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Lifeline Prison Team, North West
Prison Drug Throughcare Worker
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In 1971 the Lifeline Project opened a daycentre for drug users in Manchester. Since its foundation Lifeline has grown and developed, and now works in a diverse range of settings across the UK. Our purpose is to relieve poverty, sickness and distress among those persons affected by addiction to drugs of any kind, and to educate the public on matters relating to drug misuse.
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Challenges for a Recovery-Focused Drug Policy
Adapted from Ian Wardle’s presentation to the UKDPC Seminar
Ian Wardle, Lifeline CEO
May 1st 2008
‘An important part of the impetus behind the ‘Recovery’ Movement is to grasp this broad range of challenges which taken together show that there is no viable future for services as they are configured today.’
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Introducing Lifeline’s new Chair of the Board of Trustees – John Scampion
Lifeline is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of a new Chair of the Board of Trustees.
Read more about John Scampion and his message to Lifeline staff here >>
On the 1st Feb 2008 Ian Wardle has been Chief Executive of Lifeline for 15 years.
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Chief Executive’s Report
Who owns Lifeline and who decides what it is for?
Ian Wardle, Lifeline Chief Executive
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 To relieve poverty, sickness and distress amongst those persons affected by addiction to drugs of any kind and to educate the public on matters relating to drug misuse. 
For more information on our purpose, history & philosophy and who we are you can visit our online Annual Review (07) >>
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Hard economic conditions demand we be ever more clear with communities on the impact of our work
"People aren’t going to be worried about drug users at all…its simply not going to be good enough to say ‘people are marginal’."
Ian Wardle
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Drug-War Milestone: UK drug searches and drug offences both reach record levels
Russell Newcombe
Lifeline Project
Drug-related searches and offences in the UK have now reached unprecedented levels. First, drug-related stops & searches by the police in England & Wales climbed to a record level of 405,000 in 2006/07, up from just 32,500 in 1986. This constitutes a twelve-fold increase in 20 years, and amounts to over 1,100 drug-related stops & searches per day |
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Fitting into the future Part 1
Ian Wardle, Lifeline CEO
Without a vision, serious self-criticism is impossible
It is easy to sneer at long-term exercises in ‘visioning’, but a serious, integrated approach to tackling deep-rooted inequality and deprivation is, quite frankly, inconceivable without a dedicated, explicit and strongly aspirational long-term plan. So although ‘Treatment may Work’ and ‘Treatment may be Good’ it does not in any way excuse us, as an industry, from developing a solid critique of all those things about treatment that don’t work and aren’t good… |
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Please note that at this time the website is unable to answer specific queries and requests related to drug use, training or employment. For advice and information please see ‘Contact Us’ and the Annual Review pages to find your local services or a relevant professional. sitemap >
Lifeline is a Registered Charity No: 515691 and a Company
Registered by Guarantee No: 1842240
Registered Office: 101-103 Oldham St, Manchester, M4 1LA
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