DS Daily - 12th January 2011

How addicted are we? The UK’s data deficit

Now with a comment from the NTA [Centre for Policy Studies, UK]

Dr Chris Ford Podcast Discussing the Founding of the IDHDP

During the 13 minute podcast Chris talks about her experiences as a primary care clinician working with people who use drugs, and about the inaugural meeting of the International Doctors for Healthy Drug Policies [SMMGP]

Social Return on Investment

New Research Reveals Social Return on Investment Is Not An Adequate Tool To Measure Impact Of The Third Sector [EGov Monitor, UK]

Delivering Male: Effective practice in male mental health

The first ever set of guidelines addressing the mental health needs of men and boys, put together by Mind and the Men’s Health Forum, with the aim of improving mental health care and services for the male population in England [Mind and the Men’s Health Forum, UK]

Number of people spending time in NHS mental health hospitals increases for the first time in five years

They show the rise was due to an increase of 30.1 per cent in the number of people being detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act - Dataset [NHS Information Centre, UK]

A Label for Exclusion

Support for alcohol-misusing offenders [Centre for Mental Health, UK]

Call to lower Scots limit on drink-driving

Police and safety campaigners have backed calls for the drink-drive limit to be lowered in Scotland [Alcohol Focus Scotland, UK]

Life as an undercover police officer

On drugs operations, Corbett would need to gather evidence proving that a major criminal was not only willingly selling drugs - but also willing to secure large quantities of them [BBC, UK]

Late-night pubs to pay for policing

Late-night bars and clubs in Cardiff could be forced to pay for extra policing under new laws noted by Cardiff council today [Guardian, UK]

Older drinkers are 'neglected' in Welsh alcohol abuse strategies

Age Cymru said the Assembly Government’s drink strategies were failing to meet the needs of over-50s [Daily Post, UK]

Cigarette displays do encourage smoking, researcher says

Researcher wants the government to ban point-of-sale displays – but the tobacco companies are lobbying hard [Guardian, UK]

Update on Smoking Bans Around the World

The noose tightens [Addiction Inbox, USA]

NDCI presentations from the national drugs conference

Click on the presenters name to download the powerpoint presentation - Click to watch the audio and slide presentation [INEF, Ireland]

National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2009

Primarily measures the prevalence and correlates of drug use in the United States [SAMHSA, USA]

New compounds added to NIDA’s drug supply inventory

The purpose of the Drug Supply Program is to provide basic research investigators
with authentic and standardized drugs of abuse, their metabolites and other ligands as agonists and antagonists in most of the categories such as stimulants, hallucinogens, narcotics, cannabinoids, opioids, opioid peptides, and marijuana [NIDA, USA]