DS Daily - 12th August 2011 |
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Consolidation and review of the misuse of drugs regulations 2001
The consultation will run for 12 weeks. The closing date for responses is 28 October 2011 | Home Office, UK
Our probation officers should work more like surgeons
Offenders need not just face-time, but more contact with the most experienced staff | Guardian, UK
Call for action as hepatitis C cases surge
Dr Roy Robertson, chair of the National Forum on Drug-Related Deaths, said around 1000 new cases are recorded in Scotland each year, but last year was a 10-year high with 857 cases in Greater Glasgow and Clyde and 274 in the Lothians | The Herald, Scotland, UK
Permanent and Fixed Period Exclusions from Schools in England 2009/10
The recently published Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2010 reconfirms the relationship between truancy and exclusion with drug use by young people | Drug Education Forum, UK
Improving the Delivery of the Alcohol Direct Enhanced Service
A Step-By-Step Guide for Commissioners, Primary Care Practitioners and Practice Managers | HAGA, UK
Personal health budgets
Completing our suite of studies looking at what key groups in the NHS think of personal health budgets, this report presents the perspective of mental health service users and carers | NHS Confederation, UK
The harm reduction taboo
To the federal Conservative government, the former co-lead investigator at Vancouver’s controversial supervised injection site is a man with some dangerous, even abominable, ideas: Namely, that drug addiction is a health issue, not a political or criminal one | Ottawa Citizen, Canada
Partner Perspective: Florida's Drug Overdose Epidemic
Today, we have new and powerful forces in our court: a governor and state legislators who have passed measures to control excessive prescriptions by pain doctors and clinics; and President Obama whose administration has drafted a comprehensive action plan on prescription drug abuse | Of Substance Blog, ONDCP, USA
The benefit in doubt
Welfare beneficiaries who use alcohol and drugs are likely to be targeted under a new, tougher regime if recommendations by the Welfare Working Group are introduced | New Zealand Drug Foundation
WHO faces up to its tobacco links
Report provides compelling evidence for transparency about competing interests | BMJ
WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2011
This report is the third in a series of WHO reports on the status of global tobacco control policy implementation | WHO