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‘Strengthening the NHS Constitution’ - DrugScope response to Department of Health consultation (PDF)
‘The NHS Constitution should have a significant role in the substance misuse sector in a period of change. But awareness of the Constitution is low and there is a lack of clarity about its application to drug and alcohol services. It is important that the significance of the NHS Constitution outside of ‘mainstream’ NHS health care provision is not neglected, including for our sector…’ A key issue is what mechanisms will help to protect and support effective commissioning, clinical governance, accountability, service user choice and rights, staff development, and so on, following the devolution to local areas…’ | DrugScope, UK
The Recovery Festival 2013 – 12 and 13th March
The main objective of the Recovery Festival is to educate the business community about the benefits of employing people in recovery. We are keen to hear from businesses and employers who are working with services and people in recovery or who have successful stories to tell in relation to staff in recovery. For more information about the Festival – e.g., latest speakers and sponsorship and exhibition opportunities visit the website | Recovery Partnership, UK
New FRANK adverts mark tenth anniversary
A new advertising campaign to remind young people to talk to FRANK for factual and trustworthy drugs advice was launched by the Home Office yesterday | Home Office, UK
Alcohol Concern Consultation Response (PDF)
Alcohol Concern has submitted its response to the governments alcohol strategy | Alcohol Concern, UK
AHA says drinks industry is now using tactics of Big Tobacco against minimum unit pricing
The Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA) UK brings together organisations whose mission is to reduce the damage caused to health by alcohol misuse. Members include medical bodies, charities and alcohol health campaigners | AHA, UK
Minimum unit pricing website
New website created by Public Health professionals working to tackle alcohol harm and create healthier communities | minimumpricing.info, UK
Alcoholism vaccine will give drinkers an immediate hangover if they drink even a small amount of booze
A new vaccine will give anyone who drinks even a small amount of alcohol an immediate and very heavy hangover | Mail Online, UK
Rebuilding Shattered Lives Expert Group - Video
Dame Clare Tickell, Chief Executive of Action for Children, is the Rebuilding Shattered Lives lead member on Children and Families. Here she talks about why she believes the St Mungo's Rebuilding Shattered Lives campaign is important and what she hopes it will achieve | St Mungo's, UK
Latest additions to the Effectiveness Bank
An international mixture from brief interventions in England to in Iran the heavy end of treatment using anaesthesia to rapidly withdraw opiate addicts. Back to the UK for a call for smoking equipment to supplement provision of injecting equipment, and to Australia and Germany for the results of raising taxes on alcopops | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Death penalty Briton Lindsay Sandiford requests appeal
A British grandmother sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into Bali has notified Indonesian officials she intends to appeal against the ruling | BBC, UK
Briton Julian Ponder facing Bali court drugs verdict
An Indonesian court is due to deliver its verdict in the case of a British man accused of drug offences | BBC, UK
When is a randomised controlled trial appropriate for your charity?
It is crucial to compare the outcomes of people who receive a social policy intervention with those who do not? | Guardian, UK
How CCGs can commission to support those in poor housing
The statutory duty of CCGs to consider integration of health related services may impact the provision of housing | Guardian, UK
Comment: We’ve a duty to find other ways of dealing with drug misuse
Neil McKeganey’s key concern with legalisation and regulation of drugs appears to be his assumption that use and abuse would rise. This is a legitimate concern, but itself assumes punitive prohibitions are an effective deterrent – the evidence for which is strikingly weak | Scotsman, UK
Landmark case as drink driver found guilty
A 29-year-old man has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of a couple in a landmark trial where hospital records were allowed as evidence to prove his blood alcohol level at the time of the crash | Irish Independent, Ireland
Replacement therapies increase quitting rate
Not smoking is the most important thing one can do to affect one’s cancer risk. In any given week, more than 100 people in Ireland will die of tobacco-related diseases and it is estimated that last year, Ireland spent between €1 billion and €2 billion on treating tobacco-related disease | Irish Medical Times, Ireland
Dave Purchase Dies at 73; Led Early Needle Exchange
Dave Purchase, a bearded biker who 24 years ago began handing out sterile syringes to prevent AIDS among drug addicts on the streets of Tacoma, Wash., and went on to become a national leader of the needle-exchange movement, died on Jan. 21 in Tacoma | NY Times, USA
5 crazy facts about drugs (you think you know but have no idea...)
Today marks the start of National Drug Facts Week. To kick the week off, here are a few interesting facts about drug use in the U.S., provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse | NIDA, USA
Do TV Liquor Ads Drive Kids to Drink?
Discussing advertising's persuasiveness may help blunt its effects, experts say | HealthdayNews, USA
Will States Lead the Way to Legalizing Marijuana Nationwide?
When citizens of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana in November they created a conflict, because pot remains illegal under federal law and anyone who lights up is committing a federal crime and could theoretically still be arrested for it | Time, USA
Call for Nominations for National Drug and Alcohol Awards
Nominations have opened for the 2013 National Drug and Alcohol Awards (NDAA) which will be presented at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday night, 20 June 2013 | National Drug and Alcohol Awards, Australia
NSW is facing a drunken teen crisis
Young people are binge drinking at unprecedented levels, with the number admitted to hospital for alcohol-related problems more than doubling in a decade | Dailt telegraph, Australia