DS Daily - 15th March 2012 |
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IAPT positive practice guide for working with people who use drugs and alcohol
This guide seeks to assist IAPT teams and substance misuse services to work confidently and inclusively with those who have drink or drug problems and common mental health problems | National Treatment Agency and DrugScope
Truth about young people and drugs revealed in Guardian survey
Poll carried out with Mixmag magazine shows reckless behaviour of high-risk drug takers | Guardian, UK
Guardian/Mixmag drug survey reveals a generation happy to chance it
Data shows predominantly white, educated and relatively healthy users willing to take significant risks with their health | Guardian, UK
Cannabis users find synthetic pot more harmful than natural weed
Guardian/Mixmag survey results appear to back up concerns in the US media over risks associated with synthetic cannabis | Guardian, UK
Which drug do you take? US and the UK compared by the global drug survey
The Guardian/Mixmag global drug survey asked 15,500 people from the US, UK and around the world about their drug use - Full data | Guardian, UK
Drug use: 20 things you might not know - animation
This animation explains some of the key findings from the UK and the US of the Guardian/Mixmag Global Drug Survey of over 15,000 people. Where do you fit in? | Guardian, UK
Guardian/Mixmag drug survey results: 'it's a hobby' - video
A generation who are happy with their lives, relationships and careers, and like to use drugs for pleasure | Guardian, UK
'Hidden' drug users who won't be found burgling your home to fund their habit
These detailed new insights reveal that despite media hype around illicit substances, alcohol is the bigger problem | Guardian, UK
How the Guardian/Mixmag survey was constructed
Survey collected the experiences of 15,500 drug users during a four week period between November and December | Guardian, UK
After phone calls need to do more than check progress to make a difference
At Philadelphia clinics seeing alcohol- (and often cocaine-) dependent patients, spending on average another nine minutes to offer counselling as well as progress checks during aftercare phone calls made the difference between a programme which did rather than did not consistently improve on usual arrangements | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
New Adfam guides: Surviving the Transition
In response to a changing and challenging environment for family support services, Adfam has published 2 new guides to help organisations survive the financial, administrative and political transition. Surviving the Transition: Organisational Health and Surviving the Transition:Local Structures and Networks | Adfam, UK
Social change can be the best contraception
There is a clear call for a co-ordinated approach between local sexual health and alcohol services. But health promotion messages pale in the face of the advertising might of the global drinks industry | Guardian, UK
Scottish Parliament supports alcohol minimum pricing bill
Plans for a minimum unit price for alcohol have been approved in principle by the Scottish Parliament | BBC, UK
News Analysis: Can NHS reforms cut alcohol abuse?
The alcohol strategy for England, expected to be launched later this month, will set out the government's programme for tackling alcohol misuse | GP, UK
Teenagers from Nottingham Academy learn alcohol dangers
Pupils at the new Nottingham Academy will spend the next six weeks learning about the dangers of alcohol abuse | This is Nottingham, UK
Child alcohol awareness 'higher than for some foods'
Children as young as 10 are more familiar with some alcohol brands and adverts than those for popular foods and snacks, research shows | BBC, UK
Smoking: Tenovus calls for outright ban in Wales
Cardiff-based Tenovus said that after chipping away at smoking in various public places it was time "to think about the bigger question" | BBC, UK
Overcrowded prison system an absolute disaster, report finds
Fr McVerry said about half of the 4,400 prison population had addiction issues yet there were only nine drug-treatment beds in the prison system | Irish Times
CDC to launch largest and most graphic anti-smoking ad campaign
Tobacco taxes and smoking bans haven’t budged the U.S. smoking rate in years. Now the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with a graphic nationwide advertising campaign | Washington Post, USA
Long work hours linked to alcohol risk for nurses, midwives
A new study, published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, surveyed 4419 nurses and midwives, including 867 nurses from New Zealand, using a large cohort from a longitudinal population-based study of nurses in Australia and New Zealand, and midwives in Australia | Scoop, New Zealand
Traffickers using "limitless" ways to disguise manufacture of party pills
Traffickers are effectively playing cat-and-mouse with law enforcement authorities in their efforts to manufacture highly lucrative synthetic drugs | UNODC