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Report estimates number of crimes prevented by drug treatment
Every £100 invested in drug treatment services prevents a crime being committed, according to a study released today - 'Estimating the Crime Reduction Benefits of Drug Treatment and Recovery' | National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK
Government crack down on drug driving menace
The Government announced plans today to crack down on those who drive while under the influence of drugs | Department of Transport, UK
Social Networking and Teen Drug Use
Tremendous Potential to Help - and Harm | Psychiatric Times
Latest document form ACPO and IPCC says hospital and not custody suite is place for seriously impaired detainees
A definition of what it means to be “drunk and incapable” has been included in latest guidance on the safer handling of detainees in custody for the first time | ACPO and IPCC, UK
Young women facing 'serious harm' to liver from alcohol
More women in their 20s are suffering from severe liver damage as the result of excessive alcohol consumption, a senior doctor in Norfolk has warned | BBC, UK
Dentists or doctors?
Alcohol abusers should be screened by dental staff claims new report – yet Manchester experts cautious | Mancunian Matters, UK
Drinking Frequency as a Brief Screen for Adolescent Alcohol Problems
Drinking frequency provides an empirically supported brief screen to efficiently identify youth with alcohol-related problems | Pediatrics
400 no-go areas for ambulance staff
The spokesman said alcohol was a key factor in most cases where crews were threatened or assaulted | The Herald, Scotland, UK
Big Lottery Fund to back long-term projects on complex social problems
England director Dharmendra Kanani says the BLF will put hundreds of millions of pounds into initiatives lasting up to eight years | Third Sector, UK
The impact of employment changes on poverty in 2020
How will changes in the structure of employment and pay affect income inequality and poverty levels by 2020? - Summary - Full report | Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK
Families given one-year notice of benefit cap
The government is writing to thousands of families across the country this week, giving them one year’s notice of the impending cap on welfare benefits | Children & Young People Now, UK
Youth offending team budgets take seven per cent hit
Central funding for youth offending teams from the Youth Justice Board has been cut by nearly seven per cent this year, it has been confirmed | Children & Young People Now, UK
Winners of the SMMGP 2012 Essay Competition
The first and second prize-winning entries for our 2012 Essay Competition for Undergraduate Medical Students and Postgraduate Registrars | SMMGP, UK
Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education
Our findings challenge the single-disease framework by which most health care, medical research, and medical education is configured. A complementary strategy is needed, supporting generalist clinicians to provide personalised, comprehensive continuity of care, especially in socioeconomically deprived areas | The Lancet, UK
Department of Health statement of strategy 2011-2014
The health and wellbeing of our population is shaped by our environment and by personal decisions such as smoking, alcohol and drug misuse, physical activity and healthy eating | Department of Health, Ireland
Heroin deaths spark fears for city’s addicts
Contaminated heroin may have caused the deaths of twin brothers found dead yesterday in a rented Limerick apartment - and there are fears many more heroin users may have used a similar batch | Irish Examiner
Kerry gardaí lead initiative to crack down on underage drinking
Gardaí are leading an initiative to crack down on alcohol misuse in Kerry, in particular underage drinking and drink-related crime | Irish Examiner
Senate Inquiry Into Painkiller Makers’ Ties
Two senior senators said on Tuesday that they had opened an investigation into financial ties between producers of prescription painkillers and pain experts, patient advocacy groups and organizations that set guidelines on how doctors use the drugs | New York Times, USA
The paradox of painkillers
Salem Hospital takes steps to reduce excessive prescriptions as overdose deaths rise | Statesman Journal, USA
Just How “New” is the 2012 National Drug Control Strategy?
Some have hailed the Obama administration’s 2012 National Drug Control Strategy as a revolutionary shift toward a public health approach to the nation’s drug problems. Others have panned it as nothing new | WOLA, USA
Anti-Smoking Drug Decreases Alcohol Consumption in Heavy-Drinking Smokers
The smoking cessation drug varenicline significantly reduced alcohol consumption in a group of heavy-drinking smokers, in a study carried out by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the | University of California, San Francisco, USA
Cannabis and its Effects on Pilot Performance and Flight Safety: A Review
Significantly, the modern dose of cannabis is much more potent than in the past, when the majority of the research was conducted. As such, the reported adverse health effects may well be conservative - Report | Australian Government
Reduce your use: how to break the cannabis habit
If you think your cannabis use is a problem for you, then this free online program may help you to cut back and even stop your use altogether | National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, Australia
Legalising drugs opens door to social cancer
The proposal to legalise illegal drugs is a policy in search of a disaster. This is a policy that is often called for by well-meaning middle-class professionals who live far from the communities that have been most affected by the problem of illegal drugs - Neil McKeganey | The West Australian
Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Instability
The complex relationship between human security, crime, illicit economies, and law enforcement. It also seeks to disentangle the linkages between insurgency on the one hand and drug trafficking and organized crime | Strategic Studies Institute