Weekly news - 12th March 2010 |
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NTA Board Meeting - 16 March 2010
Papers for information [National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK]
Reaching Out
Understanding the health attitudes of harder to reach groups in the North West [Our Life, UK]
Hepatitis C
People at risk of having the Hepatitis C virus are being encouraged to come forward for testing as part of a new campaign by [Scottish Government, UK]
MPs debate Health Committee report on alcohol
Kevin Barron MP, Chairman of the Health Select Committee opened a debate in the Commons on the Committee's recent report on alcohol. Gillian Merron, Minister of State, at the Health Department, responded to the debate [Parliament, UK]
VA Faces Challenges in Providing Substance Use Disorder Services
And Is Taking Steps to Improve These Services for Veterans - Summary [GAO, USA]
New Interactive Tobacco Map Launched
Tobacco policy map provides latest data on state smoking laws [Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, USA]
Report reveals drug diversion success
Queensland drug-users experience significant positive outcomes from drug intervention, according to a UQ study in which almost half of the participants reduced drug use following diversionary tactics [University of Queensland, Australia]
Cannabis and mental health - schools resource
A new schools resource has been developed to assist teachers in discussing issues around cannabis use and mental health [Victorian State Government, Department of Health, Australia]
Indigenous Dual Diagnosis Training Project
Training Evaluation Report [Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative, Australia]
Afghanistan Drug Control
Strategy Evolving and Progress Reported, but Interim Performance Targets and Evaluation of Justice Reform Efforts Needed - Summary [GAO, USA]
Call for urgent action to improve coverage of HIV services for injecting drug users
A review carried out by the 2009 Reference Group to the UN on HIV and Injecting Drug Use for the first time quantifies the scale of coverage of HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for injecting drug users (IDUs) worldwide [UNAIDS]
HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe to be under spotlight at Vienna AIDS conference
The rapidly growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe, fuelled primarily by unsafe injecting drug use, will be a topic under the spotlight at the VIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010), to be held in Vienna in July [UNODC]
Commission on Narcotic Drugs opens in Vienna
At its fifty-third session, the Commission will focus on effective ways of raising awareness about the risks of abusing drugs, including cannabis; improving the understanding of drug addiction as a chronic health disorder; and the importance of research and data collection [UNODC]
UNODC Warns of Drug "Health Disaster" in the Developing World
In his address to the 53rd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), which takes place this week in Vienna, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, warned that failure to control drugs will unleash a health disaster in the developing world [UNODC]
Drug control, crime prevention and criminal justice
A Human Rights perspective [UNODC]
Director Kerlikowske Delivers Opening Statement Before the 53rd UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Highlighting the Administration's commitment to reduce drug use and its consequences in the U.S. and around the world at the 53rd Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Opening statement [ONDCP, USA]