DS Daily - 18th May 2012 |
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Annual review of the drug strategy 2010
The first annual review of the Drug Strategy 2010 provides a progress update on implementation of the Drug Strategy and includes an action plan for tackling the threat from new psychoactive substances - Download | Home Office, UK
Letter from the Home Secretary to Professor Les Iversen
Response from the Home Secretary to the ACMD’s Novel Psychoactive Substances report | Home Office, UK
Building recovery in communities
A summary of responses to the consultation | NTA, UK
LDAN Developing First Line Managers course now booking
This course is open to both LDAN and non-LDAN members. It is a programme of management development that has been developed to meet the training needs of people who have recently taken up positions of service managers and is particularly aimed at those who have moved from practitioner to management positions | London Drug and Alcohol Network, UK
Secure estate told to improve drug misuse services
Secure establishments holding under 18s in custody have been told to improve substance misuse services as part of a drive to prevent young offenders becoming drug dependent | Children & Young People Now, UK
Substance Use and Recessions
FEAD video by Dr Rosalie Pacula (Co-director RAND) | FEAD, UK
Alcohol prevention
What can be expected of a harm reduction focused school drug education programme? | Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy
The Housing Report 2
The challenges thrown up by Britain’s broken housing market continue to blight the lives, andfrustrate the ambitions, of growing numbers of people. That is why housing continues to deserve amore prominent place on the political agenda - Report | Shelter, UK
Crisis film exposes rising homelessness
Short film released by Crisis looks at the devastating consequences of rising homelessness | Crisis, UK
Cabinet Office considers appointing charity contracting rep
The Cabinet Office is looking at appointing a commissioning specialist to improve contracting relationships with the voluntary sector | Civil Society, UK
Minister to end alcohol sponsorship of sports
Alcohol sponsorship of sports events is to be ended, Minister of State for Health Róisín Shortall has pledged | Irish Times
Facing up to our drink problems
Recognising the damage alcohol abuse is causing to young people is one thing; doing something positive about it is another | Irish Times
Tackling the threat of organised drugs and financial crime
The public are being invited to submit their views about the draft Criminal Justice, Police Powers and Other Amendments Bill 2012 during a 10-week public consultation which started on Monday | Isle of Man News
Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program
2011 Annual Report | ONDCP, USA
More Than Half of Adult Male Arrestees Test Positive for at Least One Drug
Drug use and related crime strain the resources of this country. The latest evidence comes from the 2011 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Annual Report (ADAM II) which tests for drugs in adult males arrested for a wide variety of crimes in 10 sites across the country - R. Gil Kerlikowske | Huffington Post, USA
New York judge writes impassioned defense of medical marijuana
In a New York Times opinion piece, a sitting state supreme court judge writes of his cancer and the palliative drug he depends on | Guardian, UK
Illicit drug profiling
Animation to illustrate how the profiling of single sample of cocaine can identify source countries, manufacturing trends and added substances. Profiling information can assist law enforcement to complete the intelligence picture | Australian Crime Commission
Drug Use in New Zealand
Key results of the 2007/08 New Zealand Alcohol and Drug Use Survey | Ministry of Health, New Zealand