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2012 Druglink Street Drug Trends Survey ...
Street Drug Trends survey - for professionals who provide services to drug users
This survey if you provide treatment/generic services to people who use drugs, are someone who uses drugs or are in recovery, or work in an academic setting | DrugScope, UK
Street Drug Trends survey - criminal justice
This survey if you work in enforcement, prison, probation or any other criminal justice setting | DrugScope, UK
Can drug services cope with an influx of the 'Trainspotting generation'?
Ageing heroin users with long-term health problems are now a major challenge for treatment services facing cuts in funding | Guardian, UK
Dumfries and Galloway drugs haul worth £330,000 seized
The cannabis, heroin, cocaine and amphetamines were discovered between Friday and Monday | BBC, UK
Drug Facts : Synthetic Cannabinoids
Product Names include: Spice, Aztec Gold, Doob, Blue Cheese, Black Mamba, Cobra, Annihilation and many others. Many of the names are similar to strains or forms of cannabis. Also referred to as: synthetic canna, Incense, Smoking Mixture, Pot Pourri | KFx, UK
Teenager's stomach removed after drinking cocktail
A teenager has had emergency surgery to remove her stomach after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen | BBC, UK
Alcohol industry 'should not be using nitrogen', says NHS director - video
Paul Ashton, director of public health for NHS Cumbria, says the alcohol industry should not be playing with dangerous chemicals such as nitrogen after a teenager had to have her stomach removed | Guardian, UK
Presentations from the 2012 Hot Topics Conference
An article written by Jamie Bridge for Drink Drug News magazine about the 2012 Hot Topics conference, and you can view all the presentations from the day from the list to the right of the article | Hot Topics, UK
Over the Limit: The Truth about Families and Alcohol,
The report warns that too many parents remain oblivious to the negative effects that alcohol can have on their parenting. An alarming 19% believe alcohol has a positive effect on their parenting ability and 62% of parents say that their drinking behaviour has no impact on their family at al | 4 Children, UK
Eric Pickles: Troubled families programme on track
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has today announced that the Government's Troubled Families initiative is on track, with councils committed to start working with more than a third of families in the first year of a three-year programme | Communities and Local Government, UK
Briefing for Police and Crime Commissioner Candidates
Working across the criminal justice system - opportunities to cut crime and reduce reoffending. Paragraph 4. Drug and alcohol use | Criminal Justice Alliance
Having and Keeping a Home
Steps to preventing homelessness among young peopleEqual Opportunities Committee | Scottish Government, UK
Homeless young people failed by lack of support
Homeless young people are being failed by a lack of support in overcoming inadequate life skills, compounded by substandard accommodation and isolation, according to a report published by the Equal Opportunities Committee | Scottish Government, UK
'Rehabilitation revolution' planned
Chris Grayling will champion the use of payment by results across the public and private sector as part of a "rehabilitation revolution", he told Tory activists | MSN
George Osborne seals deal for £10bn welfare cuts
Conservatives claim Liberal Democrats have agreed to plan provided that rich are targeted next | Guardian, UK
Welfare reform debate ignores the facts about poverty
We also know that a very high percentage of the 'welfare bill' goes to people who work. In a very real sense the welfare budget benefits landlords charging extortionate rents, because they can, and employers paying minimal, erratic and unreliable wages, because they can. Many landlords and employers are massively dependent on benefits | Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK
Minister to introduce test for drug driving
A test which will allow gardaí to check for drug driving will be introduced as part of a new Road Traffic Bill, Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has said | Irish Times
Heroin linked to 3 deaths ‘not rogue batch’
Garda and medical sources said the finding underlined the everyday risk facing injecting heroin users, particularly when they take it with other drugs and when their health is very poor | Irish Needle Exchange Forum
‘We had no choice but to submit a minority report’
Two organisations associated with the drinks industry rejected assertions they intended to undermine the report of the Government-appointed expert group on alcohol. Mature Enjoyment of Alcohol in Society, an organisation funded by the industry, and the Alcohol Beverage Federation of Ireland, representing manufacturers and suppliers, wrote their own minority reports | Irish Examiner
Dutch 'weed pass' law driving cannabis trade underground
By driving the soft drugs trade underground, the Dutch town of Maastricht has triggered a crime wave | Transnational Institute, Netherlands
Nurse-led intervention deters substance abuse among homeless youth
A new study led by researchers from the UCLA School of Nursing has found that nursing intervention can significantly decrease substance abuse among homeless youth | UCLA, USA
Mexico says Zetas drug lord Heriberto Lazcano may be dead
Top Los Zetas drug cartel leader Heriberto Lazcano has apparently been killed in a shootout in northern Mexico, the country's navy says | BBC, UK
Increase in ecstasy among Australia’s recreational drug users
Ecstasy among Australia's regular drug users, in pubs, clubs and music festivals, appears to be making a comeback, according to research to be released today by the | National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Australia
Northern push to lift grog controls draws fire
The Northern Territory and Queensland governments have been warned not to lift alcohol restrictions in dry Aboriginal communities | ABC News, Australia
Supporting smoking cessation: a guide for health professionals 2011
This updated guide: Supporting smoking cessation: a guide for health professionals 2011, incorporates a number of significant new developments in both the science and practice of cessation support providing health professionals with a valuable resource to help patients keen to stop smoking | Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
More Afghan families turn to cannabis cultivation
High crop prices fuel increase in number of growers, adding to drug-control problems in world leader for opium production | Guardian, UK
Interview: Trade Can Cure Afghan Opium Addiction
Afghanistan's drug business poses a threat to the entire Central Asian region. But more regional trade, not just tighter borders, could help solve the problem. UN Office of Drug Control (UNODC) Executive Director Yury Fedotov explains why | Radio Free Europe