DS Daily - 23rd March 2011 |
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Westminster Drug Project expands to offer residential care in Hertfordshire and Essex
Westminster Drug Project (WDP), which treated over 12,000 people for drug and alcohol addiction in 2010, has expanded its services in Hertfordshire and Essex to offer residential rehabilitation services, following its agreement to merge with Vale House Stabilisation Services [WDP, UK]
£7 million boost for Big Society
The Government’s Transition Fund, to help charities prepare for Big Society opportunities and face current challenges, will have an additional £7million from the Department of Health, Care Services. 183 more charities get cash support [Cabinet Office, UK]
There is no hiding with LSD
Beyond the flowers that turn into cats, an acid trip forces users to face whatever comes up, and self-knowledge often follows - Sue Blackmore [Guardian, UK]
The Future of the Alcohol Learning Centre
Alcohol Learning Centre to hibernate and thanks to all [ALC, UK]
Motorists to be denied blood tests when stopped on suspicion of drink driving
Motorists who are marginally over the limit when stopped by the police are to lose the right to demand a blood test under the biggest changes to drink-drive law in over 40 years [Telegraph, UK]
Beer tattoo discount was enough to drive me to ink
A beer drinker has earned a lifetime's discount on his favourite tipple after becoming the first fanatic to have its logo controversially tattooed on his body [Edinburgh Evening News, UK]
Plea to keep young out of jail
As well as Mr Baillie, co-signatories to the letter include Angela Morgan, chief executive of youth justice charity Includem, Susan Mattheson of the Howard League, Gillian Little, chief officer of Glasgow Community Justice Authority, Stirling University academic Dr Bill Munro, Peter Kelly, director of the Poverty Alliance, and David Liddell, director of Scottish Drugs Forum [The Herald, Scotland, UK]
Police and Govt fail on booze laws: A-G
Neither West Australian police nor the government are effectively enforcing the responsible service of alcohol, possibly fuelling violence, the state's auditor-general has found [SMH, Australia]
Big two deny cut-price beer war
Retailers Coles and Woolworths have denied that they are selling some beer brands at below cost in a cut-throat beer war [SMH, Australia]
Beer wars: big retail v Foster's
Beer has become the new battleground in the supermarket price war after Australia's biggest brewer, Foster's, pulled key beer brands from Coles and Woolworths upon learning of a plan to sell them for $28 a slab - well below cost [SMH, Australia]
Count the Costs
The War on Drugs - Count the Costs global campaign will be launched by NGOs from around the world at a side-event at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna [War on Drugs - Count the Costs]