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27-Jan-2009

Personalised Conditionality – Key Papers “We will also provide tailored support to help problem drug users to get off drugs and move into work. A new drug and employment programme will provide an integrated approach to drug treatment and employment support. This will give drug users the chance to turn their lives around. In return, we will expect drug users to take up this support, so that benefits are going to help people overcome their problems, not into the pockets of drug dealers.”

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06-Nov-2008

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 CEO Lifeline project

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22-Oct-2008

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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16-Oct-2008

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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25-Aug-2008

BRIEFING: Substance use and Welfare to Work: Sophie Johnson, Lifeline Project This document gives an introduction to substance use and welfare to work. It contains four sections: 1. Background: An overview of welfare reform and substance use 2. Questions and challenges: A summary of related issues 3. Technologies: Key processes, services and resources underpinning welfare reform Publications: Summaries and links to reports, policy and research documents

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24-Aug-2008

Department for Work and Pensions paper on Drug use Population estimates of problematic drug users in England who access DWP benefits: A feasibility study A report of research carried out by the University of Glasgow and the University of Bath on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions Gordon Hay and Linda Bauld

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05-Aug-2008

A model for Harm Reduction? Dr Russell Newcombe on the seven concepts that may cover all aspects related to reducing harm caused by the use of drugs. Russell explains the seven concepts: Context; Amounts; Methods; Patterns; Mixtures; Access and Product.

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31-Jul-2008

‘Welfare to Work’ Plus ‘Potholed Road to Recovery’ The Government’s Welfare to Work green paper, ‘No one Written Off’, is in a period of consultation. We have pulled together links and basic information to help those people interested in engaging with the discussion. Also attached is Mike Ashton’s paper ‘Potholed to Recovery’: ‘Recovery also provides a benevolent rationale for an entirely non-medical imperative — to save money by getting patients out of treatment, off welfare benefits, back to work, and paying taxes. In the credit crunch era, Britain can no longer afford for people not to recover. Where a few months ago retention remained the yardstick of effective treatment, now the new aim is to get rid of the patients we can no longer afford to retain.’ – Mike Ashton Ian Wardle Lifeline Chief Executive

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