DS Daily - 4th March 2010 |
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Tackling problem drug use
Without an evaluative framework for the Strategy as a whole, the NAO is not able to conclude positively on value for money. Executive Summary - Full Report [National Audit Office, UK]
Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into the cocaine trade
Response to the publication of the Committee’s report, Martin Barnes, Chief Executive of [DrugScope, UK]
Parliamentary Cocaine Trade Report - Good, bad and downright ugly
Whilst there is some limited useful content and recommendations, the report overall is desperately disappointing and unlikely to impress or please anyone [TDPF, UK]
A Review of the Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Among School-Aged Children
Prenatal cocaine exposure-related impairments are reliably reported in sustained attention and behavioral self-regulation among school-aged children [Pediatrics, USA]
Addiction Today evidence leads to more rehab treatment / funds
Among the recommendations in the Home Affairs Committee Report on the Cocaine Trade are two influenced by the Addiction Recovery Foundation [Addiction Today, UK]
A sad end to real teen rehab
The UK's only residential rehab centre for young people worked where other schemes failed. But short-termism has closed it - Kathy Gyngell [Comment, Guardian, UK]
2nd anthrax case confirmed in Dumfries and Galloway
A second anthrax case has been confirmed in Dumfries and Galloway, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Scotland to 25 [SDF, UK]
North East Alcohol Academy workshops
Alcohol and Older People and Cocaethylene - downloads available [Alcohol Policy, UK]
Police £400,000 drugs raids
Police believe they have smashed a major drugs production operation following a series of raids in the Taunton and Wellington area over the past week [This is the West Country, UK]
Students backing alcohol price plan
Students have thrown their weight behind plans for minimum pricing on alcohol, but asked Ministers to think again about raising the age for off-sales to 21 [The Herald, Scotland, UK]
Guernsey could outlaw 'legal high' mephedrone
Authorities on the Channel Island of Guernsey have told BBC News they are considering classifying the synthetic stimulant mephedrone as a class A drug [BBC, UK]
OxyContin more abused than crack: rehab centre
OxyContin, the widely prescribed painkiller, has overtaken crack cocaine as Ottawa's most commonly abused drug, a residential drug treatment centre says [CBC News, Canada]
Drug Abuse Coverage Leaves Out the Science
How the media covers harm reduction [Addiction Inbox, USA]
Australia’s National Drug Strategy: Beyond 2009
Response to the Consultation Paper [Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association, Australia]