Reports May 2010

Hemispheric Drug Strategy

Adopted at its forty-seventh regular session [Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission]

Detention as Treatment

Detention of Methamphetamine Users in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand PDF [Open Society Institute, USA]

State of the Nation report

Poverty, worklessness and welfare dependency in the UK [Department for Work and Pensions, UK]

Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set 2010-11

Specifications and collection manual [Australian Government]

IDPC Report - Response to the INCB Annual Report

Although at points perhaps more conciliatory in tone than in previous years, the document reveals the Board as a body that maintains a very narrow and selective interpretation of the drug control conventions PDF [IDPC]

World Bank Report

Innocent bystanders: developing countries and the war on drugs PDF [IDPC]

Health and Sport Committee Report

Stage 1 Report on the Alcohol etc. (Scotland) Bill [Scottish Parliament, UK]

Europol–EMCDDA joint report on mephedrone

In January 2010, Europol and the EMCDDA examined the available information on a new psychoactive substance, mephedrone, through a joint assessment [Europol–EMCDDA]

Statistics on Alcohol, England 2010

This statistical report presents a range of information on alcohol use and misuse which are drawn together from a variety of published sources and includes additional analysis undertaken by the NHS Information Centre for health and social care [NHS Information Centre, UK]

Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2009

Public Attitudes to Drugs and Drug Use in Scotland [Scottish Government, UK]

National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistical Annual Data collection: 2009

Provides information on key questions relating to the number of clients receiving pharmacotherapy treatment, the type of treatment they receive, who prescribes the treatment, where the treatment is received (dosed) and how pharmacotherapy fits more generally with treatment in Australia [Australian Institute of Health and Welfare]

Legislative and Policy Barriers to Needle & Syringe Programs and Injecting Equipment Access for People Who Inject Drugs

AIVL has developed this position paper with a view to providing a national overview of the legislative and policy barriers which currently restrict access to Needle & Syringe Programs (NSPs) and new injecting equipment for PWIDs [Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League]

Strategies to reduce the harmful use of alcohol

Draft global strategy [WHO]

Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Assertive Outreach Service for Street Drinkers in Liverpool

Reported here is the independent evaluation of the assertive outreach service provided by The Basement [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]

Alcohol and Drugs - a Question of Architecture

A systems mapping approach to how Scotland can reduce the damage to its population through alcohol and drugs by half by 2025 [Scotland's Futures Forum]

Making Harm Reduction Work for Women: The Ukrainian Experience

Ukraine‘s adult HIV prevalence is the highest of any country in Europe or Central Asia. According to the United Nations Development Programme, women now account for 48 percent of all HIV cases among adults in the country. Regional analysis suggests that this increase is largely attributable, either directly or indirectly, to injection drug use [Open Society Institute]

14th RCGP Conference Presentations Now Available

The highly successful 15th National RCGP Conference ("Working with Drug & Alcohol Users in Primary Care - Integrating Practice and Policy: Everyone's Business") was held in Glasgow on 22-23 April 2010. Downloads here [SMMGP, UK]

IHRA launches 'The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2010' report

The report is the first detailed country by country overview of the death penalty for drugs, monitoring both national legislation and state practice of enforcement [IHRA]

Substance Abuse in Canada: Concurrent Disorders

This report examines the latest evidence on the complex interconnection between addiction and mental illness [CCSA, Canada]

The Role of Alcohol and Other Drugs in Road Deaths and Serious Injuries

This report outlines the impact of drug use on road deaths and injuries and outlines a number of strategies that are currently being implemented to minimise and reduce the number of drivers who consume drugs [DrugInfo Clearinghouse, Australia]

Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) 1998 - 2008

[SAMHSA, USA]

2010 National Drug Control Strategy

It provides a collaborative and balanced approach that emphasizes community-based prevention, integration of evidence-based treatment into the healthcare system, innovations in the criminal justice system, and international partnerships to disrupt drug trafficking organizations. Read the full strategy [ONDCP, USA]

Evaluation and review of Tier 4 Alcohol Services in Cumbria and Lancashire

The review determined alcohol service provision in the areas within Cumbria and Lancashire using local and national evidence, including the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]

Review of the Glasgow and Fife Drug Courts: Report

Review of the Drug Courts in Glasgow and Fife Sheriff Courts conducted by the Community Justice Services Division of the [Scottish Government]

Attitudes towards alcohol: segmentation series report 1

This report, published by NWPHO, is part of a series of four reports utilising segmentation tools to discuss attitudes towards alcohol. Together the reports aim to synthesise the different data sources that identify at-risk groups as well as to provide an insight into related motivations and attitudes. This report concentrates on attitudes and motivations in relation to alcohol, highlighting which groups and types of groups are most likely to have specific attitudes and/or motivations [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]

Alcohol consumption: segmentation series report 2

This report concentrates on consumption, highlighting which groups and types of groups are most likely to drink in certain patterns [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]

Alcohol-attributable hospital admissions: segmentation series report 3

This report concentrates on hospital admission relating to alcohol in order to highlight which groups and types of populations are most at risk [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]

Alcohol pen portraits: segmentation series report 4

This report, the final in the series, is a summary document, bringing together the intelligence gathered to provide an in-depth understanding of the groups. The report provides suggestions for the nest steps in developing a truly insightful understanding of the groups through qualitative research [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]