In an interesting study at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, researchers have found that making people feel guilty about their drinking is likely to make them drink even more rather than less. The effect is even greater in those who are already feeling guilty.

So many efforts to get people to get help, whether in the family or through government sponsored adverts, try and use guilt as a motivator. This study indicates this is not the best way.

Another interesting finding was that most of the subjects considered that they were safe from the risks of binge drinking themselves but considered their friends to be at risk.

Robin

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EAP

I attended a refresher course on Equine Assisted Psychotherapy last weekend.

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I recently attended a workshop run by a fantastic man called Dr Rufus May. Rufus featured in the TV documentary called “The Doctor Who Hears Voices” in which his amazing work is explored.

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MyRecoveryNet

After the sad news that The Recovery Network has had to cease trading and has closed it’s doors to the people it was helping we are relieved to see an alternative site start up to help the same people.

The new site, myrecoverynet.com, has only been up for a couple of days so people are trying to work their way around it still, to see how it works but hopes are high for it.

Robin Lefever

http://myrecoverynet.com

UKESAD is the UK Treatment industry conference held once a year in Kensington. There are plenty of workshops and Presentations from all over the world. We have a lot of representation from the USA but it is also nice to see more and more Europeans coming to the conferenceThe conference runs for three days and is a pretty full programme.

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I had the honour of having lunch today with Mr John Southworth of Southworth Associates.

John has been a leading professional in the addiction field since 1983 and has a particular skill in interventions, a great professional interest of mine also.  As well as facilitating interventions John is also a very accomplished trainer and is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Intervention Specialists (AIS) and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Intervention Specialists Credentialing Board (AISCB)

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Judge Justin Philips is a remarkable Judge.

Judge Phillips is presiding over a new type of court called a Drugs court. This pilot scheme started in 2005 in London and Leeds but has proved so successful that it is shortly to open in Cardiff too.

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