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17-Feb-2006

Service User Comment On The NTA Treatment Effectiveness Strategy Notes and Quotes In July 2005 the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse launched its new “Treatment Effectiveness Strategy” which is aimed at improving the service user’s journey into, through and beyond treatment. In view of this, eight people who use services met to learn something of the strategy, and discuss what ‘effective treatment’ means to them. ‘Help people to help themselves. You are only going to have that worker there for so long and after that what are you going to do if you have got problems? It is important to know what support is there if you ever need it again!’ See report inside ‘more’.

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15-Feb-2006

‘Our health, our care, our say’ In January the Department of Health published a joint health and social care white paper; ‘Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services’. A case study under the Chapter ‘Ensuring our reforms put people in control’ describes a service for ‘drug and alcohol misusers’.

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09-Feb-2006

Tough Choices Paul Keeling offers an introduction to the possible journey offenders might take in the light of the expansion of the Drug Intervention Programme

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07-Feb-2006

Dr Russell Newcome on the ACMD report on cannabis Russell offers a critique of the Home Office report ‘Further consideration of the classification of cannabis under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971’ recently published by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

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