Reports December 2012

Harm reduction overviews

Harm reduction overviews now published for 30 countries — the 27 EU Member States, Norway as EMCDDA member, and Turkey and Croatia as Candidate Countries | EMCDDA, Portugal

Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy. 2nd Annual Report

The current report (PDF) is the second annual report and provides an update of Scotland’s alcohol strategy, the evaluation plan and the analyses of price, consumption, affordability and alcohol-related harms detailed in the baseline report | NHS Health Scotland

Fourth Annual Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service Report
2011 - 2012 (PDF)

Includes data on children presenting with substance misuse issues | Health Service Executive, Ireland

HSE National Liasion Pharmacist – Advice on the use on injecting tanning agents (PDF)

Due to the recent publicity and warnings about the dangers of injecting melanotan the HSE has released the following information | INEF, Ireland

State Estimates of Underage Alcohol Use and Self-Purchase of Alcohol: 2008 to 2010

This issue of The NSDUH Report presents State estimates of past month alcohol use among persons aged 12 to 20 and State estimates of self-purchase of alcohol among past month drinkers | SAMSHA, USA

First-of-its-kind report finds that street forms of “synthetic marijuana” products linked to thousands of hospital emergency departments visits each year

Street forms of synthetic cannabinoids – so-called “synthetic marijuana” – were linked to 11,406 of the 4.9 million drug-related emergency department (ED) visits in 2010, according to a new report (PDF) | SAMSHA, USA

Drug policy and women: Addressing the negative consequences of harmful drug control

This briefing aims to highlight the effects of drug policy on women as producers, suppliers and consumers of drugs in order to inform and guide policy makers on practices that should be avoided | IDPC, UK

Drugs: Breaking the cycle

The Home Affairs Committee is today publishing its first report on drugs (PDF) in a decade. After a wide-ranging and in-depth inquiry lasting a year and examining all areas of UK drug policy, the Committee has called for a Royal Commission on the issue | Home Affairs Committee, UK

Feeling the Effects

Our latest report (PDF) finds that parents' drinking has a big influence on their child's drinking habits | Demos, UK

Methamphetamine use on the rise in East and South-East Asia

Methamphetamine remains the top illicit drug threat in East and South-East Asia, according to a new UNODC report (PDF), the 2012 Patterns and Trends of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants and Other Drugs, Asia and the Pacific.

National drug-related public expenditure

This is the first set of national profiles that the EMCDDA has produced on drug-related public expenditure | EMCDDA, Portugal

New NICE public health guidance aims to ensure more people at increased risk of hepatitis B and C infection are tested

Out of a total of 12,642 hepatitis C infections diagnosed in the UK in 2011, around nine in ten of these infections were acquired through injecting drugs | NICE, UK

Mentor’s toolkit for reviewing schools drug and alcohol policy

This resource aims to help schools with the process of reviewing their drug and alcohol policy, with practical advice on consulting with teachers, pupils, parents and others in the community | Mentor, UK

Are 'cultures of worklessness' passed down the generations?

A new JRF study investigates the concept of 'intergenerational cultures of worklessness' | JRF, UK

Rising to the Challenge: The Mental Health and Addiction Service Development Plan 2012–2017

The plan provides a strong vision to guide the mental health and addiction sector, as well as clear direction to planners, funders and providers of mental health and addiction services on Government priority areas for service development over the next five years | Ministry of Health, New Zealand

High blood pressure, smoking and alcohol are biggest health risks

IHME global study of health risks finds that high blood pressure caused 9.4m early deaths, while smoking was next biggest | Guardian, UK

A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Policies in Practice Across the Globe

This report looks at over 20 countries that have adopted some form of decriminalisation of drug possession, including some States that have only decriminalised cannabis possession | Release, UK

Driving Under the Influence of Drugs, Alcohol and Medicines in Europe — findings from the DRUID project

This Thematic paper presents the key findings of the European Union’s research project on Driving Under the Influence of Drugs, Alcohol and Medicines, known as the DRUID project | EMCDDA, Portugal

Making Research Work: How Blenheim Hosted a Successful Contingency Management Research Project

The report gives a real insight into how to run a contingency management intervention rewarding abstinence and also documents how to approach integrating high quality research into clinical treatment | Blenheim Project, UK

Scottish Drug Misuse Database (SDMD) Report on People in Treatment 2011/12

This report presents data on individuals entering drug treatment services in Scotland during 2011/12 and, using person level ‘follow-up’ data, explores their treatment outcomes three months after initial assessment | ISD, Scotland

National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times Report (PDF)

This publication presents data from the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times database (DATWT). It includes details on the number of people waiting, the time waited to start drug or alcohol treatment, and information on specific interventions being accessed | ISD, Scotland

Survey of Teen Drug Use Released - video

Video of the NIDA press conference for the teen survey | NIDA, USA