Weekly news - 23rd April 2010 |
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Harm reduction: evidence, impacts and challenges
The EMCDDA’s 10th scientific monograph, entitled Harm reduction: evidence, impacts and challenges provides a comprehensive overview of the harm reduction field. 3.9MB PDF [EMCDDA]
Guidelines for collecting data on retail drug prices in Europe: issues and challenges
The Manual raises awareness on specific issues related to collecting data on retail drug prices and offers practical suggestions PDF [EMCDDA]
CUT - What else are people eating, snorting and injecting when they take illegal drugs?
A Guide to the Adulterants, Bulking agents and other Contaminants found in illicit drugs [Centre for Public Health, UK]
Reducing drug and alcohol harms to communities and families: updated guidance on developing local practice
This guidance takes the local community as the starting point of its approach to dealing with drug and alcohol problems. Its focus is not only on meeting national priorities, but about making a difference at a local level [Home Office, UK]
Time to rethink our drug control laws
The UK Drug Policy Commission and think-tank Demos are joining forces to examine how drug control in the UK can be handled in different ways [UKDPC]
Merseyside DIP Demographics Report 08/09
This report outlines the key demographic trends for clients assessed and transferred into DIP over the three year period between 06/07 & 08/09 [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
Powder Cocaine & Problematic Drug Users
A comparative study of the characteristics of DIP clients in Merseyside [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
Professor John Strang - videos
Professor John Strang on the history of drug treatment and the growth of drug clinics; Sir Rolleston; The Maudsely; and the arrival of HIV in the 1970's [FEAD, UK]
Crime in England and Wales
Quarterly Update to December 2009 [Home Office, UK]
ACPO guidance on policing new psychoactive substances
[Association of Chief Police Officer of England, Wales & Northern Ireland]
Model-Based Appraisal of Alcohol Minimum Pricing
Model-Based Appraisal of Alcohol Minimum Pricing and Off-Licensed Trade Discount Bans in Scotland Using The Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model (V 2):- An Update Based on Newly Available Data [Scottish Government, UK]
EU citizens’ attitudes towards alcohol
In this report, findings are presented from an EU-wide Eurobarometer poll carried out in autumn 2009 and, where appropriate, compared with a similar poll carried out in the autumn of 2006,5 around the time of the adoption of the EU alcohol strategy [European Commission]
Medical Marijuana and the Law
The U.S. legal landscape surrounding "medical marijuana" is complex and rapidly changing [New England Journal of Medicine, USA]
Report of the 53rd Commission on Narcotic Drug
Report on the fifty-third session (2 December 2009 and 8-12 March 2010) [United Nations]