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6 LOADED DICE?
The estimated 450,000 people in the UK with a gambling problem are at a distinct disadvantage when
it comes to getting access to treatment. DDN reports.
8 WHAT STATE ARE WE IN?
A new, improved
State of the sector
report is underway and needs your input, says Paul Anders.
12 SEMANTIC CHALLENGE
The language of new drugs can be unhelpful at best and risky at worst. Kevin Flemen offers a guide.
14 DOING IT FOR OURSELVES
Harnessing the strength within our recovery community is the key to answering social problems, say
Tony Williams and Mario Sobczak of Kingston RISE.
16 SPANNING THE YEARS
Recently retired substance misuse manager for Bristol City Council, Sue Bandcroft, reflects on decades of
change in the sector.
18 STILL GOING STRONG
As Broadway Lodge celebrates 40 years of offering treatment for a variety of addictions, Karen Kirby
shares the steps they have taken to adapt and thrive.
19 BY OUR SILENCE WE LET OTHERS DEFINE US
In the run-up to the UK Recovery Walk this month, Annemarie Ward looks at how far the charity has
come and where it’s heading.
REGULARS
4 NEWS ROUND-UP
: Legal high deaths ‘could’ top heroin deaths, says CSJ • Scots drug-related deaths
down from record highs • Put health warnings on all alcohol, say MPs • Foil rules for services come into
force • News in brief.
10 PRACTICE EXCHANGE
: Michael Gilbert talks to DDN about StreetRx.com, a new website that
encourages the exchange of information between drug users while also promoting harm reduction.
11 LETTERS
: Mind the prejudice; Strength inside.
11 MEDIA SAVVY
: Who’s been saying what?
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‘The most effective way to overcome addiction
and eliminate its costs is to help people to stop taking drugs and
become fully abstinent,’ says the Centre for Social Justice in its new report,
Ambitious for recovery
(page 4), adding
that they would consider urging government to ‘look at reducing welfare payments for claimants who continually refuse
to address their addiction’. Such wide-sweeping ownership of the word recovery is not only dismissive of other routes
to treating addiction, it’s also a disservice to many of those trying to develop inclusive recovery communities.
In their article on page 14, Kingston RISE acknowledge the government’s need to monitarise solutions, but refuse
to see their community as just a problem to be solved. Their purpose (and inspiration) is rediscovering wellbeing –
which by its very nature should be inclusive – and they highlight the aim of being ‘as diverse and open minded as we
can’. This month’s profile adds to the case (page 16), with Sue Bandcroft reflecting on decades of change within our
sector. Looking back to the 1980s she offers a timely reminder of the crucial role of harm reduction, with ‘all partners
working together’. She’s still a firm believer in different approaches – ‘not one particular dogmatic approach or the
other’. Let’s not let authentic voices of experience be drowned by the big splashes from the think tanks.
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