For many individuals, the first step toward recovery is acknowledging their personal struggle with substance dependence. The next step is finding a treatment program that can help restore their overall health, well-being and happiness.
Paying drug addicts to be sterilised is exploitative and wrong, say critics of just such a scheme that runs in the US. Jane Beresford talks to the woman behind Project Prevention.
A new Live Chat service has been launched to provide Doncaster people with easy access to drug and alcohol advice online.
The new initiative has been introduced by Aspire Drug and Alcohol Service, as a modern, interactive way to help people get support and information from its expert staff, and can be accessed on the Aspire website at www.aspire.community.
This volume provides a thorough and up-to-date synthesis of the expansive and highly influential literature on the cognitive neuroscience of addiction from the last 30 years. Bringing together contributions from leading authorities in the field, it places emphasis on the most commonly investigated drugs of abuse.
EURAD is a European non profit drug policy Foundation that advocates a prevention and recovery oriented drug policy at national and international level.