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Addicts offend to get rehab, says Amy Winehouse's father - The Guardian 21st October 2009
"Drug addicts desperate to kick the habit are forced to commit criminal offences to get a place in rehab, the father of singer Amy Winehouse told MPs today.
Mitch Winehouse, who is making a documentary on drug use, was giving evidence to the home affairs select committee on the cocaine trade. He said drug users struggling to get clean had to wait at least a year for treatment while addicts committing other crimes were often given places in residential rehabilitation centres."
Amy Winehouse's father says drug users resort to crime to get rehab - Daily Telegraph 20th October 2009
"Drug users are committing criminal offences so they can go into rehab, the father of troubled singer Amy Winehouse has said. "
Addicted to methadone? - BBC Health News 8th October 2009
"Old habits die hard. The latest figures on drug treatment in England [876KB PDF] show that despite calls for services to be "more ambitious", despite a new drugs strategy stressing the importance of helping users get clean, the proportion of addicts getting into rehab is stuck at just 2%."
Feeding 'speeds surgery recovery' - BBC Health News 2nd October 2009
"Cancer patients recover faster from gastrointestinal surgery if given liquid food directly into the intestine, a study suggests.
The research, on 121 patients, was carried out by Cardiff University. "
Treatments helping addicts, says drug study - The Guardian 1st October 2009
"Two-thirds of heroin and crack cocaine addicts on drug treatment programmes either abstain or substantially reduce their use of street drugs during the first six months, according to the biggest study of outcomes ever attempted."
Scientists: drug treatment does work - The Independent 2nd October 2009
"Two-thirds of heroin and crack addicts come off street drugs or reduce their use after six months of treatment, researchers report today.
The findings of the largest-ever study of heroin and crack cocaine treatment programmes, published in The Lancet, will come as a relief to drug agency workers who feared their efforts were having little impact. Heroin and crack addicts often lead chaotic lives, fuelled by the proceeds of crime, which are among the hardest to turn around."
Treatment cures only one in three drug addicts - Daily Mail 2nd October 2009
"Only one in three drug addicts in treatment programmes stops injecting heroin or using crack cocaine in the short-term, according to the largest study ever carried out.
Around one-third claim to have cut their use of street drugs while the others stay the same or get worse after six months. "
Drug therapy record 'encouraging' - BBC Health News 2nd October 2009
"One in three people addicted to heroin or crack cocaine in community drug treatment programmes in England stops using by six months, research suggests.
Results from 14,600 people in methadone or specialist counselling programmes suggested the rates were slightly lower for those dependent on both drugs. "
Heroin destroys individuals and communities - Lancashire Telegraph 18th September 2009
IT’S often assumed that hard drugs are a modern plague. But that is not the case.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, opium, sold as ‘laudanum’, was freely available in Britain and used by all classes, even, it is claimed, Queen Victoria.
‘Shooting galleries' hit the target - Lancashire Telegraph 18th September 2009
IT would appear that the weight of expert opinion in favour of prescribing hard drugs, particularly heroin, for long-time users at special NHS-funded centres is growing at a significant rate. Government-appointed experts, set up by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, report that a trial programme of supplying addicts at centres in London, Darlington and Brighton, known somewhat whimsically as “shooting galleries”, had yielded positive results.
Heroin and the road to self-respect - The Guardian 18th September 2009
Treating addicts with pharmaceutical heroin is beneficial emotionally and financially – I've seen it first-hand
Jack Straw calls for heroin on NHS - The Sunday Times 20th September 2009
JACK STRAW, the justice secretary, has called for the NHS to give out heroin on prescription to addicts for whom other forms of treatment have failed.
He claims “imaginative” solutions to hard-drug abuse are needed and believes there could be “huge benefits” to issuing the drug to chronic addicts.
Jack Straw calls for heroin on prescription - The Sunday Telegraph 20th September 2009
Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, has called for the NHS to give out heroin on prescription to addicts where other forms of treatment have failed.
Collapse of Lighthouse Project drugs charity left 600 Southport addicts at risk - Southport Visiter 16th September 2009
THE collapse of drugs rehabilitation charity, the Lighthouse Project, left 600 Southport addicts at risk of going without vital treatment.
The Merseyside charity closed its doors last week with debts of around £2m and 250 staff facing redundancy.
When singer Edwyn Collins had two strokes, his family were desperate to help. But nurses treated them as a nuisance - Daily Mail 15th September 2009
Two devastating strokes had left him paralysed and barely able to speak, let alone feed himself. Following surgery to stop further bleeding on the brain, pop star Edwyn Collins also developed an MRSA infection.
There was no denying he was desperately unwell - yet, once he was out of intensive care, he found his problems had only just begun.
Former Lighthouse Project chief executive speaks for first time about Merseyside charity’s collapse - Liverpool Echo 11th September 200
THE chief executive of a collapsed Merseyside drugs charity who was suspended amid allegations of financial irregularities today denied any wrongdoing.
Diane Bird spoke for the first time about the downfall of the Lighthouse Project, which helps thousands of addicts, earlier this week.
Users 'mix wider range of drugs' - BBC Health News 11th September 2009
A decline in the quality of drugs is encouraging takers to use a wider range of substances, a report suggests.
But the study from UK information charity DrugScope warns treatment services may not have the capacity to help so-called "poly-drug" users.
New charity Add Action take over collapsed Lighthouse Project in Liverpool and Knowsley - Liverpool Daily Post 10th September 2009
THE UK’s largest drug and alcohol treatment charity has taken over part of the collapsed Lighthouse Project on Merseyside.
Add Action has accepted a contract to run the services which cater for thousands of addicts in Liverpool and Knowsley.
Methadone - going green, going clean - Carlisle News & Star 2nd Spetember 2009
WHILE critics say methadone simply replaces one drug dependency with another, Kirkby GP Dr Andrew Wilson firmly believes it is the most effective way to treat heroin addiction. CLAIRE CRISP speaks to him
Melissa Viney on the rehabilitation treatment her housemate received from the NHS - The Guardian 2nd September 2009
After her housemate fell into a coma, Melissa Viney was told he might not walk again. But was his rehabilitation treatment through the hands-off NHS part of the problem?
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