DS Daily - 2nd April 2010 |
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Eric Carlin's ACMD resignation letter to the Home Secretary
[Eric Carlin, UK]
My resignation from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
I resigned from the ACMD yesterday as a result of my grave concerns and misgivings about the processes we went through at our meeting this week and more generally about the lack of logic and sometimes morality in what we’re required to do [Eric Carlin's blog, UK]
Trashing evidence-based drugs policy
Alan Johnson got his way on mephedrone, but good drug policy depends on looking beyond the media-driven demand for action. David Nutt - Comment [Guardian, UK]
Consideration of the cathinones
Report from the [Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, UK]
NRG-1 may be next legal high to face ban by ministers
Government advisers to investigate possible ban on NRG-1 [Guardian, UK]
Deadly New 'Legal' Drug Bound For Britain
A British "legal drugs" manufacturer based in Belgium has told Sky News the UK is about to be flooded with a deadly new drug called naphyrone [SKY NEWS]
Ketamine reality
As the government prepares to classify mephedrone as a class B drug, Dina Rickman uncovers the dangers of young people's current drug of choice; Ketamine [Guardian, UK]
Only drug dealers will benefit from this absurd ban on mephedrone
Prohibition will drive supply underground, endanger users and make it tougher to wean addicts off harder drugs [Guardian, UK]
Hospitals need alcohol specialists
Hazardous and harmful drinkers are responsible for 75 per cent of the alcohol consumption in the UK [Letter - Times, UK]
Hospitals urged to offer advice to 'alcohol injured'
Hospital staff are being urged to offer advice on reducing drinking levels to people with alcohol-related injuries when they receive follow-up treatment [BBC, UK]
Eighteen dead as cartels bring fight to army
Mexican drug cartels heightened their war with the state by blockading troops in their barracks in two cities close to the US border [Times, UK]
An environmental scan on alcohol and other drug issues facing law enforcement in Australia 2010
This is the second alcohol and other drug environmental scan undertaken for the law enforcement sector in Australia [NDLERF]