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p01 cover.qxd 29/10/04 8:39 pm Page 1 From FDAP in association with WIRED 1 November 2004 Caroline Flint – how to get the drugs out of crime FDAP – new code of practice Your NEW fortnightly magazine | jobs | news | views Ads.qxd 29/10/04 7:32 pm Page 2 Client’s view (using drawpad) of screen in mid-session Assessor choosing actions to place on caller’s screen Launching this month From WIRED In association with FDAP and Distance Therapy Ltd VIRTUAL OUTREACH A uniquely secure online tool to bring together substance misuse professionals and their clients. Virtual Outreach has internet-based counselling, assessment, and groupwork rooms, with video and voice links, chat and whiteboard that give strict confidentiality and anonymity to your client. Use Virtual Outreach for: Assessment and referral Counselling (individual and group) Peer support Aftercare Virtual Outreach is based on the online therapy tools of DistanceTherapy.com, originally designed to help recovering gambling addicts. It has been specially developed to relate to substance misuse. To see demos and try out Distance Therapy, visit www.distancetherapy.com For further information, please contact: Professor David Clark [email protected] 07967-006569 p03 editor/contents.qxd 29/10/04 8:48 pm Page 3 Published by 1 November 2004 On behalf of FEDERATION OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROFESSIONALS Editor’s letter Welcome to our very first issue of Drink and work situations. But we’re not all about the official Drugs News! side of work. Natalie’s story (page 6) and Dave’s The 21st Century approach to tackling substance misuse Brought to you by the Federation of Drug and ‘day in the life’ (page 12) illustrate what we’re all Alcohol Professionals and Wired, the magazine will about: demonstrating that treatment and support give you a round-up of what’s going on, who’s services can, and most definitely do, make a real saying what, and the latest issues for debate, and lasting difference to people’s lives. Drink and Drugs News in every fortnight. We hope you enjoy this issue – but we’d be the partnership with: You’ll see that we’ve teamed up with the first to recognise that we’re not there yet. It’ll take partner organisations listed on this page to bring time to make sure the magazine’s representative of news and features from very different your work and informative to those working in the perspectives. The other part of the equation, to fields linking yours, whether in a treatment agency, make this magazine a successful communication social services, a needle exchange, prison and tool, is you. The magazine will work best if you let probation services, health service or social housing. us know what’s happening in your workplace and It’s been a hectic few months getting ready for region. Let us know your experiences with clients, our launch and there have been many late nights and practical solutions that will help other readers. compiling the mailing list. If you work with This issue we catch up with Caroline Flint at the someone who should be on it, please let us know Home Office, who shares some interesting thoughts and we’ll add them for the next issue. on drugs and crime. On the professional side, we Last, but not least, please write! Your letters summarise FDAP’s revised code of practice, which will make Drink and Drugs News a lively forum gives some helpful advice on those less than clear for debate. Editor: European Association for Claire Brown the Treatment of Addiction t: 020 7463 2164 In this issue e: [email protected] Advertising Manager: Ian Ralph t: 020 7463 3581 e: [email protected] News Roundup Interview Reaching the hard to reach – FDAP’s Designer: annual conference | Treatment funding cover story Jez Tucker from the Scottish Executive | Research on How to get the drugs out of crime e: [email protected] IDU infection from the Health Protection Caroline Flint MP talks about the Subscriptions: Agency | Mentor Conference calls for more sustained support option, in breaking the Drugs and e: [email protected] family support 4 drug crime cycle. 8 Alcohol Today Events: e: [email protected] Features Making the code FDAP’s revised code of practice gives Website: How I became... practical advice for every tricky scenario in www.drinkanddrugs.net Natalie describes her route to heroin the substance misuse field. 10 Website maintained by Ash Whitney of Wired-up addiction... and the beginning of her Wales pathway out 6 Diary 12 CJ Wellings Ltd, FDAP and WIRED Published by CJ Wellings Ltd Up close: WIRED A day in the life of... do not accept responsibility for the accuracy of statements made by Printed on environmentally Real world meets web communication at its Dave Watkins, treatment agency community contributors or advertisers. The contents of this magazine are the friendly paper by the best, to help poople tackle substance support worker copyright of CJ Wellings Ltd, but do Manson Group Ltd misuse. David Clark gives the story behind not necessarily represent its views, or those of FDAP, WIRED and its the WIRED initiative. 7 Events 13 partner organisations. Cover pic by Andy Paraskos www.drinkanddrugs.net 1 November 2004 | drinkanddrugsnews | 3 p04-05 News.qxd 29/10/04 8:01 pm Page 4 News |national In brief Parents need more quality attention Parents need services that are responsive financial reasons, extending their enough ‘resilience factors’ would make NTA treatment focus and ‘give what’s needed, when it’s transition to adulthood. them less likely to turn to substance misuse. A ‘shorter and more focused’ needed,’ Anne Page from the National More than a third of parents in Having strong family ties, being treated treatment plan template is Family and Parenting told this week’s Scotland were worried about their children fairly at school and having a strong spiritual now available from the Mentor UK International conference. becoming involved with substance misuse. belief or connection with a sports team, National Treatment Agency. ‘Parents want to be acknowledged as The survey figure was much lower for were all ways to make teenagers more The documents are designed experts in their own lives,’ said Ms Page. London, at 11 per cent. resilient, she advised. to help partnerships ‘They’re more likely to report satisfaction Research identified age 13 as a The Mentor conference, chaired by (between Crime and Disorder with services if they’ve been listened to. watershed and Ms Page called for more Baroness Susan Greenfield, heard a call Reduction Partnerships and The traditional profile of the family support to plug the gap in services for from Chief Executive Eric Carlin to make Drug Action Teams) develop had changed. Families were smaller, most families with teenagers. sure parents had a strong voice: ‘At a time their strategic planning and mothers worked and the parenting role There was a tendency to ‘stereotype when the media are giving mixed resource allocation. was often filled by a grandparent, teenagers as Kevin and Perry, which messages about alcohol, parents need to Visit www.nta.nhs.uk for full neighbour or family friend. More children teenagers can resent’, she warned. Making be empowered and have a clear idea of guidance. were ‘boomeranging back home’ for sure that young people were equipped with that they need to say.’ Alcohol briefing A briefing paper from Alcohol Hepatitus C cases double Extra funding to help Concern advises on developing a coherent strategy for manag- Cases of hepatitis C have where environmental Scottish addicts ing alcohol problems in comm- doubled among drug users in contamination of heroin A 23 per cent increase in that meant many areas of unities. Aimed at primary care the last three years among seemed likely. funding has been announced Scotland were subjected to a organisations, GPs and prac- those who have recently An outbreak of tetanus by the Scottish Executive to long wait for treatment. tice managers and alcohol started injecting, according to that started with 11 cases in help addicts reach treatment But he criticised the action treatment providers, the the Health Protection Agency. 2003 had continued into this and rehabilitation. plan for insufficient funding strategy document exploits the Research in the HPA’s year, and there had been 14 An investment of £6m and a lack of detail. Treatment flexibility of the new GMS latest annual report highlights reported cases of wound would bring 300 more people a would be opened up to just contract with GPs. Available a growing problem with botulism during 2003. week into treatment and im- 9000 more people over the next from www.alcoholconcern.org injection sites becoming HIV infection, while rare in prove quality and consistency three years – which would infected. Blood poisoning injecting drug users, had of treatment, according to mean still only half of drug cases from methicillin resist- increased in recent years, Justice Minister, Cathy users in Scotland would be New chief for concern ant Staphylococcus aureus and was becoming more Jamieson. likely to get help. Srabani Sen joins Alcohol (MRSA) and severe group A evident in people who had The minister also promised There was a lack of comm- Concern this month, as their streptococcus (GAS), linked begun injecting in the last a stronger partnership itment to helping people new Chief Executive. Ms Sen to intravenous drug use, were three years. between the criminal justice move into the vital stages of comes from Diabetes UK and on the increase. There were Dr Fortune Ncube, who and health services that would education, training and jobs, has a background of comm- 160 cases of GAS reported in compiled the report for the ‘loosen the dealers’ grip on our said Mr Liddell.