DS Daily - 8th March 2011 |
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Home Office Drug Strategy blog
The blog will run for two weeks to capture comments and thoughts from delivery partners and will then be evaluated to see if it is a useful way to share views and ideas, successes and challenges [Home Office, UK]
Top Liverpool judge warns crime-fighting will be hit hard by drug treatment centre cuts
North Liverpool Community Justice Centre’s David Fletcher expressed his fears after hearing that Liverpool’s only residential drug and alcohol addiction centre has lost more than half the money it receives from the city council [Liverpool Echo, UK]
US charity pays drug addicts to use birth control
A US charity says it has paid 26 female drug addicts in Britain to have contraceptive implants or coils fitted [BBC, UK]
Families Want Answers to Addiction
Brendan talks about addiction as a condition that affects all the family, and how tackling it as a family with the help of a support group that can provide education, advice and counselling is the most effective way of beating addiction [Inexcess TV, UK]
Welsh: Drug Busting Project To Shop Them And Drop Them
Residents across the Neath area will be encouraged to lend a hand in freeing their neighbourhood of drug dealers under a new project to tackle substance misuse [eGov Monitor, UK]
SMMGP Newsletter
Network No 31 February 2011 [SMMGP, UK]
Voluntary Sector Cuts
A website that allows charities to input what cuts they’re facing. It then aggregates them on a spreadsheet and a map [Voluntary Sector Cuts, UK]
Consultation on minimum price of alcohol in NI launched
Stormont ministers believe alcohol misuse could be costing NI £900m a year [BBC, UK]
Alcohol-related conditions on the rise among women in Ireland
National alcohol charity launches new women and alcohol leaflet to mark 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day [Alcohol Action Ireland]
Psychiatrists say Northern Ireland plans for minimum price for alcohol could save lives
Introducing a minimum price for alcohol in Northern Ireland is an important step in the prevention of suicide and self-harm, as well as addressing wider health and social issues [Royal College of Psychiatrists]
There is no such thing as a safe level of alcohol consumption
The idea that drinking small amounts of alcohol will do you no harm is a myth, claims Professor David Nutt [Guardian, UK]
Last orders for city centre alcohol restrictions?
Cardiff's Licensing Chair, Councillor Ed Bridges, looks at the origins of the policy, and calls for it to be reviewed and an end to 'half measures' on St Mary Street [Guardian, UK]
Oxy addicts drive surge in demand for methadone
The number of methadone patients in Winnipeg has taken a “tremendous leap” over the past two years, according the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba [Winnipeg Sun, Canada]
"Drugs, Brains, and Behavior - The Science of Addiction"
How Science Has Revolutionized the Understanding of Drug Addiction - PDF [NIDA, USA]
US drug czar: Florida drug database may go online
White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said on Thursday that he is encouraged that Florida may move forward with a planned statewide database for tracking prescription drugs [Florida Wires, USA]
Severe Substance Dependence Treatment Act 2010
The Severe Substance Dependence Treatment Act 2010 (the Act) came into effect in Victoria on 1 March 2011 - Summary PDF [Department of Health, Victoria, Australia]
Severe Substance Dependence Treatment Regulations 2011
Authorised by the [Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Australia]
Fevola 'on drugs for the rest of his career'
Sacked Brisbane AFL star Brendan Fevola will take an anti-alcohol drug for the rest of his playing career, according to his management [The Age, Australia]
Conflict over liquor sachets in Malawi
Government and NGOs versus alcohol producers. Health versus profits [Alcohol, Drugs and Development, Norway]