DS Daily - 26th November 2012 |
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Cameron to set minimum price for alcohol
PM to publish plan this week to tackle binge drinking by outlawing cheap drink | Independent, UK
Cabinet split over plan to introduce alcohol levy
Ministers are locked in a row over plans to introduce a minimum price for alcohol of around 45p a unit in an attempt to tackle binge drinking | Telegraph, UK
The modern face of hardship
There are now more adults in poverty from working households than from homes where no one works | Independent, UK
Beware the Prozac Prowler
Our growing reliance on tranquilisers and antidepressants is ruining lives and relationships | Telegraph, UK
Amy Winehouse's father says David Cameron is losing the drugs war
Mitch Winehouse, the father of Amy Winehouse, says politicians have been interested only in 'photo opportunities' | Telegraph, UK
Mind-bending behind bars: drug use in British prisons
This is the full text of the 2012 Longford Lecture given by Will Self at Church House Westminster on November 22 | Telegraph, UK
War on drugs: Campaigning countess winning support to change world laws
Amanda Fielding, the countess of Wemyss and March, is being taken seriously in her quest to change drug policy across the world after years of being portrayed as an eccentric aristocrat | Observer, UK
Is this the 'tobacco moment' for cannabis?
The first in a groundbreaking series by Patrick Cockburn on the lessons of his son’s psychosis | Independent, UK
Professor Griffith Edwards - obituary
Professor Griffith Edwards, who has died aged 83, was responsible for defining the modern concept of addiction used by the World Health Organisation (WHO) | Telegraph, UK
How to catch an international cocaine baron: Hunting one of Britain's most elusive drugs lords
A scrap of paper with a Spanish mobile number was all the police needed to track down one of Britain’s most devious drug barons | Mail Online, UK
Thames Valley Police ponder strong alcohol ban
A scheme to limit the sale of super strength lagers could be coming to town centres in the Thames Valley | BBC, UK
Plain packs will make no difference to illegal tobacco trade, says report
The introduction of plain cigarette packaging in the United Kingdom would not boost the illegal tobacco trade, says a report commissioned by Cancer Research UK | BMJ, UK
Reporting poverty: a resource for journalism tutors and students
How can poverty be reported fairly and authoritatively? | JRF, UK
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2012
The extent of in-work poverty is laid bare in a new Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) report today, which highlights the insecurity faced by millions of working people | JRF, UK
Government announces Social Outcomes Fund to help charities win payment-by-results contracts
Francis Maude, minister for the Cabinet Office, says the £20m fund is 'an opportunity for social organisations to approach commissioners with new ideas for bonds' | Third Sector, UK
Scientists Have Developed A System To Quickly Detect Trace Amounts Of Chemicals Like Pollutants, Explosives Or Illegal Drugs
The new system can pick out a single target molecule from 10 000 trillion water molecules within milliseconds, by trapping it on a self-assembling single layer of gold nanoparticles | Medical News Today, UK
"Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón
ENDING the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president | Economist, UK
Noel Gallagher is right - we shouldn't freak out if our kids take drugs
The former Oasis leader claims it will be fine if his children take drugs "in moderation" - and columnist Andy Dawson agrees | Mirror, UK
The House I Live In is a disturbing and personal landmark documentary
Film review: The House I Live In is a provocative documentary on the doomed American 'war on drugs' | Metro, UK
Smoking 'rots' brain, says King's College study
Smoking "rots" the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to researchers at King's College London | BBC, UK
Britain and the bottle
Comment is free piece on alcohol use in the UK | Guardian, UK
Cash injection will fund extra staff in Bradford
Doctors in charge of NHS spending in the district have pledged to make tackling the harm caused by alcohol a priority | Bradford Telegraph & Argus, UK
Hemp: Could the US rekindle its love affair?
Hemp, once a major US crop, has been banned for years because of its close association with cannabis. But several states now want to resume hemp farming... | BBC Magazine, UK
UNAIDS Report: No Love for Drug Users
In Eastern Europe and Central Asia (where four of every five HIV cases are among people who inject drugs), new HIV infections and AIDS deaths are increasing faster than anywhere in the world | Open Society Foundations, USA
Taking Back the Joint
If they want to sell a consistent message of limited government, the GOP should stand with Washington and Colorado | National Review Online, USA
Legalizing And Regulating Pot: A Growth Industry
If legalization is here to stay, Dokoupil says Colorado's tightly regulated for-profit medical marijuana market will likely be the basis for the legalized recreational markets in other states as well | NPR, USA
Drug testing pits privacy against safety
Canada doesn't have much experience with random on-the-job drug and alcohol testing. That may be about to change | Edmonton Journal, Canada
THAILAND: Question marks over new approach to drug-users
In Sept 2011, the government of Thailand moved to try and decrease the number of drug-users by 80 percent by adopting a more “softly, softly” approach... Progress on drug addiction is being made, say experts, but challenges remain | IRIN Global
Hot market for 'legal' cocaine
Adult stores are selling a synthetic cocaine called White Bull for $100 a gram | The Age.com.au, Australia
Alcohol a real age-old issue
It is called the ''silver tsunami'', the wave of ageing baby boomers about to hit the health system with alcohol and drug problems | The Age.com.au, Australia
Doctors steering clear of addicts
EFFORTS to tackle the abuse of prescription painkillers such as fentanyl are being hampered by a severe shortage of doctors prepared to deal with drug addicts and a lack of treatment programs | The Age.com.au, Australia
Synthetic cannabis ingredient banned
Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has ordered a temporary ban on a synthetic cannabis ingredient, he announced today | New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
Liquor lobbyists press Collins
Justice Minister Judith Collins met liquor industry lobbyists repeatedly in the weeks before the Government's controversial U-turn on measures to restrict sales of alcopops, official papers reveal | Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand