DS Daily - 13th October 2011

Seven ways to reduce infections among people who inject drugs

Joint guidance report from ECDC and the EMCDDA

Parental substance misuse

New elearning materials for social workers | Social Care Institute for Excellence, UK

Police take drugs war to the streets

Many dawn raids were only possible because of information received from within the Rossmore community, which is anxious to shed its image as a magnet for criminal behaviour | Bournemouth Echo, UK

Payment by Results

Justice Minister Crispin Blunt spoke to BBC Radio 4's PM programme about reducing reoffending and the launch of a new 'Payment by Results' pilot at Doncaster Prison | Justice.gov, UK

Payment-by-results project bid to cut reoffending

A payment-by-results project at a prison could see more than 15,000 fewer offences a year if it hits its targets, a private security firm said yesterday | Independent, UK

Adopt ‘no second night out’ to help end rough sleeping

Charity calls on every council to adopt the ‘No Second Night Out’ standard | Homeless Link, UK

The Shelter Housing Databank brings together government data on housing need, supply, affordability and other issues at a local, regional and national level. You can view the data as a table or graph, or download it for further analysis | Guardian, UK

The Basement Recovery Project receives royal seal of approval

One of this year’s recipients is The Basement Recovery Project in Halifax, whose CEO Michelle Foster said “We are very proud to be recognised by the Duke of York’s Community Initiative for our work | Basement Recovery Project, UK

Louise Casey to head national unit for troubled families

Labour's former respect tsar Louise Casey is to lead the government's Troubled Families Team, charged with fulfilling the Prime Minister's goal to transform the lives of 120,000 troubled families by 2015 | Children & Young People Now, UK

The 'big society' Work Programme (and other myths)

The government lauded the Work Programme as a "big society boost" for local charities. But three new reports suggest large private corporations are shaping to be the real winnners - Patrick Butler's Cuts Blog | Guardian, UK

Wales must consider alcohol advertising ban to beat binge drinking problem, says minister

More restrictions on alcohol advertising - and even a ban - are needed if Wales is to win its fight against excessive drinking, Health Minister Lesley Griffiths said | Wales Online, UK

Binge-drinking ‘tide of harm’

Liver specialist Professor Sir Ian Gilmore said soaring hospital admissions caused by alcohol and an unprecedented rise in liver disease are placing a huge burden on the NHS | Daily Express, UK

Safe-injection sites to open next spring

Safe injection sites for heroin addicts and other IV drug users will likely open in Montreal and Quebec City next year | CTV, Canada

1 in 6 US therapists make substance use problems worse

1 in 6 therapists typically ended up with clients whose substance use problems were significantly worse than when they started therapy, the highest proportion among 12 symptom domains. The findings have far-reaching implications for staff training and monitoring | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK

Research to Look at New Treatments for Heroin Addiction

The Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (SALOME) is a carefully controlled three-year clinical trial that will test whether hydromorphone (Dilaudid(R)), a licensed pain medication, is as effective as diacetylmorphine, the active ingredient of heroin, at engaging the most vulnerable long-term street heroin users, so they will enroll in treatment programs and end their use of illicit drugs | Market Watch, USA

Drug tests get go-ahead

Employers will be able to force Victorian building workers to undergo compulsory drug and alcohol testing after a ''landmark'' ruling by Fair Work Australia - a decision that could have implications for workers in other industries | The Age, Australia

Senate Stalls World First Tobacco Legislation

For the second sitting week in succession, the Senate has failed to vote on the Government’s world first plain packaging tobacco legislation and has played into the hands of big tobacco | Department of Health and Ageing, Australia

UNODC-supported State Service on Drug Control in Kyrgyzstan showing results

Several recent operations conducted by Kyrgyzstan's State Service on Drug Control (SSDC) have resulted in the confiscation of drugs worth approximately US$ 1.35 million which were being smuggled as "bullets" - sealed packets of drugs swallowed to avoid detection | UNODC