DS Daily - 18th March 2011 |
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Breaking the 'revolving door' cycle of drug addiction
Developing Health and Independence (DHI), the charity previously known as the Drugs and Homelessness Initiative, has been working closely with the police and had representatives available at the end of last week to talk to those arrested about the options available to them [This is Bath, UK]
Health fears grow as new “legal high” spreads across the country
Ivory wave, a drug being described as “the next mephedrone”, is growing in popularity and has already been implicated in deaths and illness across the UK, according to a critical-care paramedic [Caledonian Mercury, UK]
UK's treatment war on drugs
A Lesson in Unintended Consequences and Perverse Outcomes - Kathy Gyngell [Journal of Global Drug Policy & Practice]
Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy.
Setting the Scene: Theory of change and baseline picture PDF [NHS Health Scotland]
Funding for Cornwall homeless charity reviewed
Cornwall Council is to review the £288,000 funding it gives to a charity providing accommodation for nearly 50 homeless people in St Austell [BBC, UK]
Adult and juvenile reoffending statistics 2009
Adult and juvenile reoffending statistics for 2009 show a fall in re-offending by adults and juveniles [Ministry of Justice , UK]
All prisons to use single patient record system
The government has said that a healthcare IT system for English prisons is due to be completed shortly [Guardian, UK]
Social care funding and the NHS
An impending crisis? PDF [The King's Fund, UK]
Adults represent a majority of inhalant treatment admissions
Over 1 million adults abuse inhalants each year - Spotlight Study PDF [SAMHSA, USA]
Psychotherapeutic Medications 2011
What Every Counselor Should Know [Addiction Technology Transfer Center, USA]
Australian women suffering consequences of alcohol
Samantha Donovan spoke with the report's co-author associate professor Paul Dietze from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne [ABC News, Australia]