DS Daily - 2nd October 2012 |
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Domino Effects: The impact of localism and austerity on services for young people and on drug problems
This briefing reviews the changes that are occurring to services for young people at the local level and considers the potential impact of these for drug problems. Download | UKDPC
Cuts 'threaten drug abuse progress'
Funding cuts and reforms to public services risk reversing the declining trend in drug abuse among young people, campaigners have warned | The Press, UK
A new approach to commissioning mutual aid services
As the drug treatment system gears up to transfer commissioning responsibilities to local authorities, commissioners are looking at new ways to commission services for a recovery focused treatment system in order to improve outcomes for service users. Article | NTA, UK
Drug mixed with alcohol is a 'devastating cocktail'
Possession of the drug has risen by more than 400 per cent over the past year in Carmarthenshire, while the director of Swansea Drugs Project, Ifor Glyn, has said he had never seen a drug take hold in South West Wales so quickly in his 20 years of working as a drug therapist | This is South Wales, UK
Drug testing on arrest extended to Hereford
An initiative in which people arrested for burglary are tested for Class A drugs is being rolled out across the West Mercia Police force area | BBC, UK
Millions of patients are hooked on tranquillisers with some using pills for 20 years
Although guidelines state benzodiazepines should only be used for a maximum of a month, many users are becoming dependent | Daily Mail, UK
Is the teen rebel a dying breed?
So what is going on? When it comes to smoking and drinking and taking drugs, British teenagers are behaving better than their parents - Mark Easton | BBC, UK
How MI5 plotted to destroy The Stones
The astonishing truth behind the drug raid that saw Jagger jailed | Daily Mail, UK
Acid test for implementing evidence-based treatment
This major US study addressed what many see as the key issue in advancing evidence-based practice - not identifying those practices, but getting them implemented in the real world. If this proved difficult in these best-case scenarios, it would be even more so without the support of a research project and in less promising jurisdictions | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Stoptober
A new stop smoking campaign - Stoptober - officially kicks off today with support from celebrities nationwide | Department of Health, UK
Supreme Court date for Imperial Tobacco challenge to cigarette display ban
The Scottish government's decision to ban the open display of cigarettes in shops is facing a fresh legal challenge | BBC, UK
Integration of health and social care services
NICE to develop further quality standards promoting the integration of health and social care services | NICE, UK
Healthwatch England launched
Healthwatch England, the new national, statutory consumer champion for health and social care in England,is launched today | Department of Health, UK
Cost of a Child 2012
At a time when many families are finding it hard to make ends meet, how much does it cost to bring up a child to meet their needs to a decent minimum standard? report from | Child Poverty Action Group, UK
Editorial – Mobile safe injecting facilities in Barcelona and Berlin
In spite of the evidence of the positive public health effects of SIFs, they remain controversial in some jurisdictions. Download from International Journal of Drug Policy | INEF, Ireland
A call for pragmatism in clean-needle debate
Four AIDS groups and a former inmate have filed a lawsuit in Federal Court seeking a supervisory injunction – a court order that would force Ottawa to establish needle exchange programs in Canadian prisons | Globe and Mail, Canada
New Training Materials to Combat National Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic
New Online Training Tool for Healthcare Providers to Provide Vital Information on Proper Prescribing Practices for Painkillers; Expand Upon Administration Actions to Reduce Addiction, Overdose Deaths | NIDA, USA
Heroin addiction soars in Maine as treatment cuts take effect
American Society of Addiction Medicine reports that misuse of prescription drugs has dropped 5 percent nationally since 2010, but heroin use has doubled since 2007 | Morning Sentinel, USA
Op-ed: Don’t legalize marijuana. It’s addictive
Contrary to what baby boomers believe, marijuana is addictive and voters should reject Initiative 502 to legalize it, according to guest columnists Robert DuPont and Andrea Barthwell | Seattle Times, USA
Addicted to Painkillers, Unready for Help
I wondered aloud whether he feared the physical pain that existed apart from his addiction. Without looking at me, he nodded - Paul Christopher, M.D. | New York Times, USA
Doctors call for safe injecting room trial
The Victorian branch of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) wants a trial of safe injecting rooms in Melbourne | ABC News, Australia
Australian youth get their say on alcohol and drug policy
The Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) has commissioned the Drug Policy and Modelling Program (DPMP) and the Youth Support and Advocacy Service to survey 16 to 25 year-olds | NDARC, Australia
Winemakers 'proactive' in promoting safe drinking
Western Australia's peak wine body says wine producers in the state are already spruiking a message warning consumers not to drink alcohol during pregnancy | ABC News, Australia