DS Daily - 10th March 2011

 

New plans announced to tackle smoking challenge

‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A Tobacco Control Plan for England’ sets out how tobacco control will be delivered over the next five years. Download and Academic review of smokefree legislation [Department of Health, UK]

The Drug War in Mexico: Confronting a Shared Threat

This 35-page US report analyzes the drug war in Mexico [Council on Foreign Relations, USA]

Needle and Syringe Program

Treatment service users (TSU) project: phase two [Department of Health and Ageing, Australia]

Online checks to stop pharmacy-hopping for drugs

A real-time online reporting system is being introduced in South Australia for pharmacists and police to monitor sales of pseudoephedrine [ABC News, Australia]