Hi its good to be back - just wanted to ask for your views -I have just been accepted by a local goverment body to study as an alcohol and drug abuse councilor the course is fully funded and is a 2 year diploma which leads to a full-time employement with goverment initatives- i have also been given the ok to train as a councillor in hppd within the remit and specialise in that area within private and local health practise when the course is completed, my goal in specializing in that area is to help pick up hppd as a condition,rather than let drug induced phycocis be the main tag,and help where i can. my aim will be to formulate a proper diagnostic tool within the hppd remit and nail down the real symptoms as a proper working guide so accurate advice can be given.I have studied exstensivly the litrature online in connection with diagnosis and as you all probably know a fair proportion of it is based on fiction rather than fact,my main aim firstly is to get a concensus from the board on what are the main symptoms 1-10 1 being the worst and so on. i feel that we are the experts on this condition and we have to set the criteria for diagnosis. any feed back would be welcolme.
cheers robbie