DS Daily - 12th December 2011 |
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New practical guide for prevention professionals
EMCDDA launches first European quality standards to improve drug prevention in the EU | EMCDDA
Board meeting and papers - 13 December 2011
National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK
'Voice Audio Bank - alcohol and drugs'
This new website is brought to you by people with experience of alcohol and drugs problems, volunteers, and | Lifeline Project, UK
The 2nd Alison Chesney & Eddie Killoran Memorial Lecture: Substance use and Recessions
Video - Dr Rosalie Pacula from Rand Drug Policy Research Centre presents her lecture 'Substance Use and Recessions: Insights from Economic Analyses of Alcohol and Drug Use | FEAD, UK
Alcohol diseases double in 7 years
The Health Minister Andrew Lansley was forced to defend his controversial "hands off" approach to public health yesterday as new figures revealed hospital admissions for alcohol-related diseases have doubled in the past seven years | Independent, UK
Government reveals £50m cut to health campaigns adspend
There was also zero spend on ads for alcohol misuse by the Department of Health over 2010/11, in comparison to £3.3m in the previous yea ... By comparison, Drinkaware has continued to run its drinks-industry funded 'Why Let Good Times Go Bad' campaign aimed at young people | Marketing Magazine, UK
Violence, abuse, vomit: a night with the 'booze bus' medics at Christmas
Kim Willsher spends a shift with a specialist paramedic crew that deals with the fallout of binge drinking in the capital | Observer, UK
It's official - alcohol is to blame for unsafe sex, experts claim
Sexual desire is boosted by booze and researchers believe thrill-seekers are naturally drawn to drink and unprotected sex | The Mirror, UK
Cheering news after ban on bulk-buy drink deals
Sales of beer are down by 8%, wine by 5% and spirits by 3% in the eight weeks following the ban's introduction on October 1st | The Herald, Scotland, UK
Nice work if you can find it
An ambitious, well-intentioned welfare-to-work programme is struggling against the economic current | The Economist, UK
Sixteen young people dead - and now the Drugs Unit could be disbanded
As fears grow over the future of the Garda Drugs unit in Donegal, local campaigner, P.J. Blake has cited the drug related deaths of sixteen young people in the county in the last decade and a half | Donegal Democrat, Ireland
41% of all prisoners in Malta on drugs
Of the 731 individuals incarcerated at Corradino Correctional Facility in 2010, 299 tested positive for opiates – heroin and morphine, among others – cocaine, cannabis or a mix of two or all drug types | Times of Malta
Adult Drug Courts
Adult Drug Courts: Studies Show Courts Reduce Recidivism, but DOJ Could Enhance Future Performance Measure Revision Efforts. Full report | GAO, USA
State pushes drug that saves money, costs lives
To cut costs, Washington steers Medicaid patients to a narcotic painkiller that costs less than a dollar a dose. The state insists methadone is safe. But hundreds die each year — and more than anyone else, the poor pay the price | Seattle Times, USA
After 5 years, Mexico’s drug war still rages
Calderon’s U.S.-backed war rages on, and despite victories here and there, many Mexicans would say Ramirez Acuna’s objectives have not been met | Washington Post, USA
Alcohol and other drug treatment services 2009 - 2010
Australian Capital Territory - Queensland - Western Australia - New South Wales | AIHW, Australia
Drug rehab spending revealed
The Western Australian Government has revealed how it will spend $16 million allocated in the last budget to drug and alcohol treatment in the north-west | ABC News, Australia
A better pill to swallow
Methadone acts like a permanent set of liquid handcuffs, promising a lifelong state-paid additive to dampen the inner demons | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Sniffer dogs get it wrong four out of five times
A record 80 per cent of sniffer dog searches for drugs resulted in ''false positives'' this year, figures show | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Health experts welcome first step towards appropriate alcohol labelling
The Australian and New Zealand Ministerial Council on Food Regulation today acknowledged the need to regulate warning labels on alcohol products | Fare, Austrlaia
VAADA Submission to the Inquiry into Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Submissions were called by the House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs (the Committee) on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder | VAADA, Australia
Alcoholics in need of help not getting rehab
A report has revealed less than 20 per cent of people seeking help for alcohol and drug addiction in the Northern Territory have undergone rehabilitation | ABC News, Australia
Farmers put cannabis growers on notice
In the first outcome from the recent Police-Federated Farmers Letter of Agreement, Federated Farmers is asking its members to actively assist the Police in combating the cultivation of cannabis | Yahoo
Dunne in gun over survey backing booze crackdown
More than half of all Kiwis want the price of cheap booze pushed up and liquor trading hours tightened, a previously unpublished survey suggests | Dominion Post, New Zealand
The West is no angel on drugs
Usage has been a vexed problem in the East for centuries, and we're at fault | The Age, Australia