DS Daily - 28th April 2010 |
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IHRA Liverpool 2010
More news and pictures from the International Harm Reduction Conference in Liverpool [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
Ensuring integrated treatment for people with mental health and substance use problems
The co-existence of mental health and substance use problems, known as dual diagnosis, is common. Integrated care models are vital to provide joined up care [Nursing Times, UK]
Revisiting the AACCE profile in the North West of England Results from NDTMS in 2008/09
One of the central themes of the AACCE hypothesis is that the use of non-opiate substances amongst young people in contact with treatment indicates shifting substance use patterns that will eventually impact on adult services as these individuals mature [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
'Through a harm reduction lens: Civil society engagement in multilateral decision making' report
This report examines the ways in which multilaterals are currently engaging civil society groups working on harm reduction in international policy, including the engagement of leading non-governmental organisations and the involvement of affected communities [IHRA]
Why can’t our politicians come clean on drugs?
What is the single most curable evil afflicting community life in London? The answer is the criminalisation of drug use under the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act [London Evening Standard, UK]
NHS should spend money on patients not drug addicts
It is offensive enough that a nurses’ leader should be considering handing out free heroin to junkies when people, ill through no fault of their own, are under threat of losing their eyesight or even their lives through want of funding for therapeutic drugs [Daily Express, UK]
Sterilisation clinic for addicts comes to UK
Project Prevention claims to have stopped more than 3,000 alcohol and drug addicts from having children - video [BBC, UK]
Project Prevention
Addaction firmly believes that there is no place for Project Prevention in the UK because their practices are morally reprehensible and irrelevant [Addaction, UK]
Should drug addicts be paid to be sterilised?
So far, about 1,200 women and 50 men have accepted money to be sterilised in America. This week, 20 years on, Harris has brought her charity Project Prevention to Britain [Daily Mail, UK]
Joint Op Sees 50kg Mephedrone Seized
Fifty kilograms of a mephedrone derivative with a street value of £500,000 has been seized as a result of a joint operation between the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) and the UK Border Agency (UKBA) [Police Oracle, UK]
Recent suicide attempt strong indicator for residential treatment
In this US study most patients benefited to roughly the same degree from residential and non-residential treatment, but those who had recently attempted suicide responded dramatically better to residential programmes. Print publication 2006 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Police breathalyse children at village disco to stop anti-social behaviour
Drinkers as young as 14 have been barred from village hall events in Broughton, Lincolnshire, because the tests revealed alcohol in their systems [Daily Mail, UK]
The Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010
A Consultation on Tobacco Draft Regulations [Scottish Government, UK]
Effect of Drug Law Enforcement on Drug-Related Violence: Evidence from a Scientific Review
International Centre for Science in Drug Policy released its first report [ICSDP]
Mobilizing Communities and Building Coalitions
The Drug Free Communities Support Program (DFC), created by the Drug Free Communities Act of 1997, is the Nation's leading effort to mobilize communities to prevent youth drug use [ONDCP]
Alcohol among leading health risks that still needs to be addressed
Federal Government urged to consider the burden of alcohol on Australia’s national hospital system [Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation Foundation, Australia]
Targeted Killing of Drug Lords
Traffickers as Members of Armed Opposition Groups and/or Direct Participants in Hostilities’ by Patrick Gallahue, International Yearbook on Human Rights and Drug Policy [International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy]