Weekly news - 8th April 2011 |
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FundingWatch: Drug and alcohol treatment and supporting recovery
DrugScope is monitoring the impact of changes in commissioning, funding and spending cuts affecting the drug and alcohol sector and other services important for supporting recovery. If your service is not affected, we want to hear from you if cuts elsewhere are impacting on your work and/or service users. Please complete our online survey – all information will be confidential | DrugScope, UK
Health Lives, Healthy People - DrugScope response
The public health service’s responsibilities for drug and alcohol treatment will have a vital role to play in delivering the step-change in the quality and effectiveness of drug service delivery set out in the 2010 Drug Strategy, with a greater emphasis on recovery and social reintegration…However, the removal of the specific ‘ring fence’ from the pooled drug treatment budget…creates a risk of disinvestment | DrugScope, UK
Models of care and building recoveries in communities
A bite sized briefing from | DrugScope, UK
Letter from Anne Milton MP in response to Drug Treatment Consensus Statement
I whole-heartedly agree with all the statements in the document…The consensus statement has enormous potential value in setting out the expectations of local support for recovery [Anne Milton MP. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health, UK]
Regulator calls for evidence on methadone preparation
The General Pharmaceutical Council; (GPhC) is calling on patients, the public, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals for evidence supporting their experiences and views on the extemporaneous preparation of methadone - PDF Respond to the questions online | GPhC, UK
The first Substance Misuse Skills Consortium Conference
‘An inspirational recovery-orientated drug and alcohol workforce: how to deliver the Drug Strategy commitments’, the Substance Misuse Skills Consortium’s first national conference, will take place in London on Monday 6 June 2011 | Skills Consortium, UK
Funding for 2011/12 substance misuse services in prisons
Joint letter from Department of Health, National Offender Management Service and National Treatment Agency confirming funding allocations for substance misuse services in adult prisons in England for 2011/12. The Department of Health became responsible for these services in April 2011 | Department of Health, UK
Funding for 2011/12 substance misuse specialist interventions and treatment in the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate
The 2010 Spending Review transferred responsibility for substance misuse services in adult prisons in England to the Department of Health from April 2011. This letter confirms new responsibilities and funding allocations for 2011/12 | Department of Health, UK
Drugs Seizures Scotland
The total number of drug seizures in Scotland increased slightly in 2005/06 but then decreased in 2006/07 [Scottish Government, UK]
Reducing underage alcohol harm in Accident and Emergency settings
The new briefing paper outlines simple steps that A&E departments can take to identify ‘at risk’ young drinkers in order to provide them with access to appropriate early interventions at times when they are more receptive to advice - press release | Alcohol Concern, UK
Alcohol Harm Reduction - Best Practice Guidance
This document records the methodology and findings of the Alocohol Harm Reduction National Support Team. It provides collated and aggregated information about what the team have recommended in visited areas, with the intention to provide readers with helpful information to draw upon in their current work | DoH, Alcohol Harm Reduction, National Support Team, UK
DrugScope comment and opinion
A new blog from | DrugScope, UK
Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental and Substance Use Disorders
What's Working, What's Needed? | SAMHSA, USA
Addicted to Courts
How a Growing Dependence on Drug Courts Impacts People and Communities [Justice Policy Institute, USA]
Opioid substitution therapy in resource-poor settings
One of the most consistent findings in both high-income and resource-poor settings is that the more time injecting drug users spend on opioid substitution therapy, the better the outcomes and the less they are likely to engage in high risk behaviours | World Health Organization
HIV and injecting drug use: a global call for action
Their needs have been neglected, and their rights have been ignored, and, in many cases, horribly violated as governments have chosen to pursue punitive, disproportionate drug laws instead of evidence-based health strategies to address drug-related harm | The Lancet, UK