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LECTURE BY US DRUG POLICY LEADER ON NEW US APPROACH
http://www.fead.org.uk/video295/Professor-A-Thomas-McLellan:-Lecture-at-the-National-Addiction-Centre-UK-March-8th-2010.htmlLast November Drug and Alcohol Findings invited Professor A Thomas McLellan to address a joint meeting of parliamentary drug misuse committees - perhaps a long shot, as Professor McLellan, a highly respected researcher on drug misuse, had been appointed by President Obama as Deputy Director of the US Office of National Drug Control Policy. Later we suggested a public lecture on the same day hosted by the National Addiction Centre (NAC), and asked the Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs (FEAD) run by the Lifeline Project if they would film it and disseminate the video. Amazingly, it all happened.
The lecture delivered on 8 March 2010 is now available at:
http://www.fead.org.uk/video295/Professor-A-Thomas-McLellan:-Lecture-at-the-National-Addiction-Centre-UK-March-8th-2010.htmlIt explains the new directions being taken by US policy to embed addiction treatment in mainstream health and other services and to narrow the gap between need for and access to help. Also available is an insightful interview by the Drink and Drugs News magazine and published under the heading Protagonist of Choice in their edition of 15 March 2010. Read the article at:
http://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/ViewIssue.aspx?mag_id=120In both the messages for Britain are as clear as those for the USA, and they could not have come from a more learned and important figure.
The visit by Professor McLellan was jointly organised by Drug and Alcohol Findings, the Conference Consortium (
http://www.conferenceconsortium.org) and DrugScope (
http://www.drugscope.org.uk). Our thanks to Paddy Costall and Michelle Vatin of the Consortium, Harry Shapiro of DrugScope, and other staff who made it possible, and to Professor Keith Humphreys from the office of Professor McLellan who liaised with the UK and gave practical and other forms of help. Dwayne Simpson of the Texas Institute of Behavioral Research (
http://www.ibr.tcu.edu) lent his considerable support. John Witton and John Strang of the NAC (
http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/departments/?locator=1110) helped organise the lecture and Maggie Rogan of Lifeline (
http://www.lifeline.org.uk) and FEAD (
http://www.fead.org.uk) enthusiastically took up the suggestion of a video record. Brian Iddon MP (
http://www.brianiddon.org.uk), chair of the All Party Parliamentary Drug Misuse Group, hosted the parliamentary reception. Thanks also to Claire Brown and team from Drink and Drugs News (
http://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com) for their interview. Most of all, thanks to Professor McLellan for - in what must have been a hectic period - offering us in the UK the benefit of his new thinking on drug policy.
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Drug and Alcohol Findings is managed by DrugScope, Alcohol Concern and the National Addiction Centre, respectively the two leading UK drug and alcohol information charities and its leading clinical/research centre. The Effectiveness Bank project is supported by the J. Paul Getty Jr. Charitable Trust (
http://www.jpgettytrust.org.uk) and the Pilgrim Trust (
http://www.thepilgrimtrust.org.uk).
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