstie Douse and Claire Robbins, Release ‘The strategy rightly recognises that half of people dependent on opiates and crack cocaine are not in treatment, and that drug addiction co-occurs with a range of health inequalities, especially mental health issues, homelessness, and deprivation. Investment in improving the […]

[…] previous year. The number of adults entering treatment was 133,704, which was relatively unchanged from the previous two years.   The number of people starting treatment for powder cocaine was up by 11 per cent to 21,298 – slightly below 2019-20’s peak figure of 21,396 – while the number entering treatment for crack was at […]

[…] widely consumed drug, with almost 20m people reporting use within the last year and more than 60,000 people entering first-time treatment for cannabis problems in 2013, while cocaine is still Europe’s most commonly used illicit stimulant. The document also reports increasing potency levels for cannabis, MDMA and other drugs. ‘The report shows that we […]

[…] commission coming back to look at what has been taken up in 12 months time,’ a council spokesperson told DDN.  There are around 2,000 problem heroin and cocaine users in the city, according to the commission, with almost 1,500 people attending drug treatment services in Brighton in 2011-12. ‘We have a relatively high number […]

[…] problems with benzodiazepines – down to 2 per cent from 3.7 per cent the previous year – but 9 per cent said they had problems with powder cocaine and 7 per cent with ecstasy. The number reporting problems with ketamine was up from 4.5 per cent to 5.8 per cent, and the number saying […]

[…] on adult responsibilities or living in households where people misuse substances – are twice as likely to binge drink and 11 times more likely to use crack cocaine or heroin. If children regularly use substances from an early age, it can substantially impact their neurobiological and cognitive develop­ment, as well as affecting their ability […]

[…] well with primary healthcare services during times of crisis. For now, James is doing very well. He has drawn strength from the peer support he finds in Cocaine Anonymous meetings, having a sponsor, studying the ‘big book’ and talking with others who share his experiences and can offer him support. He has recently completed […]

[…] Like many market towns, Bur y and Newmarket have ver y strong night time economies, with all the attendant problems of alcohol misuse, and anecdotal evidence suggests cocaine use is on the rise. There is also a growing heroin problem. ‘It used to be that you couldn’t get heroin in Bur y, but that’s […]

[…] to 4.7 per cent. The reduced rates of use were likely the result of restrictions on social contact during the COVID-19 pandemic, says ONS, although rates of cocaine use were unchanged. Just over 9 per cent of all adults and almost 19 per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds reported last-year use of any drug […]

[…] urges that young people’s services be separate, so that younger users ‘don’t have to mix with older, more established users’.  There are around 2,000 problem heroin and cocaine users in the city, according to the commission, with almost 1,500 people attended drug treatment services in Brighton in 2011-12. ‘We have a relatively high number […]

[…] for problems with opiates, and almost 30 per cent for alcohol. Unlike previous years there was a fall in the number of people entering treatment for crack cocaine, used either with or without opiates, with the number at its lowest level since 2016-17. There was a 5 per cent increase in people entering treatment […]

[…] help link people up with appropriate community based services.’ The trend in increasing admission rates for younger patients was also ‘worrying’, he added, and mainly linked to cocaine and cannabinoid use. Meanwhile, a report from Audit Scotland shows a 71 per cent increase in drug-related deaths in Scotland since 2009, with 76 per cent […]

[…] the balance of harm reduction, treatment and recovery and the sharp increase in drug-related deaths ‘comes back to abandoning harm reduction’. The purity of drugs had increased, cocaine-related deaths had risen significantly, and Dame Carol Black’s review showed that ‘money alone will not fix this’. ‘We have to redesign services to make them more […]