DS Daily - 22nd June 2011 |
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Response to Sentencing Council: Drug Offences Guidelines Consultation
Drugscope welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Sentencing Council’s consultation on the draft Drug Offences Guidelines| DrugScope, UK
Leave drugs behind say Glastonbury police (Glastonbury Festival)
Police are reminding revellers heading to Glastonbury Festival not to spoil their experience by abusing drugs at the event | Avon and Somerset Police, UK
UKDPC survey of support for adult family members and/or carers of people with drug problems
The deadline for completing the survey is 4th July 2011. A big thank you to all of you who have already completed this UKDPC on-line survey. However, we know there are more services out there and we want to ensure we get a complete picture | UKDPC
Cocaine addiction linked to brain abnormalities
Cambridge scientists find differences in key areas of grey matter affecting functions such as memory and attention | Guardian, UK
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill
House of Commons, UK
Breaking the Cycle
Government Response | Ministry of Justice, UK
Industrial hydraulic press used to hide £2.25 million of cocaine
A drug gang who used a specially adapted hydraulic press to conceal 18.4kgs of cocaine in an attempt to smuggle it into south west England have been sentenced to 50 years at Exeter Crown Court | SOCA, UK
Lochhead stresses social responsibility of those involved in alcohol sales
Everyone involved in the sale of alcohol has a social responsibility to minimise the risks involved, according to Moray’s MSP Richard Lochhead | Alcohol Focus Scotland, UK
People over 65 should drink less, a report says
The Royal College of Psychiatrists says people over 65 should drink a maximum of only 1.5 units of alcohol a day | BBC, UK
Care professionals must act on alcohol misuse among elderly
Health and social care professionals have been urged to "wise up" to the growing problem of substance misuse among older people, in a report today from the Royal College of Psychiatrists | Community Care, UK
Publicans withdraw from membership of alcohol regulation lobby
The country’s two largest publicans associations have withdrawn from a drinks industry body promoting the sensible enjoyment of alcohol | The Journal, Ireland
Improving alcohol treatment saved lives in Sweden
Compared to usual treatment, over the next 27 years introduction of a comprehensively serviced female-only alcohol treatment unit in Sweden substantially extended the lives of its patients - a uniquely convincing demonstration that improving treatment can save lives | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Krokodil: The drug that eats junkies
A home-made heroin substitute is having a horrific effect on thousands of Russia's drug addicts | Independent, UK
The Curse of the Crocodile: Russia's Deadly Designer Drug
The average user of krokodil, a dirty cousin of morphine that is spreading like a virus among Russian youth, does not live longer than two or three years, and the few who manage to quit usually come away disfigured | TIME, USA
Federal substance-abuse agencies lumber toward a merger
Officials at the National Institute on Drug Abuse said Sunday that the opening of a new agency that will take the place of both the NIDA and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, will likely occur in October 2013 instead of 2012 | LA Times, USA
Removing needles from correctional settings
Until correctional administrators can guarantee a totally drug-free environment, they need to manage the risk of infections caused by inmate access to needles | Corrections One, USA
New graphic cigarette warnings unveiled
On Tuesday, the federal government unveiled a plan designed instead to shock customers with images of tobacco’s impact | Washington Post, USA
National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data collection 2010
On a snapshot day in 2010 there were 46,078 clients who received pharmacotherapy for opioid dependence, of which almost two in three were male | AIHW, Australia
Prisoners are against needle plan: submission
The Prisoners Aid counsellor at the ACT Magistrates Court says not one of more than 150 former prisoners he interviewed in the past year expressed support for a needle exchange program at the Alexander Maconochie Centre | Canberra Times, Australia
The Drug War Must End: More Evidence from Thailand
The Drug War Must End: More Evidence from Thailand June 21, 2011 | by Kathleen Kingsbury Only weeks after the Global Commission on Drug Policy called for the end of the drug war, new video testimony from Thailand reinforces why this is a necessary step to ensuring public health | Open Society Foundations, USA
Refined sewer epidemiology mass balances and their application to heroin, cocaine and ecstasy.
After conducting such a study with a multi-national scope on illicit drugs including cocaine, heroin and ecstasy, the results obtained clearly indicate that extrapolation factors currently being used in literature for these drugs to enumerate prevalence of abuse required significant refinement to increase their reliability | PubMed
Drug World News
Paul Cook