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NEWS FOCUS
While the run-up to the Winter Olympics has seen outcry over Russia’s anti-gay legislation,
less has been said about the country’s treatment of its drug users. DDN reports.
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LONDON CALLING –
COVER STORY
As London treatment service Blenheim celebrates a milestone anniversary, Jo Palmieri
looks back at 50 years of social action affecting the drug and alcohol field.
14 HOW FAR HAVE YOU COME?
David Best, Tracy Beswick and Merce Morell explain how their new online outcome
measurement tool assesses progress on the recovery journey.
16 ON THE FRONTLINE
Mat Southwell talks to David Gilliver about how things have changed over his three decades
of work in advocacy and harm reduction.
18 ROOM AT THE TABLE?
Last month’s
Creating Recovery
conference was as much about establishing the criteria for
‘recovery’ funding as about celebrating recovery, as DDN reports.
REGULARS
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NEWS ROUND-UP
: Government bans below-cost alcohol sales • Shake up at Drinkaware over
industry links • Government to opt out of EU directive on new drugs • News in brief.
10 MEDIA SAVVY:
Who’s been saying what..?
10 LETTERS
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Committed to naloxone; Get certified; Perception of doors; Pooling resources.
11 POST-ITS FROM PRACTICE:
The challenge of Dry January meant different strokes for different folks,
says Dr Steve Brinksman.
12 GOOD PRACTICE EXCHANGE
:
Jenni Parker tells DDN about the Aurora Project Lambeth, a social
enterprise that offers volunteer-led peer mentoring to people in treatment.
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Precious rights
Let’s keep our ideological battles in context
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Editorial – Claire Brown
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In Russia, people who use drugs have no human rights
, says Anya Sarang of the Moscow-based Andrey
Rylkov Foundation in this month’s News Focus (page 6-7). The stark reality of this is that there is no opioid
substitution treatment, few needle exchange programmes, and little harm reduction of any kind – and rising rates
of HIV and hepatitis C. There is not even any hep C treatment available for people who inject drugs, more than 70
per cent of whom are infected with the virus. Efforts of other countries to influence the Russian government come
to nought as ‘the rest of the world is wrong’.
So whatever our battles back home, let’s at least be grateful for dialogue, both with politicians and with those
to whom we are ideologically opposed. There are some diverse, indeed starkly opposing, views in this month’s
issue, but it is heartening to hear Mat Southwell’s view in the profile interview (page 16) that ‘there are figures on
both sides of recovery and human rights/harm reduction who share views and are looking for points of connection
and trying to collaborate.’ Let’s celebrate these points of connection at
Make it Happen!
on 20 February – call us
or visit our website for your last chance to book. We’re looking forward to making this the best service user
involvement conference yet. See you there!