Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Abstract Aims: To conduct a randomized, controlled trial of abstinence-contingent recovery housing delivered with or without intensive day treatment among individuals exiting residential opioid detoxification. Design: Random assignment to one of three conditions: Recovery housing alone (RH), abstinence-contingent recovery housing with RBT (RH+RBT), or usual care (UC). RH and RH+RBT participants received 12 weeks of paid recovery housing contingent upon drug abstinence.
Also filed in Evidence Base, cocaine
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Tagged day-treatment, drug-abstinence, improves, meet-abstinence, paid-recovery, random, rbt, recovery, recovery-house, remained-more
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Courtesy of Laura Pechey, HAGA's Brief Interventions Specialist: Earlier this month, as part of their Alcohol Awareness Week activity, HAGA celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with an exciting programme of events as part of its Annual Public Meeting (APM). All HAGA’s services and projects were showcased, as well as a service-user art exhibition focusing on stigma, “Growing Recovery” gardening workshops and a mocktail bar.
Also filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged alcohol campaigns, alcohol-academy, field, london, matthew-andrews, north, price, professor-betsy, public-health, public-services, recovery, treatment
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Last month the London Drug and Alcohol Policy Forum (LDAPF) and Greater London Authority (GLA) hosted an event on Managing the Night Time Economy. Presentations [pdf] from the day included: Camden's NTE Jon Paris and Michael Hrycak, London Borough of Camden Havering NTE Deborah Houston-McBean, Havering London Borough Overhauling the Licensing Act Mark Halton, Home Office Newham's Total Enforcement Sheila Roberts, London Borough of Newham TfL and the NTE Graham Daly, Transport for London Islington Community Alcohol Partnership John Hart, Islington Coucil LAS Soho Alcohol Recovery Pilot Brian Hayes, London Ambulance Service See here for presentations from a previous London NTE event . An Alcohol Concern NTE factsheet is also available, or see the Alcohol Policy UK NTE category .
Also filed in UK Alcohol Policy, crime
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Tagged alcohol, alcohol-policy, brian-hayes, community safety, greater-london, licensing, london-borough, london-drug, michael-hrycak, night, night-time, paris, policy
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Young adults undergoing addiction treatment arrive ready and willing to make the personal changes that bring about recovery, but it’s the help and guidance received during treatment that build and sustain those changes, according to a longitudinal study published electronically and in press within the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence…
Also filed in Guidance, Uncategorized
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Tagged addiction-treatment, alcohol, arrive-ready, Guidance, journal, make-the-personal, personal, press-within, received-during, recovery, study-published, the-help, the-journal
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Alcohol is known to worsen the effects of disease, resulting in longer recovery period after trauma, injury or burns. It is also known to impair the anti-viral immune response, especially in the liver, including response against Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV…
Also filed in Uncategorized
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Tagged anti, anti-viral-immune, effects, hcv, hepatitis, hiv, impair-the-anti, including-response, injury-or-burns, liver, longer-recovery, recovery, the-liver, worsen-the-effects
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Chronic alcoholism is often associated with a disturbed gait and balance, likely caused by alcohol damage to neural systems.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims : Evidence indicates AA participation reduces relapse risk but less is known about the mechanisms through which AA confers this benefit.
Also filed in Evidence Base
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Tagged clinical-sites, effect, mechanisms, negative-affect, network-changes, outcome-values, relationship, social-networks, the-mechanisms, their-relative, united
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Abstract: Background: From the mid-1990s, UK governments developed partnerships to tackle drugs nationally and locally. Over time, increased resources focused on communities and localities in greatest need
Also filed in Evidence Base, crime
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Tagged both-the-real, cities-or-outer, dangerous-drugs, democrat, drug-treatment, future-adequacy, government, local-variation, poorly-educated, recovery, reflected
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
ABSTRACT Aims: Examine the reciprocal effects between the onset and course of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and normative changes in personality traits of behavioral disinhibition and negative emotionality during the transition between adolescence and young adulthood. Design: Longitudinal-epidemiological study assessing AUD and personality at age 17 and 24. Setting: Participants were recruited from the community and took part in a day-long, in-person assessment
When a research team asked cocaine addicts to choose, hypothetically, between money now or cocaine of greater value later, “preference was almost exclusively for the money now,” said Warren K., Bickel, professor in the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, director of the Advanced Recovery Research Center, and professor of psychology in the College of Science at Virginia Tech…
Also filed in Uncategorized, cocaine
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Tagged between-money, carilion, cocaine, college, money, money-now, research-center, virginia, virginia-tech, warren
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