"There's a big tag on my head": exploring barriers to treatment seeking with women who use methamphetamine in Sydney, Australia.

Background: Australia has a high prevalence of regular use of methamphetamine. While half of people who use methamphetamine regularly are women, they make up only one third of people seeking treatment for methamphetamine use disorder. There is a lack of qualitative research into the facilitators and barriers to treatment for women who use methamphetamine regularly.

Sudden Dignity in the Act of Reading.

This essay argues that it is literature, and the serious reading of literature, which offers a sudden emotional experience of human dignity, realized anew through the care of its language. Case histories are provided from the work of The Reader, a charitable organization bringing live shared reading to hard-to-reach communities. The research was conducted by the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS), at the University of Liverpool.

Shared Reading: assessing the intrinsic value of a literature-based health intervention.

Public health strategies have placed increasing emphasis on psychosocial and arts-based strategies for promoting well-being. This study presents preliminary findings for a specific literary-based intervention, Shared Reading, which provides community-based spaces in which individuals can relate with both literature and one another. A 12-week crossover design was conducted with 16 participants to compare benefits associated with six sessions of Shared Reading versus a comparison social activity, Built Environment workshops.