DS Daily - 19th October 2010 |
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Project Prevention is “exploitative, ethically dubious and morally questionable"
Unlike the United States, we have universal, free health and social care system available to parents and their children. It is a fundamental principle of the NHS constitution that all treatment should be both informed and consensual; we believe that offering cash incentives to often very poor and marginalised people in return for sterilisation runs directly counter to this [DrugScope, UK]
Addicts in the UK offered £200 to be sterilised
A BBC Inside Out London special follows a highly controversial American charity that wants to pay addicts £200 to be sterilised - Midlands - Scotland [BBC, UK]
Scottish response to US sterilisation group explored in BBC documentary
Scottish response to the work of controversial US-based "cash-for contraception" organisation Link opens in new windowProject Prevention is to be explored in a BBC One Scotland documentary [Scottish Drugs Forum, UK]
Media Statement – Don’t give up on children of drug addicts
As a drug prevention charity we don’t believe that sterilising drug users at their most vulnerable is either ethical or effective, and may undermine existing good work in the drug field [Mentor UK]
Project Prevention Wikipedia page
The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page [Wikipedia]
SMMGP Drug Strategy Consultation Results
SMMGP recently conducted a consultation of its members regarding the Drug Strategy review. Survey results [SMMGP, UK]
Comparative Cost-Effectiveness of Drug Prohibition/Regulation
Transform launches updated and re-designed 'Comparative Cost-Effectiveness of Drug Prohibition/Regulation' report [TDPF, UK]
Naltrexone aids primary care alcohol treatment
The large-scale US COMBINE study reinforced evidence that the opiate-blocking drug naltrexone also helps dependent drinkers and extended its potential to the kind of drinkers and the kind of treatments found in primary care settings. Print publication 2006 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Driver in record cash seizure after drugs police find £200,000 in car
A Glasgow man has been hit by the biggest cash seizure in Scottish legal history after police investigating a drugs ring found more than £200,000 in his car [The Scotsman, UK]
Public enquiry needed into parental alcohol misuse claim charities
A new report by national charities, Alcohol Concern and The Children’s Society calls for a national inquiry into the impact of parental alcohol misuse on children, as a new survey commissioned by the charities finds high levels of public concern over harmful drinking among parents [Alcohol Concern, UK]
Swept Under the Carpet
The report Swept Under the Carpet report by Alcohol Concern and The Children’s Society also calls for mandatory social work training as recent research found that one third of social workers received no training on alcohol or drugs and half received just three hours of training or less [The Children’s Society, UK]
Alcohol Awareness Week: 18-24 October 2010
Led by Alcohol Concern, activities for Alcohol Awareness Week 2010 are taking place throughout England and Wales [Alcohol Concern, UK]
Watershed call on tv alcohol ads
Campaigners have called for a 9pm watershed on alcohol advertising amid claims that millions of children watched the ads during live World Cup games [Daily Express, UK]
Building a national drugs observatory: a joint handbook
National drugs observatories have flourished and developed rapidly over the last two decades as a direct consequence of the decisions taken to establish regional drug monitoring systems, both in the European Union and in the Americas [EMCDDA]
Longer-lasting options to treat drug addiction
New treatments for addiction to heroin or narcotic painkillers promise longer-lasting relief that may remove some day-to-day uncertainty of care: A once-a-month shot is now approved and a six-month implant is in the final testing phase [Washington Post, USA]
Meth and HIV infection
Stimulant drugs like meth reduce inhibitions, which can lead users to engage in increased and risky sexual activity−often with multiple partners – greatly increasing their risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections [ONDCP, USA]
Mexico Watches California Marijuana Vote
Now, for a change in the drug war, it is Mexico wondering about the possible spillover, this time of an idea. Will such a bold step by its neighbor to the north add momentum to a burgeoning movement here for broad drug legalization? [New York Times, USA]
Time To Act!
How to Tell if Your Teen is Using and Taking Action to Intervene [ATTC, USA]
Mexico security forces seize 105 tonnes of marijuana
Mexican security forces in the city of Tijuana, on the border with the US, have seized 105 tonnes of marijuana - the largest such drug haul for many years [BBC, UK]
Call for harsher liquor licence penalties
Doctors are calling for a crackdown on Victorian pubs, clubs and bottle shops that breach liquor licensing laws [SMH, Australia]
International cooperation can help tackle organized crime
Violent crime, much of it drug-related, is inflicting mayhem and scarring communities worldwide ... Stopping transnational organized crime, which had "ballooned to global proportions," must become an international priority, said Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of [UNODC]