Weekly news - 28th May 2010

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Facing the future, DrugScope annual conference 2010

Preliminary agenda [DrugScope, UK]

Supervised injectable heroin or injectable methadone versus optimised oral methadone as treatment for chronic heroin addicts in England after persistent failure in orthodox treatment (RIOTT): a randomised trial [The Lancet, UK]

Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2009

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

The DDN training directory

The 2010 directory providing a comprehensive list of training providers [Drink and Drugs News, UK]

New FEAD contributor

Julia Buxton Ph.D from Bradford University Centre for International Cooperation and Security [FEAD, UK]

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]

Committee gives qualified support to alcohol bill to allow it to proceed to next stage

The Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee agrees that the scale of the country’s alcohol problem is such that it must be addressed, according to a report published today [Scottish Parliament, UK]

Health and Sport Committee Report

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

Strategies to reduce the harmful use of alcohol

Draft global strategy [WHO]

Video: UKESAD 2010 Highlights

UKESAD 2010 was an inspiration, our highlights capture the spirit of the conference with a selection of clips from the key presentations and interviews including White House drugs adviser Keith Humphreys, Chairman of Castle Craig Hospital Peter McCann and founder of Intuitive Recovery Peter Bentley [Inexcess TV, UK]

NHS Smoking Cessation Service Statistics (Scotland)

This report presents information on quit attempts made with the help of NHS smoking cessation services, and quit outcomes, during the 2009 calendar year [ScotPHO, UK]

Council calls on EU scientific experts to assess risks of mephedrone

Europe has responded to rising concern over the use of the synthetic drug mephedrone by formally requesting a scientific investigation into the health and social risks of the substance [EMCDDA]

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]

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

Specifications and collection manual [Australian Government]

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]

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]

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]