DS Daily - 7th May 2010 |
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Attitudes towards alcohol: segmentation series report 1
This report, published by NWPHO, is part of a series of four reports utilising segmentation tools to discuss attitudes towards alcohol. Together the reports aim to synthesise the different data sources that identify at-risk groups as well as to provide an insight into related motivations and attitudes. This report concentrates on attitudes and motivations in relation to alcohol, highlighting which groups and types of groups are most likely to have specific attitudes and/or motivations [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
Alcohol consumption: segmentation series report 2
This report concentrates on consumption, highlighting which groups and types of groups are most likely to drink in certain patterns [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
Alcohol-attributable hospital admissions: segmentation series report 3
This report concentrates on hospital admission relating to alcohol in order to highlight which groups and types of populations are most at risk [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
Alcohol pen portraits: segmentation series report 4
This report, the final in the series, is a summary document, bringing together the intelligence gathered to provide an in-depth understanding of the groups. The report provides suggestions for the nest steps in developing a truly insightful understanding of the groups through qualitative research [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
Don't blame binge drinking on cheap booze
Supermarket price wars don't fuel binge-drinking – it's ringfencing alcohol from other drugs that's the real problem [Guardian, UK]
Over 50s drugs and alcohol project begins in Norfolk
Norfolk Community Alcohol Services (NORCAS) is using a Big Lottery Fund grant of £396,710 to provide drop-in services for older people [BBC, UK]
Drugs organisation reports huge increase in youth referrals due to mephedrone
Drugs organisation Forum for Action on Substance Abuse and Suicide Awareness (Fasa) has recorded a dramatic rise in its referrals of young people in the past 12 months, due to a surge in the popularity of legal highs such as mephedrone [Children & Young People Now, UK]
The need for reason
Earlier this year, Paul Ormerod and Helen Jackson spotted that a mechanistic and reductionist 'what works' approach to policy had taken over whole swathes of it, eroding the exercise of choice and judgement. Even though the empirical evidence be incomplete, narrowly based or totally contrary to experiential knowledge, they noted, its orthodoxy is such that it is what counts. For an explanation of Labour's dysfunctional drugs policy, we need look no further. The Conservatives' new drugs policy will be a testing ground for the exceptional political determination it will take to overcome this mindset- Kathy Gyngell [Centre for Policy Studies, UK]
Wales aligns with England on fag machine ban
Cigarette vending machines are due to be banned in Welsh pubs in October 2011, in line with England [Morning Advertiser, UK]
Preventing Substance Abuse During Prom and Graduation Season
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign [ONDCP, USA]
Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Prohibition of Display
A Bill for an Act to amend the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 to provide for a prohibition on the display and sale of bongs and for other purposes [Parliament of Victoria, Australia]
Proposal to remedy NZ's student binge drinking
A unique initiative targeting the culture of student binge drinking in Otago, and focusing on the safety of students, was revealed today at the Alcohol Advisory Council (ALAC) Conference [Scoop, New Zealand]