Pathways to Recovery contd.

Concerns about increasing levels of ‘drug-related crime’ have led to innovative interdisciplinary attempts to develop services and interventions aimed at encouraging and enabling individuals to reduce or end their use of drugs. Workers from health, addiction and criminal justice services work together to provide interventions that preoccupy academic and practitioner researchers in attempts to establish ‘what works’ in reducing drug-related offending behaviour. However, this emphasis on ‘coerced treatment’ fails to take account of ‘recovery’ as a long-term and ongoing process.

Pathways to Recovery will seek to establish what exactly we mean by recovery. Is ceasing to use illicit drugs enough or does recovery infer something more? What are we prepared to pay for recovery? Are the services we have able to meet the current need and our aspirations?

We are concerned that the concept of recovery is simply being lost through the drive to control offending through the management of alcohol and drug misuse. Pathways to Recovery is a series of linked seminars. Each seminar will be recorded and uploaded to an on-line radio and the transcriptions will be used to construct an edited book on recovery.

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Pathways to Recovery is sponsored by the:
Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness

and presented by the:
Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and Scottish Addiction Studies.