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![Fergus McNeill on desistance, and desistance supporting communities [18 minutes]](images/video_thumbs/fergus6.jpg)
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Fergus says that focussing on 'human capital' is too crude. He says he respects criminal programmes and the evidence behind them, but that the findings got conflated with public service managerialism.
Fergus says that focussing on 'human capital' is too crude. He says he respects criminal programmes and the evidence behind them, but that the findings got conflated with public service managerialism.
John describes that supervised injecting liberates clinicians with their patients, and helps work with people otherwise considered beyond help. John talks about important bits of recovery brought about by enabling change.
The reality of recovery expectations in a difficult ecomony
John suggests the disease model works for people at the level of explanation, but at the 'street level' it is pernicious.
John says that he does not like the view that people are 'living on a knife edge'
Nick describes the background of a conference he convened with Rudy Vuchinich on behavioural economics and its relevance to addiction, and the book that arose from this conference. He also talks about Alcoholics Anonymous and how its benefits could be applied to secular mutual-aid groups. He then references the work of Keith Humphreys on self-help groups.
Joy says that there is a need for minimum standards, and people working with drug users need to have a theoretical grounding and competencies. She says this needs to be underpinned with an understanding of the value and nature of relationship. There has to be an honesty and a valuing of strengths as well as deficits.
Joy says that if communities could resolve their own problems they would have done it by now
Joy shares memories of working with women in Scotland. She talks about the complexities of families tackling drug use and the need for children to be free to behave like children
Julian describes in detail his view of the contradictions inherent in the approach we take to working with drug users in society
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