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Dec 9, 20212 min read
Alcohol Related Deaths Increase by 20%
The long terms impact of lockdown is beginning to be felt. One of the most dramatic impacts has been an almost 20 per cent increase in...
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Phil Harris
Dec 9, 20211 min read
From Harm to Hope: New UK Drug Strategy Published
The Government has published the new 10 Year Strategy. I have not had time to fully digest it at present but will be reviewing sections...
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Phil Harris
Nov 4, 20211 min read
Concerned Others: Living with Problem Users in Lockdown
Concerned Others, the parents, partners and close friends of those with substance misuse problems, are a neglected group at the best of...
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Phil Harris
Nov 2, 20213 min read
Alcohol Recovery and Stigma
A recent qualitative study has identified six strategies that recovering alcoholics use to negotiate social situations and remain sober,...
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Phil Harris
Oct 21, 20203 min read
Demand for Developmentally Informed Prevention Strategies
There are well documented risk factors associated with developing substance use disorder across all age groups. A recent study from IUPUI...
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Phil Harris
Jul 1, 20201 min read
What is Treatment?
Historically we have always been very fixated on modality-or type of therapy- and have always assumed that this is responsible for...
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Phil Harris
Jun 11, 20201 min read
Reach Out 2020 Online Conference for Concerned Others Available on Facebook
I was delighted to be invited to speak at DHI's Concerned Other Conference Reach Out 2020. Despite the challenges of lock down, DHI...
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Phil Harris
Jun 8, 20201 min read
COVID: How is the Pandemic Affecting Drug & Alcohol Consumption Globally?
COVID is impacting on drug and alcohol use globally. One of the first reports to look at international data has just been published. ...
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Phil Harris
May 21, 20203 min read
Buvidal: A One Shot Opiate Replacement Therapy
Lockdown has had a big impact on everyone but especially those who are in receipt of opiate prescribing treatments. Daily administration...
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Phil Harris
Feb 12, 20201 min read
Alcohol Recovery: Is it All That?
A great word I heard recently was anticipointment. This when you find that something you thought would be great turns out to be rubbish....
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Phil Harris
Dec 19, 20191 min read
Pain: Is it a Personality Thing?
Recent advances in neuroscience are unlocking how the major personality traits are linked to neural systems. One personality trait,...
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Phil Harris
Dec 19, 20191 min read
Does Spirituality Assist Recovery?
Spirituality has increasing become an important focus in drug and alcohol recovery. Whilst hard to define and quantify from a research...
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Phil Harris
Dec 12, 20191 min read
DHI: The Vision Project
Throughout 2019, Developing Health & Independence (DHI), have been marking their 20th anniversary as a charity by looking to the future....
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Phil Harris
Sep 5, 20191 min read
Rehabs: What the Latest Research Studies Tell Us About Their Effectiveness?
Rehabs are often believed to ineffective or only as effective as community based treatments. There are a lot of myths about rehabs and...
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Phil Harris
Jun 10, 20191 min read
Dual Diagnosis: Free Certified eLearning
Progress are a consortium of consultant nurses who established a professional forum in supporting practitioners and services users...
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Phil Harris
Jan 16, 20191 min read
Transgender and Addiction Has Been Ignored Too Long
The needs of trans gendered populations are rarely explored in the wider research base on addictions. Findings have produced a great...
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Phil Harris
Dec 2, 20183 min read
Young People In Trouble: Cannabis or Character?
More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States. In other parts of the world, cannabis use has become almost as...
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Phil Harris
Nov 21, 20181 min read
New Psychoactive Substances: Are the New Drug Laws Working?
I remain ambivalent about drug laws. So the emergence of "legal highs" or "new psychoactive substances" as they are now called has...
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Phil Harris
Oct 5, 20183 min read
Overdose and Depression Linked
In my first book-Drug Induced- I demonstrated that opiate overdose was rarely ever linked to drug purity. Reviewing research and...
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Phil Harris
Sep 27, 20184 min read
Is Addiction a Virus?
New research from an international team led by Oxford University's Department of Zoology and the National-Kapodistrian University of...
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