News News Archive 2008 Recovery focus on drug use
Recovery focus on drug use |
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| Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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On May 29th the Scottish Government launched the first national drugs strategy since devolution. Within the strategy, entitled 'The Road to Recovery - A New Approach to Tackling Scotland's Drug Problem', the central theme of this new approach to tackling problem drug use is based firmly on the concept of recovery. The strategy makes reference to the progress made around promoting recovery from long term mental health problems and how these principles can be applied to problem drug use. One of the actions the strategy proposes is the establishment of a Drug Recovery network, similar to that of the Scottish Recovery Network. For more information visit the Scottish Government website. |
| New SRN research explores the experience of recovery over time |
16 May Since the first discussions about bringing recovery based approaches to Scotland began, one thing has always been clear: that people's personal narratives - the stories and experiences they share - are central to understanding and encouraging mental health recovery. |
| Black women, recovery and resilience |
16 May In a specially commissioned article for SRN, researcher and psychiatric survivor Dr Jayasree Kalathil explores the issues of recovery and resilience from the perspective of black women interviewed for a 2011 study by Survivor Research and the Mental Health Foundation. While the article focuses on recent data from England, there are important lessons to be learnt everywhere, including Scotland. |
| What mental health practitioners talk about, when they talk about SRI 2 |
16 May Having recently facilitated Learning Networks on the use of the updated Scottish Recovery Indicator (SRI 2), SRN’s John McCormack was keen to hear from practitioners about their use of the tool and how it affects practice in the field. Here John shares his discussions with Lindsay Kerr and Jan Thomson who both work in NHS Ayrshire and Arran’s Mental Health Services. |
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