Yes. There was a good article on funding residential treatment in Drink and Drug News by Richard Phillips of Phoenix House. I think he's a member of this list. I think I posted the details to this list when the article came out - if not let me know and I'll post the address for the on-line version. Basically, there have been serious problems with residential treatment in the UK since the enactment of Community Care - some of us who were there at the time, warned that it would happen.
It seems to me that the National Treatment Agency, instead of going around bullying local action teams into rounding up everyone into the Methadone Corral (cue Rawhide theme: "don't try to understand 'em, rope 'em, throw 'em brand 'em".) they could concentrate on exactly these sorts of issues. The NTA is set up as a special health authority (like the Maudesley) so, in theory, it would be well placed to change the funding system. I can see no reason in law, why these types of service which almost always act as a national - as opposed to a local or regional - resource can't be funded by top-slicing the money, since it all ultimately comes from central government anyway.
Oh sorry! Yes I can! There's the political dogma that agencies only ever perform well if they're forced to strip to the waist and get in the ring with other agencies and beat the crap out of them!
Rowdy Yates
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Scottish Addiction Studies
Department of Applied Social Science
University of Stirling
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From: Therapeutic Communities on behalf of Anthony Slater
Sent: Fri 11/24/2006 12:37 PM
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Subject: Re: TCs in the News
Rowdy, and all.............
Thanks for this information, it is very interesting and creates a thought
that, maybe it could be possible for drug treatment communities in the UK to
join forces, as a pressure group?
If I recall correctly, there is some good published work regarding the
benefits, cost effectiveness of therapeutic community approaches, and so
forth.
Phoenix, the Ley community and others provide treatment and recovery
opportunities that reach far beyond the low threshold, approaches mentioned
in the Times article.
It seems a terrible waste of resources, that residential treatment places
are so under occupied, as the article suggests.
I would be interested to hear what other list members, may think about
possible strategies to respond to the situation.
Best wishes,
Anthony Slater.
Director, Phoenix Haga.
President, E.F.T.C.
Folkenborgveien 198,
1850 Mysen, Norway.
Tel: + 47 69 89 82 50.
Fax: + 47 69 89 82 51.
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http://www.phoenixhouse.no
http://www.eftc-europe.com
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From: Therapeutic Communities
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rowdy Yates
Sent: 24. november 2006 10:38
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Subject: TCs in the News
Not actually TCs but it's almost heartening that the financial problems
facing TCs and other residential options in the UK have made it out of the
"trade journals" and into mainstream media like The Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2469095.html
Rowdy Yates
Senior Research Fellow
Scottish Addiction Studies
Department of Applied Social Science
University of Stirling
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