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REGULARS
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NEWS
Scotland’s first heroin-assisted treatment;
almost 70 per cent of 20-year-olds gamble
15 LETTERS & OPINION
What’s the meaning of harm reduction?
16 REVIEWS
The restorative power of walking
25 COMMENT
Sobriety more than just a ‘lifestyle choice’
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Evaluating
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a prison
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DDN looks
back on
another
turbulent year
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What it
means
to spend
Christmas
in rehab
‘Connecting can revise our
response to a world gone mad’
THIS MONTH’S ISSUE went to press on polling day, and we brace
ourselves for the result. It brings to a close months of being pounded
by the same rhetoric without much hope that our opinions count.
The HIT Hot Topics conference (page 8) is familiar with this
sensation. Speakers travel across the world to share frustration
at opportunities for harm reduction being squandered and
governments driven by greed and ignorance. It would be easy for
any one of us to think our voice didn’t matter – but actually it does,
how seemingly insignificant the context. Against a backdrop of
world problems, ideas were sparked and it was heartening to realise
that the thought of connecting – with ourselves and each other –
can revise our response to a world gone mad.
There’s plenty in this issue that we hope will connect with you,
not least the deeply personal stories from those finding their way
through prison and treatment. And in response to your requests
for more information on problem gambling, we’ve compiled an
in-depth guide (centre-page pull-out) to help you support anyone
affected by this devastating addiction.
We hope you have the festive season
you wish for and we’ll see you back in print
on 3 February. Please keep in touch!
Claire Brown, editor
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