Weekly news - 30th July 2010

National Treatment Agency to join Public Health Service

Treatment for addiction to drugs will form a core part of the new Public Health Service, the Government announced yesterday, as the Department of Health publishes plans to move the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse into the new body by April 2012 [NTA, UK]

Review of arm’s length bodies to cut bureaucracy

The review has assessed whether the work of each of the Department of Health’s 18 Arm’s Length Bodies’ remains essential nationally - including: Alcohol Education and Research Council and National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse [Department of Health, UK]

Liberating the NHS: Report of the arms-length bodies review

PDF Download of the report [Department of Health, UK]

Drugs & diversity: the impact of drugs on different minority groups

These wide-ranging reports describe what is known about treatment and prevention within diverse communities, including LGBT groups, disabled people and BME communities [UKDPC]

Alcohol consultation launched

Proposals have now been unveiled for new measures that would crack down on 'problem premises' and give more powers to local communities to influence licensing decisions - Consultation here [Home Office, UK]

Crime in England and Wales

Findings from the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime [Home Office, UK]

Drug Misuse Declared

Findings from the 2009/10 British Crime Survey England. Accompanying tables and reports [Home Office, UK]

DrugScope responds to new official data on drug use trends

DrugScope has responded to the publication of two sets of official statistics detailing the prevalence of drug use among adults and young people: Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2009 and Drug Misuse Declared: findings from the 2009/10 British Crime Survey [DrugScope, UK]

Moving beyond the ASBO

In a speech the Home Secretary called for changes in how anti-social behaviour is tackled, including more local control and more freedom for police to decide how to deal with each case [Home Office, UK]

Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) Statistics England and Wales 2008

The number of ASBOs issued (in the period 1 April 1999 to 31 December
2008) [Home Office, UK]

London DIP Review 2010

The Executive Summary of the Final Report for the London Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) Review [Green and Green Solutions Limited, UK]

Understanding college students’ alcoholrelated social norms in Sefton

Drink It’s Not What You Think [Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]

Drug and Alcohol Strategy Annual Report 2009-10

This report is a snapshot of all the work in progress to ensure that we continue to be an Island where families, individuals and communities feel safe, protected and secure [Department of Home Affairs, Isle of Man Government]

Fighting Drug Trafficking With a Substance-Oriented Approach

This paper discusses the “substance-oriented approach” Dutch authorities implemented to to scare off potential small-scale cocaine smugglers. The focus was on the drugs, rather than the couriers, and on incapacitating the smuggling route, rather than deterrence by incarceration - Report PDF [Transnational Institute, Netherlands]