DS Daily - 16th December 2011 |
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Tackling troubled families
Plans to radically transform the lives of the country's most troubled families were today announced by the Prime Minister David Cameron and Communities Secretary Eric Pickles | Communities and Local Government, UK
Monitoring and evaluation of family intervention services and projects between February 2007 and March 2011
This report provides the latest monitoring evidence on families working with a family intervention between February 2007 and 31 March 2011. The findings presented are based on families referred to family interventions in 159 local authorities. In addition statistical modelling (logistic regression) was used to look at the factors associated with successful and unsuccessful outcomes | Department of Education, UK
DrugScope responds to new government programme to support ‘troubled families’
DrugScope is deeply concerned about growing evidence of disinvestment in substance misuse projects that are already working with and in communities to tackle some of the issues being discussed today, particularly those working with young people and their families. Continued investment in drug and alcohol treatment services is vital for achieving a range of government policy objectives, including supporting families, improving public health and reducing crime and re-offending | DrugScope, UK
Troubled families
Video - The Prime Minister set out the Government's plans to turn around the lives of the country's 120,000 most troubled families. Prime Minister's speech | Number 10, UK
FactCheck - where will the money for Cameron's problem family crusade come from?
Mr Cameron is waving £448m in front of local authorities as an incentive to sort out the problem families of the parish. But as the Department for Education’s figures show, he may have underestimated the total cost to the tune of half a billion pounds. Plus, without ring fencing the money, or providing more detail around its distribution, the questions that remains is – what other local services will suffer? | Channel 4, UK
Will the Family Drug and Alcohol Court survive?
The court gets results - but funding cuts put it under threat. Evaluation report (Legal Action Group) on the work of FDAC | Guardian, UK
Public Stigma Against Drug Users Must Change
A drugs charity insists that public stigma against recovering addicts must change if people want to see a difference in society | Dumfries Standard, UK
The crime costs of the war on drugs
New Count the Costs briefing on the crime costs of the war on drugs | Count the Costs
North East Alcohol event presentations
On the 21st October 2011, a joint Alcohol Academy and Balance event was held for alcohol leads in the North East. Selected presentations are now available | Alcohol Academy, UK
Fears over 'harmful' fake alcohol on sale across the UK
Officials say they are extremely concerned about the number of fake bottles being found on sale in off-licences across the UK | BBC, UK
Minister urges public to be part of the solution to rough sleeping this Christmas
Housing Minister Grant Shapps has urged people across the country to help solve rough sleeping this Christmas by calling local hotlines if they see someone sleeping on the pavement in their neighbourhood | Communities and Local Government, UK
Amphetamine: a European Union perspective in the global context
This joint publication with the European Police Agency, Europol, is an in-depth study on the illicit market in amphetamine - Download - Press release | EMCDDA
Code of practice on the sale and display of alcohol in mixed trading premises
Submission regarding review of the code of practice on the sale and display of alcohol in mixed trading premises | Alcohol Action Ireland
Dutch to ban hash sale to foreigners
The reputation of the Netherlands as the go-to country for a legal joint will begin to vanish like a puff of smoke next year as sales to foreigners of cannabis and hashish in coffee shops are banned | Irish Times
Iran: Surge of secret executions for drug offences must end
This year has seen a dramatic rise in the number of people – many impoverished – who are executed for drug offences in Iran. Report: Addicted to Death: Executions for Drug Offences in Iran | Amnesty International
Illicit drug related emergency department visits vary by metropolitan area
Information collected from eleven metropolitan areas including Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Miami (Dade County and Fort Lauderdale Division), Minneapolis, New York (Five Boroughs Division), Phoenix, San Francisco, and Seattle | SAMHSA, USA
Scientific Standards for Studies on Modified Risk Tobacco Products
Smoking-related diseases kill more Americans than alcohol, illegal drugs, murder and suicide combined. The passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gave the FDA authority to regulate "modified risk tobacco products" (MRTPs), tobacco products that are either designed or advertised to reduce harm or the risk of tobacco-related disease - Download | FDA, USA
First overdose antidote trial begins
Australia's first program to train illicit drug users, their families and friends to reverse overdoses is being rolled out in Canberra | ABC News, Australia
Australia’s first youth Indigenous drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility
Bunjilwarra is the first Australian drug and alcohol rehabilitation service solely dedicated to helping young Aboriginal people | FARE, Australia
Pregnancy warning on alcohol products
Alcohol Healthwatch is pleased that, after more than a decade of dithering, there will finally be a pregnancy warning on all alcohol products in Australia and New Zealand | Scoop, New Zealand
Opium cultivation up significantly in Myanmar and Lao PDR, UNODC warns
UN officials say food insecurity, ethnic conflicts and poverty responsible for surge | UNODC
UNODC chief discusses drug and crime challenges with Thai Royal Princess
UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov met with Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand as she led a delegation to the reconvened twentieth session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which was held in Vienna on 12 and 13 December | UNODC