Weekly news - 3rd February 2012 |
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Response on diphenylprolinol (D2PM) and diphenylmethylpyrrolidine
A response to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs' further advice on D2PM and diphenylmethylpyrrolidine - Download | Home Office, UK
Briefing paper: Illicit Drugs and Public Health in 2012
This paper sets out some of the issues and challenges for the delivery of drug interventions in the new public health system | UKDPC
Opioid treatment gets Government go-ahead
Research at National Addiction Centre at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has played a central role in the Department of Health’s recent declaration that Injectable Opioid Treatment is a “clinically-effective second-line treatment” for people with chronic heroin addictions who have repeatedly failed to respond to standard treatmen | NAC, UK
Drug Decriminalization in the UK
Is there a disconnect between politicians and the public? | Open Society Foundations, USA
Tackling alcohol misuse: Should abstinence be our preferred approach?
A new report which argues that people with alcohol problems must be offered effective support and treatment to meet their individual needs, an ‘individual person-centred journey’ as the Government’s drug strategy would describe it | British Liver Trust
Model-based appraisal of alcohol minimum pricing and off-licensed trade discount bans in Scotland using the Sheffield alcohol policy model
Second update based on newly available data | University of Sheffield, UK
Bitesized Briefing on Localism
What does localism mean? - What are the reforms? - Public Health England - Health and Wellbeing Boards - Community Budgets - How do the reforms affect drug and alcohol services? | DrugScope, UK
Practical Mental Health Commissioning
This is the first in a planned series of documents intended to help those involved in commissioning and providing mental health and social care services to make sense of and build on the new opportunities emerging within this new landscape - Download | National Mental Health Development Unit, UK
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner’s Guide
NIAAA developed the Guide and Pocket Guide in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics, a team of underage drinking researchers and clinical specialists, and practicing health care professionals - Download | NIAAA, USA