DS Daily - 4th June 2010

Risk management

What it means for the domestic violence and the substance misuse sectors [LDAN, UK]

New self help website for cocaine and alcohol users

The OASIS website tests will give you a score and recommendations based on this score as well as tips to reduce the harms associated with using either of these substances [OASIS, UK]

Addiction, Self-responsibility and the Importance of Choice

One of the central facets of addiction is the unwillingness to take responsibility. Without exercising the all-important watershed of self-responsibility, breaking the compulsive cycle that leads to addictive behavior is all but impossible [Psychology Today]

Recovery Advice forum

This forum is intended to be an inclusive, safe, and positive environment where peers in various stages of recovery and in different recovery traditions (or none) can turn to each other for mutual support [Recovery Advice forum]

It's not what you say, but why

I’ve got another TED conference talk for you today, this one is Simon Sinek talking about “How great leaders inspire action” [Injecting Advice, UK]

NTA e-updates service

Please complete the form below and tick the boxes to indicate what you would like to receive [NTA, UK]

Economist posters ask public 'Where do you stand?'

Ads aim to engage with audience by asking views on legalising drugs, trading human organs and prisoners' voting rights [Guardian, UK]

Welsh parents warned on under-15s alcohol consumption

Issuing new guidance, chief medical officer Dr Tony Jewell said alcohol harmed a child's physical development [BBC, UK]

Alcohol – the new opium of the masses?

Alcohol related damage in the UK runs to tens of billions of pounds a year so each middle class wine drinking tax payer is paying thousands of pounds in taxation to cover this. Most would surely agree that a small hike in the costs of alcohol that significantly reduced overall alcohol consumption and health damage would make economic sense [David Nutt's blog]

Prevention and Evaluation Resources Kit (PERK)

This manual compiles basic but evidence-based prevention principles, planning rules and evaluation tips [EMCDDA]

Treatment of illicit drug use at individual level

This section summarises evidence about the effect of the most common treatments offered to illicit drug users [EMCDDA]

Review of Methadone Treatment Protocol: Call for Submissions

[Health Service Executive, Ireland]

Protection from illicit drugs – a child rights issue

Protecting children from illicit drugs is not an option for State Parties to the Convention of the Rights of the Child. It is an obligation. This is the conclusion in a report that was presented at the World Forum Against Drugs in Stockholm [Alcohol Drugs and Development, Norway / Sweden]

Forum Syd Sweden addresses alcohol and development

Alcohol is now recognised as a strategic development issue in Forum Syd, Sweden, according to a decision taken in the general assembly of the Forum [Alcohol Drugs and Development, Norway / Sweden]

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - United States, 2009

Priority health-risk behaviors, which are behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among youth and adults, often are established during childhood and adolescence, extend into adulthood, and are interrelated and preventable [CDC, USA]