11-02-2010
NTA Anthrax Update with Templates and Advice for Drugs Workers
"The Health Protection Agency (HPA) and NHS Blackpool have confirmed yesterday that the death of an injecting heroin user in Blackpool was the result of anthrax.
This is the second case of anthrax seen in an injecting drug user in England, the first announced in London on 5 February. Since December 2009, there have been twenty one anthrax cases, including nine deaths, among both heroin injectors and smokers in Scotland. Similarities to the cases in Scotland and another death in Germany suggest that the heroin, or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with the heroin, is the likely source of anthrax infection among English IDUs."
View the templates, advice and full information at:
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/
This is the second case of anthrax seen in an injecting drug user in England, the first announced in London on 5 February. Since December 2009, there have been twenty one anthrax cases, including nine deaths, among both heroin injectors and smokers in Scotland. Similarities to the cases in Scotland and another death in Germany suggest that the heroin, or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with the heroin, is the likely source of anthrax infection among English IDUs."
View the templates, advice and full information at:
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/
Who do they tell? (A46)
8 page booklet detailing the records that are kept by drug services about their clients and in what circumstances information is shared. Includes information about the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System and the Treatments Outcome Profile.
Alcopops Poster (K1)
The poster and postcards feature information on: drinking, driving and overcrowding cars; advertising; alcohol content; drinking to appear hard, risky situations; drinking alone and helping friends. Space is provided for local information.
Fitting into the future
Without a vision, serious self-criticism is impossible
It is easy to sneer at long-term exercises in 'visioning', but a serious, integrated approach to tackling deep-rooted inequality and deprivation is, quite frankly, inconceivable without a dedicated, explicit and strongly aspirational long-term plan. So although 'Treatment may Work' and 'Treatment may be Good' it does not in any way excuse us, as an industry, from developing a solid critique of all those things about treatment that don't work and aren't good...
It is easy to sneer at long-term exercises in 'visioning', but a serious, integrated approach to tackling deep-rooted inequality and deprivation is, quite frankly, inconceivable without a dedicated, explicit and strongly aspirational long-term plan. So although 'Treatment may Work' and 'Treatment may be Good' it does not in any way excuse us, as an industry, from developing a solid critique of all those things about treatment that don't work and aren't good...
Comment On The NTA Treatment Effectiveness Strategy
In July 2005 the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse launched its new 'Treatment Effectiveness Strategy' which is aimed at improving the service user's journey into, through and beyond treatment.