DS Daily - 31st October 2011 |
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Recovery Partnership: Priorities and key messages survey
In mid-November the Recovery Partnership will be making a presentation to the Inter-Ministerial Group on Drugs on the key issues for treatment and supporting recovery. To inform the presentation please complete this survey | Recovery Partnership, UK
The needle and the damage done: the case for the self-destructing syringe
The WHO says 1.3 million people a year die because of the re-use of syringes. A British designer aims to change that | Guardian, UK
Drug hallucinations look real in the brain
The visions induced by an Amazonian brew used by shamans may be as real as anything the eyes actually see, according to brain scans of frequent users of the drug | New Scientist, UK
Dad and Me
Research into the problems caused by absent fathers | Addaction, UK
Children 'drinking adult alcohol intake'
Children as young as 12 claimed they drank the equivalent of 19 glasses of wine per week when questioned for a UK-wide survey of 83,000 school pupils - video | BBC, UK
Rising number of children in Wales addicted to booze and drugs
And the Welsh Government has revealed there were 479 referrals for children aged under 15 with drug or alcohol problems in 2010-11 | Wales Online, UK
Overexposed and overlooked
Young people’s views on the regulation of alcohol promotion | Alcohol Concern UK
Doctors should probe middle classes on their booze habits
Family doctors should question patients about how much they drink, in order to expose middle class bad habits, a leading think tank has said | Telegraph, UK
Offenders to be fitted with US sobriety bracelets
In what is believed to be a first outside the US, hundreds of violent offenders with alcohol-related problems in the west of Scotland will be fitted with electronic tags that can detect whether they have broken a ban on drinking while serving a community sentence | The Herald, Scotland, UK
Support grows for Minimum Pricing
A leading Canadian academic and major player in the alcohol industry have added their names to the growing list of supporters backing the Scottish Government's bid to introduce a minimum price for alcohol | Scottish Government, UK
Greene King brewery boss backs minimum alcohol pricing
Plans to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol would "go to the very heart" of Scotland's drink problems, a brewery boss has claimed | BBC, UK
Ipswich prostitution strategy works, says ex-sex worker
Now off the streets and off drugs, she is helping other women follow suit | BBC, UK
Women behaving badly
Calls to reform the sentencing of women are growing louder | The Economist, UK
Insider Access
Written, edited and published by offenders in prison and ex-offenders in the community | Insider Access, UK
South Wales Police back fingerprinting for clubbers
Police are encouraging nightclubs to use digital technology such as scanning people's fingerprints to help tackle problems with revellers | BBC, UK
HCVAction
The online home of the hepatitis C professional community | HCVAction, UK
Scots charities hit by £100m cash squeeze
Scotland’s charities and voluntary organisations are under “extreme pressure” with many having to lay off staff and dip into their lifeline reserves to ensure services are not cut back as the spending squeeze continues to bite, a new report warns today | The Scotsman, UK
Recorded crime quarter 3 2011
In Q3 2011, there were 4,766 recorded Controlled drug offences, a decrease of 15.0% on Q3 2010. There were 3,449 recorded offences of Possession of drugs forpersonal use offences in Q3 2011, a decrease of over 14% on the corresponding figure in Q3 2010 | Central Statistics Office, Cork, Ireland
Parental Substance Misuse
A new feature relating to the recent National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) report entitled Parental Substance Misuse: Addressing its Impact on Children | Drugs.ie, Ireland
ASAM's Policy Position on Marijuana Legalization
ASAM does not support any law or regulation or modification therein that results in a significant increase in the availability of any dependence-producing drug | American Society of Addiction Medicine, USA
State prisons need drug treatment alternative
The legislation - CS/HB 177 and SB 448 - establishes a re-entry program for nonviolent offenders that offers intensive substance abuse treatment, adult education courses and vocational training as alternatives to long prison sentences. Florida | Sun Sentinel, USA
TNI – IDPC Expert seminar on proportionality of sentencing for drug offences
The Expert Seminar on Proportionality of Sentencing for Drug Offences was an initiative of the Transnational Institute working together with the International Drug Policy Consortium (‘IDPC’) and co-hosted by the Sentencing Council of England and Wales - Download | IDPC
Sustained Efforts in Drug Control are Essential to Prevent Suffering
According to the President of the International Narcotics Control Board “the 102nd session provides a timely opportunity for the Board to review efforts at the international and national levels to implement the international drug control conventions | UNIS