DS Daily - 23rd August 2011 |
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Are drug deaths avoidable? The debate
A debate with key people from drug policy makers, human rights, drug treatment service providers, mental and physical health agencies, research and evidence analysis organisations, and other interested parties, to speak on the day (30th September 2011) Entrance Free | DrugScope, UK
Substance misuse body rocked by nurse resignations
The board of the body representing substance misuse nurses has resigned en masse after issuing a warning that government policy and financial constraints were leading to “uncertainty” in the jobs of its members | Nursing Times, UK
Recovery Project Intern
Three months fixed-term contract (paid). Both full and part-time applications will be considered | RSA, UK
Councils withdrawing social workers from mental health teams
Mental health services risk becoming fragmented and put under increased pressure by councils withdrawing social workers from integrated teams, NHS leaders have warned | Community Care, UK
UK riots: Inside the deadly world of gangs
In these chronically deprived areas, the drugs trade - worth £4.5billion in the UK - is often the only business setting up shop | The Mirror, UK
Viewers bombard the BBC with complaints after Casualty doc's Scottish smack slur
The BBC got more than 60 complaints from Scotland after a doctor on hit show Casualty claimed drug abuse was a "national pastime" | Daily Record, UK
The government’s Work Programme is under threat of financial collapse
The Department for Work and Pensions should revise its performance targets and introduce more credible incentives | London School of Economics, UK
Will the work programme work?
Examining the future viability of the work programme | Social Market Foundation, UK
Make Runaways Safe campaign website is live
The Children’s Society has today launched a website to accompany its Make Runaways Safe campaign. The site, www.makerunawayssafe.org.uk, lays out the charity’s ambition to protect the 100,000 children in the UK who run away each year | The Children’s Society, UK
Homelessness Prevention and Relief: England 2010-11
This is an experimental official statistics release on homelessness prevention and relief in England that took place outside the homelessness statutory framework in 2010-11 | Communities and Local Government, UK
HRI announces new joint grant in partnership with INPUD & IDPC
Harm Reduction International, the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) and the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) are pleased to announce the awarding of a major joint grant from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) | HRI
Irina Abdyusheva Teplinskaya arrested
Irina Abdyusheva (Teplinskaya), who was taking the Russian Government to court to force them to allow her and many other Russian's access to methadone appears to have been the victim of drugs being planted on her | Talking Drugs