DS Daily - 1st March 2012 |
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Substance Misuse, July-September 2011
Statistics on Substance Misuse in Wales include data concerning people presenting to treatment services for substance misuse | Welsh Government, UK
Harm reduction interventions for opioid injectors
Current evidence on the effectiveness of the available harm reduction options for opioid injectors | EMCDDA
Borders heroin users issued with overdose reversal kits
It is part of the Scottish government's national programme to increase the availability of naloxone | BBC, UK
The prohibition of drugs has been an abject failure with a devastating human cost
Most opponents of prohibition would refrain from claiming that legalisation would provide a definitive solution to the problem of drug abuse. What we would argue, however, is that decriminalisation (at a minimum) is, unlike prohibition, not mired in political fantasy | Independent, UK
All 900 British Olympic and Paralympic athletes to face drug tests
UKAD, which has not confirmed exactly how many tests they will carry out, say their target is for every British athlete going to the Games to provide samples for analysis | Guardian, UK
Emergency ban extended on chemicals used in drugs that mimic pot
The Drug Enforcement Administration is extending for another six months its emergency ban on five chemicals used to make synthetic drugs such as Spice | CNN, USA
Making Cold Medicine Prescription-Only Did Not Reduce Meth Use
Supporters of the policy point to key measures of crime and drug usage to suggest that the law has been very successful. However, each such purported benefit is misleading. Download | National Center for Policy Analysis, USA
The decriminalisation (or even legalisation) of drugs
Drug prohibition carries the legacy of the ugly politics of the past. Once we realise that, we may start to rethink the justice of a war that is, in truth, not against drugs, but against drug users | ABC News, Australia
400 kids taken off Perth streets with alcohol and drugs
More than 400 at risk youth were collected off Perth's streets in recent months and of those more than half had drinking problems, according to police | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Meeting agenda for the Fifty-fifth session. Vienna, Austria, 12-16 March 2012 | UNODC