Weekly news - 11th March 2011 |
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Home Office Drug Strategy blog
The blog will run for two weeks to capture comments and thoughts from delivery partners and will then be evaluated to see if it is a useful way to share views and ideas, successes and challenges [Home Office, UK]
2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
The 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act. Volume I and Volume II [Department of State, USA]
INCSR - United Kingdom section
[Department of State, USA]
Drug Use and Possession
Royal Commission - Question for Short Debate. House of Lords debates, 9 March 2011, 7:48 pm [Thy Work For You, UK]
New plans announced to tackle smoking challenge
‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A Tobacco Control Plan for England’ sets out how tobacco control will be delivered over the next five years. Download and Academic review of smokefree legislation [Department of Health, UK]
Statutory Homelessness
4th Quarter (October to December) 2010, England [Communities and Local Government, UK]
Homeless persons legislation in Scotland
The publication provides detailed information about applications to local authorities for assistance under homelessness legislation covering the period April to September 2010, including the main reasons for homelessness [Scottish Government, UK]
Statistics From The Northern Ireland Drug Addicts Index 2010
People are registered on the index if they are known to be, or if a medical practitioner considers them to be, addicted to one or more of 14 controlled drugs [eGov monitor, UK]
"Drugs, Brains, and Behavior - The Science of Addiction"
How Science Has Revolutionized the Understanding of Drug Addiction - PDF [NIDA, USA]
National Drug Strategy 2010-2015
The Strategy is the result of an of an extensive consultation process that began in December 2009 with the release of a consultation paper and concluded in December 2010 with the close of comments on a draft of the Strategy. Full Strategy [Australian Government]
Needle and Syringe Program
Treatment service users (TSU) project: phase two [Department of Health and Ageing, Australia]
Severe Substance Dependence Treatment Act 2010
The Severe Substance Dependence Treatment Act 2010 (the Act) came into effect in Victoria on 1 March 2011 - Summary PDF [Department of Health, Victoria, Australia]
Severe Substance Dependence Treatment Regulations 2011
Authorised by the [Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Australia]
Comorbidity competencies
Skills indicators - ATOD practitioners will need to support clients with multiple and complex needs - mapping undertaken by Hannah Graham and Rob White as a component of their Salvation Army Bridge Program / University of Tasmania Comorbidity Improved Services Initiative (ISI) capacity building project [School of Sociology & Social Work, University of Tasmania]