DS Daily - 27th April 2011 |
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The future of mental health care in austerity Britain
High-level supported-living housing is under threat as one London council calls a hostel 'surplus to requirements' | Guardian, UK
Creative Commons
Jamie Billingham has taken advantage of the creative commons license to adapt the OD10 Report from last year into a lovely film using Animoto | Injecting Advice, UK
Coke lags’ £25k jail drug deals
Two shameless lags last night boasted that they have raked in £25,000 from selling drugs inside jail | The Sun, UK
Coroner links binge drinking to fatal liver disease
Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane said the potential damage due to alcohol was shocking. “It’s quite frightening the amount of damage one can do to one’s liver in a relatively short time of drinking excessively.” | Irish Times
Tobacco firms used diet-aid chemicals to convince people that smoking makes you thin
British and American tobacco companies deliberately added powerful appetite-suppressing chemicals to cigarettes to attract people worried about their weight, according to internal industry documents dating from 1949 to 1999 | Belfast Telegraph, UK
Giving Prisoners Addictive Drugs: Sometimes a Good Idea
Methadone therapy can help opiate-addicted inmates recover, and many countries have embraced it. But the U.S. hasn't | The Atlantic, USA
Drug submarines
Colombia's underwater cocaine traffic | BBC, UK
More substance abuse treatment services needed
A drug policy group is calling for better treatment services for drug and alcohol abuse in regional areas such as the Far West | ABC News, Australia
Impact of economic crises on mental health
The economic crisis is expected to produce secondary mental health
effects that may increase suicide and alcohol death rates. However, the
mental health effects of the economic crisis can be offset by social
welfare and other policy measures | WHO
UNODC working with Kyrgyzstan's new anti-drug agency to curb illicit narcotics and organized crime
Executive Director Yury Fedotov met with Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva and Prime Minister Almazbek Atambaev as part of a visit to the country to discuss UNODC's expanding partnership and sign off on a new project in support of Kyrgyzstan's State Service on Drug Control | UNODC