DS Daily - 30th October 2012 |
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One week to go until the DrugScope conference – 6th November
‘A question of balance: delivering an inclusive treatment and recovery system’. Keynote speaker: Anna Soubry MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health. Conference brochure and booking form | DrugScope, UK
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Extend methadone and needle exchange but more needed to fight hepatitis C
Messages of this simulation model for the UK and other countries are the resilience of hepatitis C in the face of opiate substitute and needle exchange services, that still these have helped and should be expanded, but also that further measures are required to substantially curtail the virus | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Harm reduction value of needle exchange and methadone maintenance
This bulletin collating the latest additions to the Effectiveness Bank features four studies from Britain, Australia and Canada which remind recovery-focused Britain of the harm reduction value of needle exchange and methadone maintenance services | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Putting Full Recovery First - Is There Another Way?
Keynote speech by Sara McGrail on the government's recent "Putting Full Recovery First" document | You Tube
Hepatitis Scotland Webinar - 30th of October at 16:30
Hepatitis Scotland will be broadcasting their latest live web education seminar on Tuesday the 30th of October at 16:30 and will be discussing the Provision of Injecting equipment in Scotland. Most recent e-bulletin also dealing with injecting equipment | Hepatitis Scotland
Serious Case Review Child F
Child F had ingested methadone - Recommendations | Southampton Safeguarding Children Board, UK
New learning from serious case reviews
A two year report for 2009-2011 | Department for Education, UK
Fatally flawed
Has the state learned lessons from the deaths of children and young people in prison? Download | Prison Reform Trust, UK
Intergenerational transmission of worklessness
Evidence from the Millennium Cohort and the Longitudinal Study of Young People In England | Department for Education, UK
Let's raise a toast to alcohol
A Channel 4 programme worries about alcohol, but most of the arguments against it are spurious. As a drinker, I've paid in more than I've taken out | Guardian, UK
The continent generation
Why young Britons have turned responsible | The Economist
Less dance
Nightclubs try to turn around their ebbing fortunes | The Economist
AMPHORA Manifesto: a call to reduce the EU’s drinking problem
The final conference of the AMPHORA research project was held with the Swedish Medical Society in Stockholm. The AMPHORA Manifesto on Alcohol Policy, in which 71 scientists from 33 organizations from 14 European countries provide a base of understanding of alcohol policy and what it entails, encourage rethinking the dynamics of policymaking and the necessary actions across different levels and sectors of society | EUCAM
N.B. methadone clinic boasts highest retention rate
The numbers show 95 per cent of methadone patients at the Saint John’s Uptown Clinic, based out of St. Joseph’s Community Health Centre, stayed in the program after one year, nearly double the rate of programs in other parts of the country | CBC News, Canada
Beshear sees successes in fight against drug abuse
Kentucky has made inroads in combating drug abuse, and the momentum has gained steam since a new law took on the state's status as a "prescription playground," Gov. Steve Beshear said Monday night | SF Gate, USA
Bolivia breaks the mold in 'war on drugs'
Instead of ruining farmers' livelihoods by eradicating their coca plots, Bolivia is applying "social control." | DW, Germany
Prescription opioids: a painful problem
Professor Louisa Degenhardt, from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, says we must avoid the temptation of thinking that one single intervention will offer a solution | ABC News, Australia
Greens drive needle exchange: AMA
The Greens should use their kingmaker status in the Legislative Assembly to lobby for a needle and syringe exchange in Canberra's prison, according to the Australian Medical Association | Canberra Times, Australia
Counting the benefits of alcohol tax reform
Alcohol taxation reform will generate substantial net benefits for the whole Australian community with an overwhelming majority of adults being better off according to the first systematic benefit cost analysis of alcohol taxation reform. Report - Bingeing, collateral damage and the benefits and costs of taxing alcohol rationally | FARE, Australia
Workplace alcohol and other drug testing
Key considerations regarding alcohol and other drug (AOD) testing in the workplace | VAADA, Australia
Social Media and the AOD sector
This discussion paper will outline the key issues for AOD treatment agencies intending on developing internal policies relating to the use of social media. It will discuss a number of considerations for using social media in the AOD sector, both for work related purposes as well as personal use for both during and after work hours | VAADA, Australia