Weekly news - 22nd January 2010 |
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Commissioning for Recovery – the essential guide to commissioning recovery-oriented treatment
A new guide to enable local drug action teams help drug users achieve and sustain recovery from their addiction has beenlaunched by the [National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK]
Commissioning for Recovery
An essential guide for drug action teams in England, which summarises the best of current commissioning practice in the drug treatment field [National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK]
And here is your starter for 2010
The January/February issue of Druglink, the first for 2010 in this, DrugScope’s 10th anniversary year, focuses on the changing landscape of drugs in the UK [Druglink Blog, DrugScope, UK]
Druglink - January/February 2010 issue
In this issue we focus on 'new drugs'. In addition to our double feature on mephedrone, we also report from K-day – an event where ketamine users expressed concerns over the lack of treatment options available to them and we hear from a treatment service in Kent about their approach to dealing with so-called ‘legal highs’ [Druglink, DrugScope, UK]
Legally High
The dangers of ‘legal highs’ have been hitting the headlines over the past few months, and the issue has inevitably brought with it its share of myth and conjecture. You only have to think about the storm in the ACMD’s teacup at the end of last year to see why the experts are circling the issue warily on all sides [Editorial, DDN, UK]
Magazine Features - DDN
Features from this week's [DDN Magazine, UK]
Call for immediate public health plan to address anthrax contamination of heroin
The letter to to Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon from Sebastian Saville, Executive Director, Release and co – signatories [Release, UK]
Take-homenaloxone
Welcome to take-homenaloxone.com. This is a website run by independent academics and healthcare professionals aimed at raising the awareness and profile of the use of take-home naloxone as a mechanism for reducing drug-related death, and to provide a forum for discussing innovation, training and practice developments [Take-homenaloxone]
Epic three year FOI battle to release suppressed Home Office drug stratgey evaluation reaches its denoument
What follows is a time line of the process that Danny had to go through in order for Transform to access factual and statistical research material of the kind that democratic governments ought to make available as a matter of course [TDPF, UK]
Drugs Value for Money Review July 2007 Report
Drug Strategy working document - Not Government policy [Home Office, UK]
Crime in England and Wales: Quarterly Update to September 2009
These recorded crime statistics are heavily influenced by policing priorities, and may reflect changes in the policing of drug crime more than real changes in its incidence. Police Force Area tables [Home Office, UK]
Drug Intervention Programme's Millionth Test milestone
The Home Office’s Drugs Intervention Programme (DIP) recently conducted its one millionth drug test with the support of Concateno, Europe’s most experienced drug and alcohol testing company [Concateno, UK]
Wales Peer Mentor Service - Newport and Monmouthshire
CRI has been commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government to deliver a Peer Mentor Service in Newport and Monmouthshire, funded by the European Social Fund. The service will train peer mentors to provide support to people who are being treated in the community for drug and alcohol issues [CRI, UK]
A Process Evaluation of Celtic Against Drugs and Rangers Positive Choices
A report on the design and implementation of the Celtic Against Drugs and Rangers Positive Choices schemes and their suitability and value for money as vehicles for drugs education and prevention [Scottish Government, UK]
A Process Evaluation of Celtic Against Drugs and Rangers Positive Choices: Key findings
Key findings on the design and implementation of the Celtic Against Drugs and Rangers Positive Choices schemes and their suitability and value for money as vehicles for drugs education and prevention [Scottish Government, UK]
Safe. Sensible. Social.
Selling alcohol responsibly: government response to the consultation on the code of practice for alcohol retailers - Report - Overview [Home Office, UK]
Local solutions already exist in fight against irresponsible drinking
Moves to curb irresponsible drinking have led to a call for a 'revisit of existing solutions', particularly in preventing sales of alcohol to young people [NDS, UK]
Protecting Young People From Alcohol Related Harm
LBRO Case Study Evaluation – Apr 2009 [Local Better Regulation Office, UK]
SALSUS 2008
Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) 2008 National Report - national survey of 13 - 15 year olds [NHS Scotland, UK]
CAP Periodic Review on Drinking and Culture
It is hoped that this publication will become a reliable tool for researchers internationally, bolstering the common evidence base and laying the foundation for developing prevention and intervention approaches that would take into account cultural variations in drinking patterns and outcomes [International Center for Alcohol Policies]
Preventing alcohol related harm to health
Editorial [BMJ, UK]
Failure of self regulation of UK alcohol advertising
Analysis [BMJ, UK]
Government launches one-stop shop for data
A major new website has been launched to the public which gives anyone who wants to use it unprecedented and free access to government data in one place [Cabinet Office, UK]
Cost of Enforcement of Poland’s Drug Use Prevention Act
The Institute for Public Affairs, a think tank in Poland, released a report that estimates that a single article of the severe Drug Use Prevention Act of 2005 drains roughly 80 million PLN (£17.5 million) out of the public coffers each year [IHRA]
Introducing ONDCP Update
The newsletter of the Office of National Drug Control Policy will be published monthly by ONDCP's Office of Public Affairs and Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison, a new component dedicated to building partnerships with state, local and tribal government leaders, law enforcement officials, substance abuse professionals, and state and national organizations [ONDCP, USA]
Drug law resentencing
Saving tax dollars with minimal community risk [Legal Aid Society of New York, USA]