DS Daily - 7th March 2011 |
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Breaking the cycle: Effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders
Response from [DrugScope, UK]
Leeds help for people affected by relative's drug use
Do you care for a partner or family member who is affected by drug addiction? Guest blogger Kris Harris says help is at hand [Guardian, UK]
Testing for Parental Substance Misuse - best practice review at Scottish conference
The conference, Getting it right for every family, will provide much-needed support and advice for social workers to support children living with parents addicted to drugs and alcohol [Concateno, UK]
Statistics From The Northern Ireland Drug Addicts Index 2010
People are registered on the index if they are known to be, or if a medical practitioner considers them to be, addicted to one or more of 14 controlled drugs [eGov monitor, UK]
LibDems back move to give addicts NHS heroin
Scotland's heroin users should not be imprisoned or fined and should get the drug on the NHS, Liberal Democrat members have agreed [The Herald, Scotland, UK]
New scheme launched to tackle substance abuse
Edinburgh Alcohol and Drug Partnership announce their new five-year strategy [The Journal, UK]
Awaiting recovery
The reason we have a recovery movement at all is a reaction to old, inadequate, disempowering and redundant ways of doing things [Binge Inking]
Research sheds new light on the neurobiology of disordered eating
People with eating disorders are at higher risk for substance-use disorders. Kathleen Parrish and Kim Sines report on the science and treatment [Addiction Today, UK]
Sweeping the homeless – and charity – from Westminster's streets
A plan to stop charities distributing food in the area west of London's Victoria station seems a symptom of a broken society [Guardian, UK]
David Cameron’s assault on the homeless is Dickensian
Earlier this week, the Tory-run Westminster Council, one of the richest in Britain, announced a ban on sleeping on the streets, or feeding anybody who does [Independent, UK]
Cocaine trafficking ring smashed by mobile phone technology
Officers used the thousands of calls made between more than a dozen mobile phones to link foot soldiers at the bottom of the gang to those at the top who “didn’t want to get their hands dirty” [Wales Online, UK]
The unknown unknowns; what and why they are
It actually sums up the situation we have with cannabis quite well [UKCIA]
Smoking-related and alcohol-related deaths to the gender gap in mortality
Smoking continues to be the most important cause of gender differences in mortality across Europe, but its importance as an explanation for this difference is often overshadowed by presumptions about other explanations [Tobacco Control]
Charity Commission to move operations online only
An equalities impact assessment, published by the commission yesterday, says the regulator "wishes to make the online route the principal means of doing business, and to move away from traditional alternatives" [Charity Commission, UK]
New plans on price of alcohol in Northern Ireland
New plans for the minimum price of alcohol in Northern Ireland are to be unveiled today [BBC, UK]
Keighley centre to help alcoholic mothers
A specialist centre dealing with pregnant women who have problems with alcohol and risk damage to their unborn babies is to open in West Yorkshire [BBC, UK]
Anti-depressants in England and Wales
A map of GP prescriptions [Guardian, UK]
Columnist's attitude on drug abuse 'defies belief'
We are a group of public and private-sector doctors from more than 30 countries who treat patients with drug problems. As such, we feel compelled to respond to Ian O'Doherty's writings on February 18 and again on February 22 calling for the sterilisation of people who use drugs [Independent, Ireland]
Heroin - the drug of choice for older users
We associate drug use with youth but the numbers of people aged 40 years or over with addiction problems are on the increase [Independent, Ireland]
Hepatitis and drug use
Thematic page [EMCDDA]
Safe injection rooms for drug users?
In France there's an ongoing debate whether it's time to open injection rooms also known as shooting galleries [France 24]
EMCDDA to acknowledge excellence in scientific writing
The award is now open. Nominations close on 2 May 2011 [EMCDDA]
States Rethink Drug Laws
Treatment Gains Favor Over Long Prison Terms; a New Look at Rehabilitation [Wall Street Journal, USA]
Losing more than a needle exchange program in D.C.
While those directly involved with PreventionWorks understood that it was much more than an HIV-prevention organization, the scale of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the District demands that, if nothing else, the lost syringe exchange services be replaced and greatly expanded by those organizations left standing to fill the void [Washington Post, USA]
Mexico's frustration with U.S. drug policy
While promising partnership to Mr. Calderon, Congress and the Obama administration have failed to deliver [Washington Post, USA]
Federal Cuts to SAMHSA May Jeopardize Drug and Alcohol Programming
Legal Action Center (LAC) and State Associations of Addiction Services (SAAS) is urging prevention and treatment prpviders to contact Members of Congress about the importance of funding SAMHSA at the highest possible levels in FY 2011 [LAC and SAAS, USA]
Drug treatment to cut reoffending rates
A coalition government would try to lower the state's prison population with programs to reduce reoffending rates in NSW, at present the worst in Australia [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
Legal 'heroin' sold to addicts
Doctors are writing thousands of suspect prescriptions for a pharmaceutical variation of heroin, much of it destined for the black market, forcing the federal government to investigate the actions of 50 medical practitioners [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
Leaked report unveils rehab centre criticisms
A leaked Federal Government document raises big questions about an expensive rehabilitation centre in South Australia meant to address the problem of substance abuse in remote Aboriginal communities [ABC News, Australia]
Comorbidity competencies
Skills indicators - ATOD practitioners will need to support clients with multiple and complex needs - mapping undertaken by Hannah Graham and Rob White as a component of their Salvation Army Bridge Program / University of Tasmania Comorbidity Improved Services Initiative (ISI) capacity building project [School of Sociology & Social Work, University of Tasmania]
Liquor reform needs courage
Alcohol reform needs to balance freedom with social cost and it needs to be reckoned against the background of a society where liberalisation has moved far too far, far too fast -Editorial [New Zealand Herald]