DS Daily - 24th April 2012 |
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Survey
What do you think about multiple needs & exclusions and the work of Making Every Adult Matter? | MEAM, UK
Making Naloxone Work - Video
This film looks at some of the obstacles and challenges to setting up effective naloxone distribution that were faced by Swansea Drugs Project - by ExchangeSupplies | You Tube
Clustering of substance use and sexual risk behaviour in adolescence
Analysis of two cohort studies | British Medical Journal
Mental health: we need to talk
Advisory booklet - Promoting positive mental health at work | ACAS, UK
Duncan Selbie confirmed as Chief Executive Designate of Public Health England
Mr Selbie, currently Chief Executive of Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, will head up Public Health England (PHE), the new public health body that will be the expert voice for public health, when it is established in April 2013 | Department of Health, UK
I predict trouble ahead for public health
Moving public health to local government is a huge cultural shift, warns Dick Vinegar, the Patient from Hell | Guardian, UK
Health Secretary sets out objectives for NHS Commissioning Board Authority
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has set out the Government’s strategic objectives for the NHS Commissioning Board Authority and the basis against which the Authority will be held to account - Letter from Andrew Lansley to Professor Malcolm Grant, Chairman, NHS Commissioning Board Authority | Department of Health, UK
Customs watch post for head shop drugs
Customs officials are vigilantly monitoring the post to try and pick up illegal head shop-style drugs | Irish Examiner
Heroin users are fitter than you think
Professor Joanne Neale from Oxford Brookes University in the UK presented interim results at the NDARC seminar series from three studies looking at physical activity among heroin users | NDARC, Australia
Study finds alcohol ads get to at least a quarter of kids
Half the alcohol ads shown on Australian television are shown at a time when at least 25 per cent of possible child viewers will be watching, new research led by the University of WA has found | SMH, Australia
Fresh calls to tax alcohol per standard drink
WA medical experts have backed a submission to the Federal Budget calling for alcoholic drinks to be taxed according to their alcohol content, which would increase the cost of cleanskin and cask wine and traditional ciders | SMH, Australia
Crime generates 3.6% of world GDP, says UN official
Criminal business is one of top 20 economies, making about $2.1 trillion a year, says head of UN office on drugs and crime | Guardian, UK
London 2012: Anti-doping laboratory gets green light
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has accredited the facility which will test athletes for banned substances | BBC, UK