DS Daily - 24th August 2010 |
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The Times and Sunday Times
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Extreme social stigma holds back drug recovery
The extreme stigma attached to drug addiction represents a massive obstacle to rehabilitation and recovery; hindering access to treatment, securing work and housing and rejoining society, and lasting for very long periods of time [UK Drug Policy Commission]
Addicts need a reason to get better
Cameron’s radical drug policy is all very well, but addicts need a reason to get better ... The splash in The Times today, and a Telegraph report, describe a “radical” new strategy from the Government on drugs. Actually, the only real news is that Theresa May’s department, the home office, will keep control of policy and not Iain Duncan Smith at the department of work and pensions - Andrew M Brown [Telegraph, UK]
We need to be more ambitious in the war on drugs, says minister
Crime prevention minister says government needs new approach if it is to succeed in getting users free of addiction [Guardian, UK]
From hopelessness to action: moving addicts into recovery
Response to home office drugs consultation [Addiction Today, UK]
Warning over online ‘Valium’
An alert has been issued over an unlicensed Russian drug that is being bought on the internet [The Herald, Scotland, UK]
Orkney drug-takers 'choosing mephedrone'
Mephedrone has emerged as "the substance of choice" among young drug takers on Orkney, according to police [BBC, UK]
Alcohol doubles breast cancer risk, scientists warn
Women drinking just seven units a week – half the recommended safe level – have a much increased chance of developing lobular cancer, compared to those who don’t drink at all [Daily Express, UK]
Reprieve for drivers and country pubs as plans to halve drink driving limit abandoned
Plans to cut the drink-drive limit by almost half are set to be shelved [Daily Mail, UK]
Mountjoy zero drugs policy working - Governor
A range of new security measures have also been introduced to enforce the policy [RTE News, Ireland]
RCMP and the truth about safe injection sites
The Mounties were set to publicly acknowledge the benefits of projects like the Insite facility. Then they backed away [Maclean’s Magazine, Canada]
The Harper government and the Insite flim-flam
Many of the comments under John Geddes’ astonishing story about the RCMP’s protracted attempts to make up new “facts” about Vancouver’s Insite safe-injection centre suggest readers are having trouble understanding what, precisely, went on here [Maclean’s Magazine, Canada]
Guide to Developing and Managing Syringe Access Programs
This manual offers practice, suggestions and considerations rooted in harm reduction - an approach to drug use that promotes and honors the competence of drug users to protect themselves, their loved ones, and their communities and the belief that drug users have a right to respect, health and life-saving sterile injection equipment [The Harm Reduction Coalition, USA]
Painkillers such as Percocet can push everyday people into risky addiction
One government study released last month found that the share of substance abuse treatment admissions involving prescription narcotics increased more than fourfold between 1998 and 2008, from 2.2 to 9.8 percent [Washington Post, USA]
Mexico sees sense in war on drugs
The Mexican president has finally realised that the legalisation debate could offer his country a better future [Guardian, UK]
Review of the cost of CCCC drug and alcohol services
Final report recommendations [VAADA , Australia]
Massive dollar, human costs of alcohol
A major study of the impact of alcohol misuse in Australia has put the annual cost of excessive drinking at $36 billion, along with a massive human toll [The Age, Australia]
Alcohol Law Reform
Cabinet paper: Alcohol law reform [Ministry of Justice, New Zealand]
New Zealand proposes new rules on alcohol sales
Only those over 20 - up from 18 - will be allowed to buy alcohol from shops [BBC, UK]
Drug World News
[Paul Cook]