DS Daily - 16th March 2012 |
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Putting Full Recovery First - the Recovery Roadmap
This document, Putting Full Recovery First, outlines our roadmap for building a new treatment system based on our commitments made in the Drug Strategy: to restrict the supply of drugs; to reduce the demand for drugs; and to support individuals to be free of dependence | Home Office, UK
ACMD open meeting March 2012
Download and complete the form to register for the ACMD open meeting on 28 March 2012 | Home Office, UK
Recreational drug users take medicines to control side-effects, survey finds
Warning of long-term harm for those who take prescription drugs, such as sleeping pills, to deal with 'weekend high' | Guardian, UK
Drug users might give up if the warnings were plausible
The Guardian survey reveals that many people take drugs without suffering, but they are interested in evidence | Guardian, UK
Bristol drugs survey shows rise in laughing gas use
A survey has shown a rise in the use of ketamine and laughing gas in Bristol, according to Safer Bristol | BBC, UK
The War on Drugs Versus debate
It is time to legalise or get rid for good? | Mancunian Matters, UK
Alcohol Concern Cymru claims children exposed to drink advertising
Children are more likely to identify alcohol through advertising than popular food and snack brands, a health campaign group claims | BBC, UK
Minimum alcohol pricing vote won
The move towards minimum pricing of alcohol took a huge step forward last night when the bill passed its first stage at Holyrood without a single vote against | The Herald, Scotland, UK
Fixing Drugs: The Politics of Drug Prohibition
Book review - David Nutt applauds a well-balanced evaluation of narcotics law, with all its inconsistencies and flaws | Times Higher Education, UK
Latest edition of the MEAM newsletter
Whether travelling the country to meet delegates at our regional events; continuing to support our three pilot services; or working to influence national policy, we continue to be inspired by the commitment from individuals and agencies who work together in more coordinated ways to tackle multiple needs and exclusions | MEAM, UK
Questionnaire
EMCDDA Questionnaire for services providing drug prevention interventions to ethnic minority/migrant/immigrant populations | Drug Education Forum, UK
Greece on the breadline
The extraordinary increase in HIV/Aids among drug users, due largely to the suspension or cancellation of free needle exchange programmes, has been accompanied by a 52% increase in the general population | Guardian, UK
Two arrested after €1m drugs seizure
A drugs gang was left reeling last night after an intelligence-led operation involving customs officers and gardai resulted in the seizure of drugs worth nearly €1m. Two men were arrested | Independent, Ireland
Alcohol consumption increases
The amount of alcohol being consumed by Irish adults increased last year for the second year in a row, provisional figures from the Central Statistics Office and Revenue Commissioners show | Irish Times
Alcohol advertisers to be 'named and shamed' by new review board
A coalition of health campaign groups will today launch an independent Alcohol Advertising Review Board, claiming the industry has become out of control | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
UNODC Global SMART Update Volume 7
The Global SMART Update is a brief update which focuses on developments in the fast changing synthetic drug market | UNODC
Letter to the International Narcotics Control Board on Capital Punishment for Drug Offences
That the INCB takes no position on the death penalty for drug-related offences stands in stark contradiction to the opinions of many other UN bodies that have criticised capital drug laws as a violation of the right to life | IHRA