Dear Clive, Alan and all,
I am not volunteering to help (I have too many other commitments) but I
would like to express support for disabled drug and ex-drug users whether
or not their disability is related to their drug use. I suspect there is a
large overlap with those with a mental illness disability ... another
group that suffer discrimination as well as impairment.
I hope that these groups will be included both in research and in devising
policies.
I hope many of you will come to the Rad Stats conference and look forward
to seeing you there.
Best wishes
Jane Galbraith
PS to Clive, might you have an interesting article on LOS and disability
to submit to the Radical Statistics newsletter?
>
>
> Dear Clive,
>
> An area I have done much peer advocacy and activist/ campaign work in- and
> continue to do so despite my retirement due to ( non drug related
> disability) is drug users, especially opioid, cocaine, crack users,
> carer's and
> family's although our organisation's remit is to act as a central peer
> led hub
> for drug user activist's and group's, service users and groups,
> professional's, carer's, and other's who agree with our aspiration's and
> wish to
> contribute to the human right's, harm reduction, empowerment and support
> of
> their peer's and community's.
>
> Drug users- are just as vulnerable to the effect's of age, ill health,
> disease, affliction, disability, and age as any other demographically
> defined
> group. Further they experience discrimination, exclusion, marginalisation,
> stigmatisation and abuse.
>
> There - since circa 1998- although the seed's were sown in the 1980's- has
> been a growing 'user group' / 'service user' group and activist community
> at micro and national/ transnational level of such groups and any engage
> as
> well as facilitate privelaged peer group access- as well as providing
> advocacy services, harm reduction advice, contribute to policy and
> practice,
> etc, as a 'senior activist' we would welcome the support of rad stat's
> and
> like minded individual's to help deconstruct much of the statistical tosh
> and
> the methodology used to create it that serves to define us as both
> subject's and object's of discourse, knowledge, power & control.
>
> Many activist's come from surprising background's - including academic
> ones- and we are an example of 'autonomous self organising and
> organisation'.
>
> If anyone is interested in this field and/ or would like to learn more
> about this grass root's movement- please do not hesitate to get in touch
> and
> I'll give details of web link's etc, that will give some idea of the
> scale,
> scope, aspiration's and diversity of views that are incarnate in our
> movement( s ) .
>
> Best wishes: Alan Joyce.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 03/02/2011 19:09:04 GMT Standard Time,
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>
> I'm off to sunny Newport tomorrow for a meeting of the steering group I
> have been involved in for tree years now! Part of the discussion will be
> future work, I would love to see far more work on disability and
> institutions, what else needs researching?
>
>
> I was amazed we have been commended by the RSS!
>
>
> http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=15386
>
>
>
> What is the LOS
> • The first big survey to look at how barriers can stop people
> with
> impairments from living their lives the way they want to
> • Barriers are things that may stop people living their lives
> the
> way they want to, or stop them doing the everyday things they want to do.
> • Barriers include things like being treated unfairly, or not
> getting enough support to do the things they want
> The most important things we found out
> • 26 adults out of every 100 were disabled according to the
> Disability Discrimination Act definition of disability.
> • 29 adults out of every 100 had impairments.
>
>
> Live long and prosper!
>
>
>
> Clive
>
>
>
> Clive Durdle
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>
> I wish to develop the Renaissance concept of Opera, where people work
> together closely to resolve the issues they face, from a participatory,
> equal,
> just, sustainable and whole system perspective.
>
>
>
> Clive Durdle MSc BA (Econ) FCIH Dip Soc. Studs
>
> Durdle Door Consulting
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