DS Daily - 18th July 2011 |
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Recovery-orientated drug treatment
An interim report by professor John Strang, chair of the expert group | NTA, UK
Doctors urged to review drug patients to ensure they are working to achieve recovery
In an interim report for the NTA, Professor John Strang, head of the National Addiction Centre, signals the direction of new clinical guidance for treating the estimated 260,000 heroin addicts in England | NTA, UK
Mephedrone is more popular than ecstasy among UK clubbers despite being banned
Mephedrone is more popular than ecstasy among UK clubbers despite being banned | Observer, UK
Khat: Social harms and legislation
A literature review by David M. Anderson and Neil C. M. Carrier, University of Oxford | Home Office, UK
eATA announce new Chief Executive
Colin Wilkie-Jones brings to eATA a wealth of experience having previously worked in central government, most recently as Head of Drug and Alcohol Policy at the Department for Work and Pensions | eATA, UK
The cost of implementing personal health budgets
It looks at set-up costs involved for the twenty in-depth evaluated pilot sites to implement personal health budgets | Department of Health, UK
Charity cuts: the 'avoidable destruction' of homelessness services
A charity chief executive has attacked the 'arrogance' and 'recklessness' of politicians and the 'incompetence' of civil servants' over drastic cuts to housing support | Guardian, UK
Binge drinking 'can damage memory skills' in teen girls
Teenagers - especially girls - who binge drink could be damaging the part of their brain which controls memory and spatial awareness, say Californian researchers | BBC, UK
Hard week at work? A drink only makes it worse, warn scientists
Drinking to cope with stress has the opposite effect, scientists have revealed | The Scotsman, UK
Statistical bulletin 2011
The Statistical bulletin is published yearly by the EMCDDA and provides access to the most recent statistical data relating to the drugs situation in Europe | EMCDDA
Markets in everything
Earlier this month the Irish Times reported that the country’s illegal drug market had collapsed | The Economist
'More of this country's young people are dying from alcohol than anything else'
Irish people are among the heaviest consumers of alcohol in Europe. One in four deaths of young men aged 15 to 34 is attributed to alcohol, and it is costing the health service millions each year. So what can we do about it? | Irish Times
Drug users risking disease by sharing equipment, UVic study says
Crack cocaine users in Victoria and Vancouver are sharing their pipes and needles, according to new data released Friday by the University of Victoria's Centre for Addictions Research in B.C | Vancouver Sun, Canada
Marijuana for Patients Remains Off-Limits
In the last few months, officials in New Jersey, as well as several other states, have said that mixed signals from the Obama administration have left them unsure whether their medical marijuana programs could draw federal prosecution of the people involved, including state employees | New York Times, USA
Prison release a deadly sentence
Death rates among prisoners within a year after their release are 10 times higher than among inmates who remain inside - with one-third of deaths occurring in the first four weeks of freedom | The Australian
War to end war on drugs gains allies on right flank
Conservatives are starting to adopt a more liberal stance on the narcotics campaign | SMH, Australia
ACT meth lab alert
The discovery of the first clandestine drug laboratory in the ACT since 2007 has prompted police warnings that the secret production of illicit drugs in suburban homes could kill innocent Canberrans | Canberra Times, Australia
Call to increase alcohol prices
The success of the alcopops tax in cutting teen drinking could be used as a model to introduce a minimum price on all alcoholic beverages, drug and alcohol experts suggest| The Age, Australia
Designer drugs a cat-and-mouse game
New Zealanders can now pick up recreational drugs such as Kronic with their milk and bread, not because of liberal drug policy but because of a legislative loophole | New Zealand Herald
School drugs crackdown
Schools are cracking down on Kronic and other forms of synthetic cannabis, amid fears that they are the drug of choice for students who are trying to get past drink-drive checkpoints | New Zealand Herald
Managing concurrent and repeated risks
Explaining reductions in opium production in Central Helmand (Afghanistan) in 2008-2011 PDF | IDPC