DS Daily - 21st February 2012 |
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DrugScope response to JSNA and JHWS consultation
DrugScope response to Department of Health consultation on guidance for joint strategic needs assessments and health and wellbeing strategies | DrugScope, UK
Glasgow drug users warned of HIV cluster
A warning has been issued to injecting drug users in the west of Scotland following a cluster of new cases of HIV infection | BBC, UK
Warning to addicts amid HIV increase
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said six cases were diagnosed in the city in about two months and urged addicts to seek help and avoid sharing needles | The Scotsman, UK
NxtGen - Heroin
You Tube video - Song I wrote when I was a lot younger (about 6 years ago) - My dad is on a full recovery from drugs now and I am very proud of him for that | You Tube
Comparing media and family predictors of alcohol use: a cohort study of US adolescents
The results suggest that family focused interventions would have a larger impact on alcohol onset while limiting media and marketing exposure could help prevent both onset and progression | BMJ Open, UK
Big screen binge: Underage drinking linked to films featuring alcohol
Children aged 10 to 14 who watch a lot of movies featuring alcohol are twice as likely to drink, according to new research | Daily Mail, UK
Plain Packaging
Commercial expression, anti-smoking extremism and the risks of hyper-regulation | Adam Smith Institute, UK
Charities slam tobacco packaging report
Anti-smoking campaigners have criticised claims that plain packaging for cigarettes will have no public health benefit | Cancer Research UK
Apex critical of implementation of Work Programme
Alan Staff, Chief Executive of Apex Scotland, has written a piece for SCCCJ on the Work Programme and the implications for ex-offenders seeking work | Scottish Consortium for Crime and Criminal Justice, UK
We are always moving towards failure
While appearing at a literary festival in Berlin, Irvine Welsh spoke to us about class, drugs, fate and the essential glamour of cinema | The Economist
Government is to Restrict Drug Laws in Hungary
The HCLU is fighting the proposal of the government to criminalize more young people for drug related offences | Drug Reporter, Hungary
Cannabis-based drugs may be available on prescription soon
Cannabis-based medicinal products, such as Sativex, could soon be available to sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and other medical conditions on prescription | Irish Times
Clearing The Smoke on Medical Marijuana, Part II
This final part focuses on the issues brought up by the governors in their rescheduling petition | Join Together, USA
Chronic Pain Fuels Boom in Opioids
Fueling that surge was a network of pain organizations, doctors and researchers that pushed for expanded use of the drugs while taking in millions of dollars from the very companies that made them | MedPage Today, USA
Chalerm seeks speedy killing of drug convicts
A legal study is underway at the order of Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung to find out whether drug-related convicts on death row could be executed within 60 days after final verdicts have been reached, in an attempt to combat rampant drug dealing | The Nation, Thailand
Poppy fields in Burma destroyed to curb opium production
Among the political and economic reforms launched by Burmese President, Thein Sein, is the aim to make the country drugs free by 2014 | BBC, UK
“We have enough evidence to act. Now!”
Successful Global Alcohol Policy Conference in Bangkok | Alcohol, Drugs and Development, Norway