Weekly news - 25th February 2011 |
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Specialist Drug and Alcohol Services for Young People – A Cost-Benefit Analysis
This summary of the report looks at the costs and benefits associated with young people’s drug and alcohol treatment [Frontier Economics, Department of Education, UK]
Cost benefit analysis
Full report [Frontier Economics, Department of Education, UK]
Payment by Results update: 16 local areas selected as potential pilot sites
Sixteen local areas in England have been short-listed as potential pilot sites for exploring the introduction of payment by results for drugs recovery [NTA, UK]
FRANK drugs advisory service
The total annual budget for FRANK across all three government departments for the 2009/10 financial year was £5.07 million [Home Office, UK]
Wales Children in Need Census, 2010
Parental substance or alcohol misuse and domestic abuse were the most frequently recorded parenting capacity factors [Welsh Assembly Government, UK]
Guidance for the use of substitute prescribing in the treatment of opioid dependence in primary care
1st Edition from [RCGP Substance Misuse Unit (SMU), RCGP Sex, Drugs and HIV Group (SDHIVG), Substance Misuse Management in General Practice (SMMGP), The Alliance]
Shaping recovery
Key events for the residential rehabilitation sector [NTA]
Mainstreaming Recovery: Building a United Drug Treatment Field
Any drug treatment strategy and the system it describes, has to offer a range of concrete evident benefits - Ian Wardle [Lifeline, UK]
Supporting People – Know the facts
Revolving Doors, in collaboration with a group of 13 organisations covering health, social care, housing, homelessness, substance misuse and criminal justice, helped produce a briefing document presenting the key facts about Supporting People [Revolving Doors, UK]
NTA Board appointments
The NTA is pleased to announce the following reappointments of members of its Board, during this period of transition [NTA, UK]
Alcohol Statistics Scotland
This biennial publication presents the latest available information from a range of national data sources relating to alcohol [Alcohol Information Scotland, UK]
Alcohol dependence and harmful alcohol use
Full guideline [NICE, UK]
Doctors in UK alcohol network may refuse to sign action pledge because it is too weak
Doctors in the UK government’s “responsibility deal” network on alcohol are considering refusing to sign the group’s plan of action because the policies don’t go far enough in tackling the price and availability of alcohol [British Medical Journal]
NEET Statistics - Quarterly Brief - Quarter 4 2010
This brief sets out the latest statistics available on NEET (young people not in employment, education or training) in England [Department of Education, UK]
The development of international drug control
Lessons learned and strategic challenges for the future PDF [Transnational Institute, Netherlands]
Budget 2011
The EMCDDA receives stable funding under Commission budget line B3-441 of the general budget of the European Union [EMCDDA]
Measuring the effectiveness of drug law enforcement
Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no.406 Download paper [Australian Institute of Criminology]