DS Daily - 23rd October 2012 |
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Anna Soubry MP, Public Health Minister, is to address DrugScope conference
A question of balance: delivering an inclusive treatment and recovery system. DrugScope conference 2012
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales Annual Report 2011–12
Multiple references to drugs and alcohol | Justice, UK
Meow meow: Mephedrone twice as common in Wales as 2011
The report, released to BBC Wales from organised crime taskforce Operation Tarian, shows the number of offences involving mephedrone in Wales has risen significantly since last year | BBC, UK
Swansea heroin fight 'may have masked meow meow boom'
The emergence of mephedrone on Swansea streets may have been overlooked while drug workers tackled the city's heroin problem, it is claimed | BBC, UK
From our pilots – Bracknell Forest
Although there have been some teething problems the Bracknell Forest Payment by Results pilot is still progressing well | Department of Health, UK
Adverse ophthalmic reaction in poppers users
Case series of ‘poppers maculopathy’ | Eye journal
Human rights: The hidden cost of the war on drugs
The London School of Economics (LSE) produced a report finding the UN-governed international drug control system has failed and human rights abuses are facilitated in pursuit of failed policies | Politics, UK
UK drug legalisation
The grimmer lessons from around the world | Telegraph, UK
New £6m programme for drug and alcohol problems
NHS Gloucestershire has announced the preferred bidders to take on multi-million pound contracts to support addicts | This is Gloucestershire, UK
Crime and Justice Speech
Transcript of the Prime Minister's speech to the Centre for Social Justice | Number 10, UK
‘The Tipping Point’ Report
A survey of over 4,500 disabled people, a poll of more than 350 independent welfare advisors, and more than 50 in-depth interviews with disabled people with varying conditions and impairments | The Hardest Hit, UK
Sons’ Unexpected Long Term Scarring Due to Fathers’ Unemployment
This study is the first to capture long run costs of parental unemployment on realized and expected life satisfaction of sons of fathers experiencing unemployment | Melbourne Institute, Australia
Drug ‘shooting galleries’ to be tested by France
France’s health minister, Marisol Touraine (pictured), has said trial centres where drug addicts can safely inject their own drugs could open before the end of the year in a handful of French cities | France 24
What's all the snus about?
Swedish MEP dealing snuff in Brussels | Independent, UK
France delays breathalyser fine
Plans to introduce on-the-spot fines for motorists not carrying a breathalyser in France have been delayed until next spring – but the testing kit remains a legal requirement | Telegraph, UK
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside gets new lease on life
Signs of hope and renewal in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood | Macleans, Canada
U.S. study debunks link between crime, methadone clinics
Don’t fear the methadone clinic — worry more about your neighbourhood convenience store. That’s the suggestion from a recent U.S. study, believed to be the first of its kind, that looked for links between methadone treatment centres and crime in the neighbourhoods in which they’re located | London Free Press, Canada
Mobile methadone clinic to cut waitlist in half
A Winnebago that will be transformed into a mobile methadone clinic has arrived in Halifax | CBC News, Canada
Substance abuse diagnoses increasing in U.S.
Possibly driven by a surge in painkiller abuse, the number of drug and alcohol problems diagnosed by U.S. doctors increased by 70 percent between 2001 and 2009, according to new research | Reuters
Monster Energy Drink Cited in Deaths
Five people may have died over the past three years after drinking Monster Energy, a popular energy drink that is high in caffeine, according to incident reports recently released by the Food and Drug Administration | New York Times, USA
Questions raised over wider naltrexone use
There is a new push on to increase the use of naltrexone implants, drugs used to treat opiate addiction, but critics say the technology is costly and has been linked to several deaths | ABC News, Australia
Police force passes the drug test
Fewer than 1 per cent of drug and alcohol tests of Victorian police have come up positive, with cannabis the most-detected drug | The Age, Australia
MPs Get Down To Business On Alcohol
MPs began crawling through the committee stage of the Alcohol Reform Bill on Tuesday afternoon getting to debate on part two of the bill by the time of the dinner adjournment | Scoop, New Zealand
Iran hangs ten drug smugglers
Iran hanged 10 people convicted of drug trafficking on Monday, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported, part of what rights group Amnesty International called a "state killing spree" | Reuters
New report on corporal punishment
Thousands caned, whipped, lashed or flogged each year for drug and alcohol offences. Download | Harm Reduction International