On Monday 12 July 2021 Collective Voice hosted a webinar with Dame Carol Black on the second part of her landmark independent review of drugs. We also heard from Rosanna
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Collective Voice members respond to review of drugs
Last Thursday 8th July, the second part of Dame Carol Black’s landmark independent review of drugs was published. The review makes 32 wide-ranging recommendations that, if acted on, would signal
Independent Review advocates bold, new vision for drug addiction and recovery
PRESS RELEASE The second part of Dame Carol Black’s Independent Review of Drugs has been published, making radical recommendations for drug treatment, recovery and prevention and powerfully putting forward the
Collective Voice appoints new Independent Chair
Collective Voice is delighted to announce the appointment of Lea Milligan as its first Independent Chair. Lea is the Chief Executive of mental health research charity MQ. Collective Voice began
Covid limit on support groups to be lifted from 17 May
From Monday 17th May, support groups – which include those supporting people “with, or recovering from, addictions (including alcohol, narcotics or other substance addictions) or addictive patterns of behaviour” –
New research finds link between funding cuts and reduced access to treatment
The research found that local authority funding for drug and alcohol treatment services fell by 27 per cent between 2013 and 2019, removing £212 million from the system. The same
New provisional ONS data shows alcohol deaths at their highest in 20 years
Following the February release of provisional data on deaths from alcohol-specific causes for the first three quarters of 2020, the ONS has now published figures for the final quarter of
We’re looking for a new independent chair
2021 has the potential to be a hugely significant year for the substance misuse treatment field with the imminent publication of a major independent review of drugs, significant structural reforms
PHE’s health improvement functions to move to new “Office for Health Promotion”
The government has set out its structural reforms to the public health system in England, which will see the health improvement functions – including substance misuse – currently housed in
Deaths from alcohol-specific causes rise to record high in 2020
Yesterday’s release of alcohol-specific death statistics for 2019 included provisional data which showed – shockingly – that there were 5,460 deaths from January to September 2020, a 16.4% increase compared
