Reports March 2012

 

Substance misuse interventions within the young people’s secure estate

Guiding principles for transferring commissioning responsibility from the YJB to local partnership areas | NTA, UK

Drug Policy Guide

The Guide is designed to assist national policy makers in the process of developing effective, humane and appropriate drug policies and programmes for their country. Each chapter of the Guide introduces a specific type of policy challenge, analyses existing evidence and experiences of different countries, and presents advice and recommendations for developing effective policy responses | International Drug Policy Consortium

Better Future for Families

The Government must harness family-based treatments if it is serious about tackling the UK's addiction epidemic, according to a major new Report | Addaction, UK

Statement of evidence - methoxetamine

Letter of advice from the chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Les Iversen, to the Minister of State for Crime Prevention and Antisocial Behaviour Reduction on the council's recommendation to treat methoxetamine as a Schedule 1 drug | Home Office, UK

Home Secretary's response to the ACMD's advice on methoxetamine

The Government will introduce a temporary class drug order on methoxetamine following the ACMD’s initial advice. Download response | Home Office, UK

JSNA support pack for drug and alcohol commissioners

This document outlines key principles that local areas might consider when developing plans for an integrated recovery system | NTA, UK

Alcohol consumption in the European Union

Consumption, harm and policy approaches | World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

Scottish Crime and Justice Survey: Drug Use

The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) is a large-scale continuous survey measuring people's experience and perceptions of crime in Scotland. The survey is based on 13,000 in-home face-to-face interviews with adults (aged 16 or over) living in private households in Scotland | Scottish Government, UK

National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times - Publication Summary

Full Reports - Data Tables ISD Scotland, UK

NTA submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee drugs policy review

The NTA recently submitted evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee drugs policy review 2012. Supplementary information: Prison treatment - General - Funding diagram | NTA, UK

Supporting adult family members of people with drug problems in Scotland

This report highlights some of the key issues that have emerged from a study looking at the extent and nature of support currently provided for adult family members affected by a relative’s drug problem. This mapping exercise was part of a UK-wide project, but the findings presented here focus solely on the data collected relating to Scotland | UKDPC

Illicit Drug Use and Property Offending among Police Detainees

The primary objective of the current study was to examine whether the frequency of recent illicit drug use is related to higher levels of offending among police detainees in Australia. In particular, the study investigated whether the frequency of property offending escalates with offenders’ self-reported illicit drug use | Australian Institute of Criminology

Alcohol strategy

The alcohol strategy sets out proposals to crackdown on our 'binge drinking' culture, cut the alcohol fuelled violence and disorder that blights too many of our communities, and slash the numb

Government response report on alcohol guidelines

The Government has published its response to the Science and Technology Committee Report on Alcohol Guidelines | Department of Health, UK

Guide on Estimating Requirements for Substances under International Control

The Guide is meant to assist Governments of countries with low levels of consumption of controlled substances in calculating their requirements so that they can then submit to INCB estimates and assessments that accurately reflect those requirements. It could also be useful for Governments of countries in which the consumption levels for some substances are disproportionately high | INCB

National Treatment Indicators Report, 2012

The inaugural National Treatment Indicators report - prepared by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse collaboratively with the National Treatment Indicators Working Group - is intended as a first step toward addressing the current gap in substance use treatment data at the national level | Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

Naltrexone Sustained Release Preparations ( Injectible & Implants)

In response to the ongoing debate regarding the use of naltrexone implants to treat opioid dependence, the Australian National Council on Drugs has released the following statement and fact sheet | ANCD, Australia

Linking data on drug misusers and drug-misusing offenders

This is the first report using the Drug Data Warehouse. It provides information about this new resource and summarises the findings from initial, descriptive analysis | Home Office, UK

Homelessness in Scotland: the 2012 Commitment

Scotland’s 2012 homelessness commitment, created under the
Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the Act”), entitles all unintentionally
homeless people to settled accommodation by the end of this year Download | Scottish Parliament, UK

New Report: Cocaine Smuggling in 2010

Over the past year, we have worked with the intelligence community to compile a picture of the latest cocaine trafficking trends based on the data we have available. The most recent report - Cocaine Smuggling in 2010 | ONDCP, USA

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

Including Alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement | Ministry of Justice, UK

The EU Drugs Strategy

26th Report of Session 2010–12. European Union Committee | House of Lords, UK

Putting Full Recovery First - the Recovery Roadmap

This document, Putting Full Recovery First, outlines our roadmap for building a new treatment system based on our commitments made in the Drug Strategy: to restrict the supply of drugs; to reduce the demand for drugs; and to support individuals to be free of dependence | Home Office, UK

IAPT positive practice guide for working with people who use drugs and alcohol

This guide seeks to assist IAPT teams and substance misuse services to work confidently and inclusively with those who have drink or drug problems and common mental health problems | National Treatment Agency and DrugScope

UN health agency unveils new data to help countries reduce deaths from tobacco use

Tobacco use is responsible for five million or 12 per cent of all deaths of adults above the age of 30 globally each year, according to a United Nations report | United Nations

New Adfam guides: Surviving the Transition

In response to a changing and challenging environment for family support services, Adfam has published 2 new guides to help organisations survive the financial, administrative and political transition. Surviving the Transition: Organisational Health and Surviving the Transition:Local Structures and Networks | Adfam, UK

The Forgotten Carers: Support for adult family members affected by a relative’s drug problems

This briefing provides an overview of the key findings and implications of a study investigating the extent and nature of support provided to adult family members affected by a relative’s drug problems | UKDPC

Adult Family Members Affected by a Relative’s Substance Misuse

A UK-wide survey of services for adult family members | UKDPC

Adult Family Members Affected by a Relative’s Substance Misuse

Review of Policy and Guidance Documents across the UK | UKDPC

Adult Family Members Affected by a Relative’s Substance Misuse

Qualitative Interviews with Commissioners and Service Providers in England and Scotland | UKDPC

Increasing the voluntary and community sector's involvement in Integrated Offender Management

The initiative helped foster positive links between the voluntary and statutory sector bodies. VCS bodies were felt to have successfully addressed specific gaps in offender provision - Summary - Full report | Home Office, UK

A definition of drug mules for use in a European context

This latest EMCDDA Thematic paper explores whether a common definition of ‘drug mules’ can be developed in the European context and assesses the implications of this for data gathering and future research - Download | EMCDDA

Social Justice

This Government’s strategy for Social Justice is about giving individuals and families facing multiple disadvantages the support and tools they need to turn their lives around - Download | Department for Work and Pensions, UK

2009–10 report on drug use among police detainees

Monitoring report no.17 - Download | Australian Institute of Criminology

Statutory Homelessness

October - December Quarter 2011, England | Communities and Local Government, UK

General Lifestyle Survey, 2010

Adults aged 45 and over were three times as likely as those aged under 45 to drink almost every day - Download | Office for National Statistics, UK

Evaluation of Alcohol Arrest Referral Pilot Schemes (Phase 1)

Overall, the intervention did not appear to reduce re-arrests for this client group. Two schemes saw a statistically significant reduction in alcohol consumption but it was not possible to assess how much this reduction was attributable to the intervention as there was no control group - Download | Home Office, UK

Evaluation of Alcohol Arrest Referral Pilot Schemes (Phase 2)

Overall, the intervention appeared to be ineffective for this client group in terms of reducing re-arrest but there was some limited evidence of reduced alcohol consumption among the intervention group - Download | Home Office, UK

Summary of findings from two evaluations of Home Office Alcohol Arrest Referral pilot schemes

Home Office Research Report 60 summarises the evaluation findings of two phases of Alcohol Arrest Referral (AAR) pilots operating between 2007 and 2010 in twelve police forces. Brief interventions to attempt to tackle alcohol-related offending were offered to adults, arrested and deemed by a police officer to be under the influence of alcohol - Download | Home Office, UK

VAADA State Budget Position Paper 2012/13

As the peak body on alcohol and other drug issues in Victoria, VAADA has undertaken consultation with the Victorian AOD sector to determine their views on priorities as we move into the new financial year | VAADA, Australia

Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults

A Report of the | Surgeon General, USA

National Drugs Strategy 2009-16: Implementation of Actions

Progress Report End 2011 | Department of Health, Ireland

Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Bill

2nd Report, 2012 (Session 4): Stage 1 Report on the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Bill | Scottish Parliament

Review of the Alcohol Sponsorship Guidlines for Scotland

The review evaluated knowledge of, and compliance with, the Alcohol Sponsorhsip Guidelines for Scotland, with a focus on identifying best practice and examining whether there is a need to enhance and improve the Guidelines to ensure they remain fit for purpose | Scottish Government, UK

Review of the Alcohol Sponsorship Guidlines for Scotland - Research Findings

A summary of the review of knowledge of, and compliance with, the Alcohol Sponsorhsip Guidelines for Scotland, with a focus on identifying best practice and examining whether there is a need to enhance and improve the Guidelines | Scottish Government, UK

EMCDDA Budget 2012

Each year, a preliminary draft budget is presented by the Centre's Director to the Management Board, which may modify the draft before adopting it and submitting it to the European Commission - Download | EMCDDA

Australian crime

Facts & figures: 2011 | Australian Institute of Criminology