DS Daily - 20th September 2011

Residential rehabilitation (drugs and alcohol) service provider survey

The Recovery Partnership is preparing a paper for the Inter-Ministerial Group on Drugs on residential rehabilitation provision and support. We will be producing different surveys to help inform the paper and will be consulting widely with service providers, service users, membership bodies and others. Please complete this survey if you are a provider of a residential rehabilitation service or services. All responses will be confidential | The Recovery Partnership, UK

Recovery Partnership briefing for the Inter-Ministerial Group on Drug Policy

The "Payment by Results and Recovery" paper was discussed at the September meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group on Drugs | The Recovery Partnership, UK

Work Capability Assessment: Issues encountered by people with drug problems

The Work Capability Assessment - A Call for Evidence: Year 2 Independent Review, July 2011. A response co-ordinated by the | UK Drug Policy Commission

Free drug and alcohol awareness e-learning resource

A choice of two courses to complete | Kirklees Council, UK

Evidence based policy?

Why banning mephedrone may not have reduced harms to users | David Nutt's Blog, UK

Voices of experience: new Broadway research aims to help people move on from street drinking

Based on interviews with 61 current / former street drinkers, this research will help practitioners, commissioners and policymakers support people who drink on the streets to make positive changes in their lives. A workshop on the findings of this research will take place at the DrugScope conference on 2 November | Broadway, UK

Behavioural Insights Team Annual update 2010–11

Including: Alcohol – using multiple approaches | Cabinet Office, UK

Boris Johnson: 'stay sober, stay free from jail' says London mayor

Criminal alcoholics should be spared jail as long as they are subjected to twice daily breath tests, Boris Johnson has said | Telegraph, UK

Agencies must work together to prevent reoffending and homelessness

A new report by Homeless Link, the umbrella organisation for the homeless sector, calls for homelessness and criminal justice agencies to work together to prevent prison leavers reoffending or ending up on the street | Property Talk, UK

Effectiveness Bank passes million downloads mark!

Some time in the first fortnight of September 2011 the UK Effectiveness Bank passed a major milestone - the millionth download of its analyses of what works in the prevention, treatment and control of alcohol and drug problems | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK