DRINK AND DRUGS NEWS :: Archived features

03.12.07

Quality straight
The obsession with quantity over quality is failing our clients. Shaking up our priorities could offer a more inspiring box of tricks, says Nick Barton.

Face the facts
Are drug and alcohol services accessing and engaging black and minority ethnic users in treatment? Roseanne Sweeney looks at the evidence.

Book review
Crack Cocaine: The open door

A year in headlines
From preparing for a new drug strategy and battling with budgets, to getting problem drinking taken seriously, there was plenty to write about in 2007. DDN looks back.

Inventing the wheel
In common with many loving parents, seeing her youngest son in the throes of alcohol addiction drove Sue H to despair and the point of illness. Constructing her 'Recovery Wheel' gave her a way of coping.

Post-its from practice
One size does not fit all: we must accompany patients on their journey, says Dr Chris Ford.

Service user group fact file
This issue, Richard Pike from Portsmouth Users Self Help (PUSH).

Letters
Responses to recent DDN features.

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