DS Daily - 21st June 2011 |
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Misleading Centre for Policy Studies report ‘grossly exaggerates’ cost of methadone prescribing
Report published by right-of-centre think tank is inaccurate and misleading, ‘grossly exaggerating’ the cost of methadone prescribing and ‘seriously understating’ the achievements of drug treatment | DrugScope, UK
Response to the Sentencing Council Drug Offences Guideline consultation
It will benefit from more explicit use of evidence, particularly when using proportionality and harm as the basis for sentencing recommendations | UK Drug Policy Commission
Ken Clarke Wants Addicts Out Of Prison
Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke wants to divert people with drug problems away from prison and into treatment as part of a "rehabilitation revolution" | Police Oracle, UK
Legal highs 'becoming bigger issue than illegal drugs'
Legal highs are becoming a bigger problem than illegal drugs, with many young people wrongly believing they are safe, a drugs worker claims | BBC Wales, UK
Brain abnormality link to cocaine addiction
Cocaine addicts have abnormalities in their brains that may make them less able to resist a compulsion to take the drug, scientists have claimed | The Herald, Scotland, UK
All Aboard the BDAAT Drug & Alcohol Bus for World Drugs Day
Communities across Birmingham are being given the opportunity to learn more about drugs and alcohol as the Birmingham Drug & Alcohol Action Team are touring the city for four days in a double decker information and advice health bus to showcase World Drugs Day | BDAAT, UK
Mental health services in crisis over staff shortages
Exclusive: Royal College of Psychiatrists warns society will be overwhelmed if ministers fail to fill gap | Guardian, UK
Methadone use falls but drugs issue ‘complex’
Only HSE South recorded an increase. But addiction experts warn that the figures do not mean heroin usage has dropped or that there are sufficient treatment facilities,particularly outside Dublin | Irish Examiner
Cocaine Market Remains under Significant Stress
According to the new U.S. Government estimates, which are conducted annually, Colombia is holding the line against coca cultivation after major decreases in 2007 and 2008 | ONDCP, USA
The fiscal case for legalising marijuana
It's a no-brainer: ending the 'war on drugs' would create jobs, cut law enforcement costs, raise revenue – and benefit patients | Guardian, UK
The Latin American Drug Trade
Scope, Dimensions, Impact, and Response | Rand Corporation, USA
Treatment works, prisons don’t
Call for preventative & cost effective approach to crime | VAADA, Australia
Health sector to tackle Australia’s hidden disability – fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Australian health experts have stepped up efforts to reduce the impact of alcohol-related birth defects, with the launch today of a multi-pronged program including the first Australian service to diagnose this under-reported problem | AERF, Australia
West Africa drugs trafficking 'increasingly sophisticated'
UN anti-drugs officials believe cocaine trafficking through West Africa to reach the lucrative markets in Europe is getting increasingly sophisticated | BBC, UK
NRC, UNODC join hands to draw national anti-drug strategy
The National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) held a coordinating with strategic partners to review framework, objectives and pre-requisite of a study on assessment of the current situation | Emirates News Agency