Weekly news - 18th May 2012 |
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Annual review of the drug strategy 2010
The first annual review of the Drug Strategy 2010 provides a progress update on implementation of the Drug Strategy and includes an action plan for tackling the threat from new psychoactive substances - Download | Home Office, UK
Letter from the Home Secretary to Professor Les Iversen
Response from the Home Secretary to the ACMD’s Novel Psychoactive Substances report | Home Office, UK
Building recovery in communities
A summary of responses to the consultation | NTA, UK
Expansion of project to support people with substance misuse issues
A project to support people with substance misuse issues to become economically independent has been given a boost by the Welsh Government
Substance misuse services in prisons, immigration and removal centres
The Department, together with the Ministry of Justice and the Youth Justice Board, has issued a dear colleague letter that sets out policy for provison of services related to substance misuse in prisons, immigration and removal centres and the children and young people’s secure estate in England. Responsibility for funding of these services transferred to the Department during 2012 | Department of Health, UK
Department of Health corporate plan 2012
The Department's business priorities for 2012-13. Smoking, drug misuse and harmful alcohol consumption | Department of Health, UK
Keeping alcohol advertising to the Code
Spring 2012 report from the Youth Alcohol Advertising Council | Alcohol Concern, UK
Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program
2011 Annual Report | ONDCP, USA
Illicit Drug Data Report 2010-11
It provides a statistical overview of illicit drug arrests and seizures as well as profiling the current situation, national impact and the emerging trends and threats of illicit drugs in Australia - full report | Australian Crime Commission
Drug Use in New Zealand
Key results of the 2007/08 New Zealand Alcohol and Drug Use Survey | Ministry of Health, New Zealand