DS Daily - 15th October 2012 |
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A Fresh Approach to Drugs
The final report of the UK Drug Policy Commission. Download report | UKDPC
Britain's drug policies could be wasting billions
The UK spends £3bn each year fighting drugs. But we've little idea if much of it is achieving anything - Ruth Runciman | Guardian, UK
Decriminalise drug use, say experts after six-year study
Advisors say no serious rise in consumption is likely if possession of small amounts of controlled drugs is allowed | Guardian, UK
Case for drug decriminalisation rests on failure of 40-year-old law
UK drug policy commission says 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act was never designed to deal with current patterns of use | Guardian, UK
Druglink interview with Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive of Public Health England
If it isn’t already, the name Duncan Selbie is set to become very familiar to those of us working in the drug and alcohol sector. the chief executive of public Health england spoke to Harry Shapiro about his plans | Druglink
Drug systems change pilot programme evaluation report published
The aim was to test whether local drug and alcohol treatment partnerships could tailor services better, in response to local needs, if they were allowed more flexibility in how they used the range of funding streams available to them and were not constrained by central targets. Report download | Department of Health, UK
A randomised study comparing intranasal and intravenous routes for naloxone
This study demonstrates that, amongst advanced paramedictrainees, the IN route of medication administration is significantly faster, better accepted, and perceived to be safer than using an IV route of administration | Emergency Medicine International
September-October SMMGP Policy Update
Delivering quality care for drug and alcohol users: the roles and competencies of doctors - and other items | SMMGP, UK
Drug culture at UK universities - study findings
The survey, carried out by Student Beans, included 1,401 university students across the UK | Guardian, UK
Boscombe's 60 rehab centres revealed at conference
The total was revealed at a meeting held by Bournemouth Council, Dorset Police and the probation service to tackle the town's drug issues | BBC, UK
Legal high deaths prompt police crackdown
More than a dozen people have been hospitalised because of legal high Annihilation | Daily Record, UK
Drugs baron masterminded heroin and cocaine racket from his prison cell
A drugs baron will spend another ten years behind bars for masterminding another heroin and cocaine racket from his prison cell | Daily Mail, UK
Special night to celebrate achievements
More than 180 people turned out to the country's first-ever Recovery Ball, which took place at the Council House, Old Market Square | This is Nottingham, UK
Alcohol Treatment in Cheshire and Merseyside, 2010/11
This publication details the results of the tier 3 and 4 (structured) Alcohol National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) and the tier 2 (non structured) Alcohol Treatment Monitoring System in Cheshire and Merseyside during 2010/11 | Centre for Public Health, UK
Alcohol-related deaths soar in Manchester
While drink-related hospital admissions double North West average | Mancunian Matters, UK
Minimum pricing plans in Scotland shelved by ministers
Plans to introduce minimum pricing on alcohol in Scotland have been postponed indefinitely by ministers as a result of a growing legal challenge to the controversial move | The Scotsman, UK
120,000 troubled families could be legally banned from spending benefits on alcohol and tobacco
Troubled families living on benefits will be legally barred from spending welfare money on alcohol and tobacco, under plans being drawn up in Whitehall | Telegraph, UK
Hospitals get tough on smokers
A north-east hospital trust will today launch a campaign to persuade hard-core smokers to stub it out while in, or outside, NHS premise | Northern Echo, UK
Why regulating nicotine effectively is the only way to end smoking
Deborah Arnott (ASH) | FEAD, UK
Foreign national prisoners do not deserve blanket judgments
46% of foreign national women are inside for drug offences (compared to 21% of British nationals) | Guardian, UK
Narcomania by Max Daly and Steve Sampson
The War We Never Fought by Peter Hitchens – review | Observer, UK
Mood Mate
Mood Mate is an application developed as part of a PhD research project at the University of Reading to see whether monitoring your mood over 30 days helps people seek treatment | Moodmate, UK
Merseyside project to teach young gang members how to save lives taken up across the UK
A pioneering project set up in Merseyside which teaches gang members how to save their friends’ lives if they are stabbed or shot has been rolled out across the UK | Liverpool Echo, UK
An anti-poverty strategy for the UK
Through this programme of work, we will also challenge myths and stereotypes about people experiencing poverty, and encourage a debate about what the UK would be like if we could significantly reduce poverty | Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK
Community raises $500K to stop methadone clinic
After raising the final $100,000 over the last two days, businesses and residents in the area are now able to fund a mobile methadone treatment service and stop the controversial methadone clinic from moving into the house on Dutch Village Road | CBC News, Canada
The U.S. Drug Policy Landscape
Insights and Opportunities for Improving the View | RAND, USA
NIDA launches new tool for parents
As part of National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has launched Family Checkup, an online resource that equips parents with research-based skills to help keep their children drug-free | NIDA, USA
Brad Pitt blasts the U.S. war on drugs as an 'incredible failure'
Pitt believes the fact that drugs are so accessible is why the so-called drug war isn't working ... 'The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. ' | Daily Mail, UK
Speed and the city: meet the Adderall-addled adults of New York
Adderall is capitalism's wonder-pill. It dulls your personality levels and optimises your productivity levels | Guardian, UK
Marijuana Referendum Divides Both Sides
In Washington State, as a measure that would legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana heads toward a vote next month, the opposition forces have been divided, raising hopes by marijuana advocates of a breakthrough | New York Times, USA
Known abusers, but victims ignored
Torture and ill-treatment in Mexico | Amnesty International
Invitation to apply for funding to become a Partners in Recovery organisation
Funding is being provided to engage PIR organisations in each of the 61 Medicare Local geographic regions | Department of Health and Ageing, Australia
A new generation takes the acid test
Use of hallucinogens is on the rise, worrying experts | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Industry revolts as federal health agency proposes ban on discount booze
Cheap wine will be banned under a federal health agency's plan to make drinkers pay at least $8-$10 for a bottle of booze | The Australian
Iran wages its own war against drugs
“Iran is fighting with the illicit drug traffickers on behalf of all humanity, ” said Gen. Ali Moaiyedi, chief commander of the anti-narcotic police | LA Times, USA
Russia wrestles with a deadly crisis
A planned law to help reduce the huge number of smokers faces powerful opposition | The Age, Australia
Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival
In 2013, the Film Fest will be held in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius from 9-12 June as part of the IHRA conference