DS Daily - 12th September 2011

Tackling homelessness and exclusion: Understanding complex lives

How can policy and practice more effectively tackle homelessness, and how does it overlap with people's other support needs? Summary | Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK

Drug and alcohol recovery pilots supporting material

As details of the approaches to be taken by the payment by results drug and alcohol recovery pilots are being developed, supporting material has been published | DoH, UK

Emerging Drug Trends in Lancashire

Focusing on young adults’ alcohol and drug use. Phase Two Report | Lancashire DAAT, UK

Markets meltdown leads to surge in City addictions

Counselling service founder says record numbers of workers in City of London seeking treatment for drug and alcohol problems | Guardian, UK

Amy Winehouse is still here with me ... we’ll save kids from drugs

As he launched a foundation in her name, Mitch, 60, said: "Amy is here right now. Kids need our help." | The Sun, UK

Alcohol-related services for offenders in Britain

The latest Effectiveness Bank bulletin highlights the workings and impacts of UK alcohol policies or initiatives for offenders; notable is the prison-community divide and general under resourcing | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK

Alcohol has become an important cause of death in patients with type 1 diabetes

Time trends in mortality in patients with type 1 diabetes: nationwide population based cohort study | BMJ, UK

The shocking facts about young people and alcohol abuse

We want to express our support for Dr Sarah Wollaston's private member's bill, calling for restrictions on alcohol advertising in cinemas, on television and online, as a means of reducing the number of children and young people harmed by alcohol (Letters, 7 September) | Guardian, UK

More and more drinkers head to the supermarket not the pub for a pint

Drinkers are choosing to buy more and more beer from supermarkets instead of propping up the bar of their local, new figures show | Daily Mail, UK

Work Programme leaves charities fearful for their future

"What we fear will happen is, in two years' time, people will wake up and say: 'We have got this a bit wrong, we need to go and speak again to the voluntary organisations,' and they'll find that they've had to shut down their services and the expertise has been lost." | Observer, UK