DS Daily - 27th September 2011 |
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Survey - 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 facing the sector in delivering the drugs strategy and supporting recovery | Recovery Partnership, UK
Survey - Continued Access to Maintenance Prescribing England 3rd Quarter 2011
As an organisation we're receiving very mixed reports from service users. Some are describing a situation where they are being very assertively asked or even told to consider abstinence as their next goal in treatment. Others are describing refusal of detox or reduction. To help us better understand this, we are asking people to complete a very quick survey of people's current experience of drug treatment - particularly in terms of substitute prescribing | The Alliance, UK
Survey - For anyone with a family member who has had drug or alcohol problems
Survey from | Addaction, UK
Club drug clinic opens its doors
NHS takes 70 referrals to treatment centre for new generation of designer drugs before its official launch | Guardian, UK
Risks from forced detoxification from heroin are being ignored, conference hears
Changes of policy on provision of services to drug users risk forcing thousands of people into detoxification and abstinence programmes before they are ready, a primary care specialist in drug misuse has warned. The potential consequences could be fatal | BMJ, UK
Public drinking ban considered in Rhondda Cynon Taf
Restrictions on drinking alcohol in public places could be imposed across Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) to tackle anti-social behaviour | BBC, UK
Evaluating the extent of rough sleeping
This toolkit is intended to help local authorities, in partnership with other local agencies, to evaluate the extent of rough sleeping | Homeless Link, UK
Squatting law is being misrepresented to aid ministers' reforms, claim lawyers
Letter from 160 leading legal figures says law change is not needed and accuses ministers of fostering 'ill-informed debate' | Guardian, UK
George Osborne is warned of disaster over welfare reforms
Flagship reforms of the welfare system are in serious danger of arriving late and billions of pounds over budget, or even failing altogether, Treasury officials have told ministers | Telegraph, UK
Coroner ‘amazed’ more don’t die from binge drinking
The recently-retired Dublin coroner has expressed concern about binge drinking among young people and said it is surprising that greater numbers do not die from the effects of alcohol, considering what they drink | Irish Examiner
The effect of tobacco control policies on smoking prevalence and smoking-attributable deaths
Findings from the Netherlands SimSmoke Tobacco Control Policy Simulation Model | Addiction Journal
'Wet shelters' can reduce crime, advocates say
Homeless shelters that make controlled amounts of alcohol available for addicts would help reduce violence in downtown Edmonton, advocates say | CBC, Canada
Go-for-it approach helps US dual diagnosis patients find jobs
Compared to more gradualist approaches, with appropriate support targeted at rapidly achieving this objective, far more mentally ill problem substance users in the USA were enabled to find competitive employment in the open labour market rather than sheltered placements | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
SAMHSA awards $22.5 million to advance state substance abuse prevention planning
46 grant awards for $22.5 million over the next year to help states, tribes and territories enhance their substance abuse prevention efforts | SAMHSA, USA
Kits Using Naloxone Revive Addicts After Opiate Overdose
Used for decades by surgeons and paramedics, the drug has been shown to work when administered by bystanders in American cities | New York Times, USA
Trouble With Marijuana Arrests
Commissioner Raymond Kelly of the New York Police Department came forthwith too little, too late when he issued a memo directing officers not to arrest people caught with small amounts of marijuana unless the drug is in plain public view. A 1977 law decriminalized minor possession, yet tens of thousands are arrested every year | New York Times, USA
Inmates 'denied' hepatitis care: Libs
ACT prisoners face inadequate health care with one-third of hepatitis C-infected inmates waiting for treatment, according to the Canberra Liberals | Canberra Times, Australia