DS Daily - 10th February 2010 |
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Taking a stand
Featuring Barbara Harris, whose organisation pays addicted women to take contraception iPlayer [BBC Radio 4, UK]
Pharmacy and attitudes
I’ve had a couple of conversations this week about the way some people feel they are treated in pharmacies when they collect needles [Injecting Advice, UK]
Fears grow of increased Real IRA drugs war
Gardai are cracking down on suspected dissident republicans in the Republic as fears grow of a turf war between the Real IRA and drug gangs [Belfast Telegraph]
Criminal Justice Social Work Statistics, 2008-09
Compared to other orders there are few Drug Treatment and Testing Orders (DTTOs), but their numbers have increased substantially between 2007-08 and 2008-09 [Scottish Government, UK]
The European Alcohol and Health Forum
First Monitoring Progress Report - Summary [RAND]
Alcohol Insight number 69
A survey of general practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding the prevention and management of alcohol-related problems: an update of a World Health Organisation survey ten years on - Final Report [AERC]
Bridlington off-licence fingerprints customers
An off-licence owner in Bridlington has started using fingerprint technology to deter underage drinkers and smokers [BBC, UK]
Smuggled tobacco is a source of ill-health on the cheap
Poor people and children are most at risk from contraband tobacco. But now one city is taking tough action to stub out the problem [Guardian, UK]
As pot-smoking, pill-popping baby boomers age, new health problems may arise
Legions of pot-smoking hippies from decades past have apparently morphed into middle-aged Americans who carry with them a potentially large-scale drug problem [Boston Globe, USA]
Needle exchange raises weighty Catholic moral questions
(RNS) In launching its needle-exchange program last week, the Catholic Diocese of Albany, N.Y., said the decision came down to choosing the lesser evil. Illegal drug use is bad, but the spread of deadly diseases is worse [The Pew Forum, USA]
Drug cartels threaten Mexican stability
The drug cartels of Mexico have grown into such a massive criminal enterprise that they have supplanted the government in whole regions and threaten to turn the country into a narco-state like 1990s-era Colombia, say law enforcement and criminal experts [USA Today]
Alcohol abuse weighs on Army
The Army needs to double its staff of substance-abuse counselors to handle the soaring numbers of soldiers seeking alcohol treatment, said Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army's No. 2 officer [USA Today]
Tests have caught 180 train workers under influence of drugs
A spokeswoman for the Independent Transport Safety and Reliability Regulator said the drugs detected included cannabis, cocaine, opiates, methamphetamines, amphetamines, MDMA and benzodiazepine [Daily Telegraph, Australia]
UN forecasts 'stable' Afghan opium crop
After a major drop over the past two years, Afghanistan's opium cultivation is unlikely to rise or fall dramatically in 2010, a U.N. report said [Guardian, UK]