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Abstinence-Supported Addiction Treatment
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How does ASAT support recovery? People get to a point where they think, okay so I stopped the coping behavior, now what? If just stopping substance use or stopping something that was causing negative effects in my...
‘The World’s End’ – Actor Simon Pegg on Depression & Addiction:
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Self-Medicating – Simon Pegg’s experience with self-medication is likely familiar to many other recovering addicts. It absolutely reflects my own life story. Like Pegg, I was diagnosed with depression as a teenager, and started “treating”...
Opioid replacement treatment. Great! What’s next?
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In opioid use disorder treatment, there’s been a persistent (though not always acknowledged) tension between what’s good for public health and what individuals and their families want from treatment. I’ve written about it before. For public...
Is Drug Addiction a Brain Disease?
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This popular claim lacks evidence and leads to poor policy. The notion that drug addiction is a brain disease has become axiomatic. Around the globe aspiring health professionals treating substance abuse are indoctrinated with this...
Re-tasking the Judicial Educator to Rehabilitate Not Incarcerate
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“It’s not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems … what’s hard is to decide to do it.” Robert Downey Jnr (2004) This is where assisted decision-making is imperative. No matter how functional the...
“It’s not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems [drug addiction]… what’s hard is to decide to do it.” Robert Downey Jnr (2004)
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This is where assisted decision-making is imperative. The drug addled brain has corrupted processes due to the presence and interference of psychotropic toxins. The Judicial Educator actively engaged through problem-solving courts is the key circuit...
Substance Misuse Briefing – Drug Courts 2020
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Enhancing the Criminal Court Response to Substance Misuse: an Evidence and Practice Briefing (Drug Court Effectiveness) Evidence suggests substance misuse courts are effective at reducing reoffending and drug and alcohol misuse. Practitioners identify key problem-solving...
The Judicial Educator At Its Best – Law for Recovery + Drug Courts + Secure Welfare = Rehabilitation!
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Records broken at Australian-first drug treatment prison Wandoo Rehabilitation Prison for women celebrates second anniversary Prison has nation’s lowest rate of return to prison of less than one per cent Wandoo still remains drug-free, which...
Stanford neuroscientists target drug-associated memories as a way to prevent relapse
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Removing memories associated with morphine use from the brains of mice enables Stanford researchers to prevent relapse and could point to a new approach for treating the opioid epidemic…Both the reward of the drug “high”...
Quantifying the social costs of pharmaceutical opioid misuse and illicit opioid use to Australia in 2015/16
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In recent decades the range and patterns of opioids used for extra-medical purposes have changed. The use of pharmaceutical opioids exceeds the use of heroin. In 2017, 63 percent of opioid deaths were attributed exclusively...
We Do Recover
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We Do Recover – Excerpt from evidence-based review of N.A and 12 Step Facilitation Programs Active drug users have a generally positive view of NA and seek help through NA through a variety of influences, including...
