Dear colleague,
We are pleased to share with you
this report which concerns itself with the process of change that has been
underway in the city of Salford, concerning the adoption of a
recovery-oriented system of care. The paper contains the observations of
the lead commissioner for drug treatment in Salford on the process of this
change. The paper is influenced by William White’s perspectives on
recovery in Philadelphia and makes observations on their application in the
British context. Finally, there is some discussion of whether this recovery
approach constitutes a ‘paradigm change’ in UK drug policy. The
information provided in this paper was gathered between January 2009 and July
2010.
The methods included 12 initial
unstructured interviews with service users self-defined as ‘in
recovery’, combined with two focus groups with seven service users and
six members of staff. This initial work was then supplemented with three
further focus groups conducted during the summer of 2009, involving 23 front
line staff during the summer and autumn of 2009 and 52 consumer satisfaction
questionnaires conducted prior to Christmas 2009. A further 40 semi-structured
interviews with service users who self-defined as being in recovery were also
concluded during the spring and summer of 2010.
This
article is written by Colin Wisley, Researcher,
Manchester Metropolitan University.
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article, published in Safer
Communities,
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