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6 NEWS FOCUS
As DDNmarks its tenth anniversary, we take a look at some indicators of what the future might hold.
7 STAYING ALIVE
Could the recovery agenda be killing people? Alex Boyt makes the case from his own experience.
8 BEST FOOT FORWARD
Alistair Sinclair on a vibrant month of recovery activities.
9 COMMUNITY CHEST
This year’s RiTC conference asked what a community could and should mean.
12 MY, HOW YOU’VE CHANGED!
Some of the sector’s key players look back on the last ten years, and make their predictions for 2024.
20 THE MAIN MAN
Ex-NTA chief Paul Hayes shares his thoughts on an evolving treatment field.
24 BACK IN THE DAY
Three stalwarts of the sector look back at the birth of DDN.
REGULARS
4 NEWS ROUND-UP
: Sharp rise in Scottish drug-related hospital admissions • NICE pill for heavy
drinkers• ‘Millions’ of children exposed to World Cup alcohol marketing • News in brief.
10 LETTERS
: Time to misbehave; Walk this way? Time to reflect; Gambling support; Misleading figures.
11 MEDIA SAVVY
Who’s been saying what?
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In the beginning...
We look back over our first decade
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SO HERE WE ARE
, a decade on, at our anniversary issue! Back in 2004, Ian, Jez and I were putting the
finishing touches to our very first DDN, feeling excited and not a little nervous at our massive gamble that the
sector wanted its own free, fortnightly (as it was then) magazine. The return was instant. By our second issue I
was receiving contributions – and we were away. Our free magazine was winging its way to everyone who had
an interest in drug and alcohol use and we were being welcomed by a readership whose warmth, honesty and
enthusiasm surpassed my wildest dreams.
So how have we fared since those early days? Well I can’t pretend it’s always been easy – it hasn’t. Our
fiercely guarded independence and neutrality have meant depending on our advertising to fund each issue –
and a glance at pages 12-19 will give clues to how difficult the climate has made that. Sometimes we’ve
wondered if we can carry on bringing you a free magazine, but the whole point of DDN is to make sure it goes
everywhere, and not just to those who can afford to pay for it. Times ahead are tough for all of us. But if you
value the magazine and want to see it continue, please fill in our online readers’ survey, contribute to the
magazine, and – gawd bless you – advertise with us, as the adage ‘use us or lose us’ has never been truer.
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