DS Daily - 30th January 2012 |
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Response on diphenylprolinol (D2PM) and diphenylmethylpyrrolidine
A response to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs' further advice on D2PM and diphenylmethylpyrrolidine - Download | Home Office, UK
Scottish drug education fell short of evidence-based practice
Extensive audit of school drug education in Scotland found that in key respects teaching departed from what research had shown effective in prevention terms | Drug and Alcoho Findings, UK
Video - Drug Education and PSHE
We recently asked our Chair, Brian Dobson, to reflect on the position of drug education within PSHE, and how this might be supported as a result of the Department for Education's PSHE review | Drug Education Forum, UK
Health Minister Launches New Strategy To Address Alcohol And Drug Misuse
Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots has outlined his commitment to addressing the issue of alcohol misuse at the first ever formal North/South Conference on alcohol misuse | eGov Monitor, UK
Hepatitis C and HIV Co-infection
Approximately 9% of HIV positive people in the UK are co-infected with hepatitis C | NAT, UK
Grounds for optimism in difficult times...
CEO Annual Report | Lifeline, UK
Vilified for telling the truth
The Christian GP whose life was made hell after he questioned the legalise drugs campaign | Daily Mail, UK
Heroin in the supermarket... why ever not, Sir Richard?
Sir Richard Branson says he doesn’t want to see drugs sold in supermarkets. Why not? That is the logic of his opinions, and I can’t see why he won’t just say so. Is he afraid it will damage his funky brand? - Peter Hitchens | Daily Mail, UK
How is the NHS performing?
Many NHS hospitals will struggle to deliver productivity improvements essential to maintaining quality and avoiding significant cuts to services, according to our latest quarterly monitoring report | The King's Fund, UK
Blunt speaking on town hall cuts
"Stop believing what the government tells you" - advice from one senior executive in a Conservative-controlled council in England on local government cuts | BBC, UK
Minimum alcohol price tag to be introduced on Merseyside
The proposed 50p per unit cost is intended to stop supermarkets selling cheap booze as loss-leaders fuelling binge drinking amongst local youngsters | Daily Mail, UK
The futility of running a war against vices
Reforms to curb the use of substances such as alcohol and tobacco in Ireland have all tended to follow a similar trend. The government of the day initially talks of a malaise afflicting the population, then passes a reform aimed at fixing it, only for statistics to later affirm the pathetic deficiency of its actions | Independent, Ireland
Ban on drink firms sponsoring sport urged by report
A ban on all alcohol sponsorship of sporting and large outdoor events, a ban on all outdoor advertising of alcohol, an increase in the excise duties on some alcohol products and the introduction of a minimum price per gram of alcohol are among the recommendations in the forthcoming National Substance Misuse Strategy, 2009 -2016 | Irish Times
Davos 2012: Youth unemployment 'disaster'
Davos is used to bluster from political leaders. But when usually quietly spoken company bosses from all corners of the earth warn of "not a crisis, but a disaster," when they call something a "cancer in society," you know we have a problem | BBC, UK
Ritalin Gone Wrong
Are these drugs really helping children? Should we really keep expanding the number of prescriptions filled? | New York Times, USA
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner’s Guide
NIAAA developed the Guide and Pocket Guide in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics, a team of underage drinking researchers and clinical specialists, and practicing health care professionals - Download | NIAAA, USA
Ads are targeting alcopops drinkers on trainer wheels, says expert
Easy-to-drink products along with social media marketing and product placement are part of a growing trend of alcohol marketing to teenagers, according to a leading public health expert | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Found at last: drug container located on state's south coast
NSW drug squad detectives have located a missing shipping container with drugs concealed inside as part of an ongoing investigation into a large-scale drug importation | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Police step up action over 10yo drinkers
Authorities in Tasmania are targeting parents over a worrying trend in under age drinking which is seeing children as young 10 being picked up drunk on the streets | ABC News, Australia
Frenetic pace of Ethiopia's khat boomtown
The global trade in khat is worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year and in one Ethiopian town daily life centres almost entirely around the drug | BBC, UK
Save West Africa from the drugs barons
Trafficking is endangering the fragile democracies of this vulnerable region - Kofi Annan | Observer, UK