Alcohol Policy UK podcast: MOCAM, and the Michael Stone Inquiry (apuk04)

Here is the first podcast in a new series of twice-monthly shows focussing on alcohol harm reduction news, interesting practice and policy developments.  Mike Ward joins Libby Ranzetta for a discussion about Models of Care for Alcohol Misusers (MOCAM) and the implications for substance misuse treatment from the Michael Stone Inquiry.

Show notes

• 00.00 Intro: music by Kaimoko; please get in touch (using comments at the end of this post or voicemail using the Mobatalk panel on the right of this page or an audio comment using WaxMail, or email.

• 01.17 In the news: Launch of the screening and brief interventions 'trailblazers'; foetal alcohol syndrome; links to AA membership and reduced rates of violent crime.

• 08.29 MOCAM: background to its development; consultation process; Alcohol Concern's Commission in the Future of Alcohol Services and 'tier zero'; lack of focus on carers; categorisation of drinkers; the four tiers of interventions; ANARP; standards and frameworks; social services commissioning role; DANOS ; what difference will MOCAM make?

• 19.11 Michael Stone Inquiry (part 1, part 2): mental health bill that got axed; Christopher Clunis Inquiry; Anthony Hardy Inquiry - the 'Camden Ripper'' ; Stone's drug treatment; Stone's alcohol use; familiar themes in the inquiry conclusions; are people with personality disorder treatable?; alcohol treatment within drug services

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