DS Daily - 19th May 2011 |
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Festival organisers warned over the dangers of so-called 'legal highs'
Music festival organisers were today asked to review their measures for tackling illicit drug use at their events by Baroness Browning, the government's new minister for crime prevention and antisocial behaviour reduction | Home Office, UK
Heroin overdose reverse drugs saves three lives after introduction in Llanelli
Now addicts, as well as their families and carers, are being trained to administer the life-saving antidote to overdosing peers as the fight to combat drug-related deaths in the town continue | This is South Wales, UK
Jailed care home manager used trust to avoid detection, concludes case review
During the period under review the regulatory organisation had changed twice, primary care trusts had been formed and then reorganised, district nursing services had two changes of management arrangements, out-of-hours service arrangements had changed more than once and the social services department had changed its responsibilities | Guardian, UK
Bad buzz on binge drinking and verbal learning
Researchers at the University of Santiago of Compostela in Spain revealed that students who drank heavily - more than five alcoholic drinks for men and four for women on one occasion - scored lower on a verbal learning test than students who didn't binge drink | Independent, UK
Universal school-based prevention programs for alcohol misuse in young people
This review identified studies that showed no effects of preventive interventions, as well as studies that demonstrated statistically significant effects. There was no easily discernible pattern in characteristics that would distinguish trials with positive results from those with no effects | Cochrane Library
Transport police in Scottish Cup Final alcohol appeal
Football fans attending this Saturday's Scottish Cup Final between Motherwell and Celtic have been warned against taking alcohol onto trains | BBC, UK
Scottish Borders minimum alcohol price support move
The administration of Scottish Borders Council is seeking support for moves to set a minimum unit price for alcohol | BBC, UK
Alex Salmond calls for Scotland to have greater influence in EU
Controlling about £1.6bn of excise duty would allow Holyrood to fix its own alcohol prices. Salmond's last minority government wanted to set a minimum price for alcohol to tackle Scotland's "booze culture", but was repeatedly thwarted by the opposition parties | Guardian, UK
Should we follow America's lead in giving long sentences to drink-drivers who kill?
Two almost identical cases, 3,000 miles apart, each costing the lives of two young people killed by a drunk, speeding driver | The Mirror, UK
'Broke, not broken' report
Thousands of young people from the UK’s poorest families believe they will achieve 'few' or 'none' of their goals in life, warns 'Broke, not broken', a new report by | The Prince’s Trust, UK
Poll of social workers reveals alarm at caseloads and stress
A Community Care poll of 275 practitioners, conducted in partnership with The College of Social Work, suggested that teams were struggling to cope with a shrinking workforce and rising demand for services | Community Care, UK
Call to drug agencies for research participants for mephedrone study
Waterford Institute of Technology and the Irish Needle exchange Forum are looking for participants to partake in a study that seeks to learn more about the drug mephedrone, and in particular, those who have or are currently injecting mephedrone | Drugs.ie, Ireland
If a drug policy works, Harper wants nothing to do with it
From the moment the Conservatives came to power in 2006, they insisted that the decision on Insite's future would not be guided by politics or ideology. The evidence would settle it. But as the evidence of Insite's effectiveness steadily mounted, the Conservatives' hostility to the facility never wavered. They wanted to close it then. They want to close it now | Ottawa Citizen, Canada
Street alcohol program saves millions
As backward as it might sound, one of the city's most innovative programs to help street drunks is the managed-alcohol program run jointly by the Shepherds of Good Hope and Ottawa Inner City Health Inc., which takes medicine to the needy, where they need it | Ottawa Citizen, Canada
More seniors seek treatment for abuse of drugs and alcohol
Between 1992 and 2008, treatment admissions for those 50 and older more than doubled in the U.S. That number will continue to grow, experts say, as the massive baby boom generation ages | Washington Times, USA
Old habits die hard
Rise in number of alcohol and drug addicts over 50 in the U.S. | Daily Mail, UK
It's fruity, 12 percent alcohol, and wicked, critics say
The can comes painted with an explosion of pink and orange fruit, and if not for the familiar bucking Colt 45 horse, and the 12 percent alcohol warning, you might mistake a tallboy of Blast for a fruity kids' drink |Seattle Times, USA
Alcohol tax to rise 3% on July 1
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will give final approval to an increase in the state’s alcohol sales tax as he signs more than 200 bills into law | Washington Times, USA
A shot in the arm for tackling drug use
The City of Yarra on Melbourne's CBD fringe voted 6-1 in favour of a Sydney's Kings Cross-style heroin injecting room in the suburb of Richmond | The Drum, ABC News, Australia
Widespread support for injecting room trial
The local council voted in favour of a trial for the supervised room for heroin users. But the Premier says the State Government won't consider it | ABC News, Australia
Victoria blocks supervised injecting room
A proposal for a medically supervised injecting room in one of Melbourne's inner-city suburbs has been dismissed by the Victorian Government | ABC News, Australia
Alcohol and assault on Friday and Saturday nights
Findings from the DUMA program. Download of paper | Australian Institute of Criminology