DS Daily - 8th January 2010 |
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Health Committee Report - Alcohol
It is time the Government listened more to the CMO and the President of the RCP and less to the drinks and retail industry [Parliament, UK]
Closure of alcohol treatment course prompts threat of judicial review
The closure of an abstinence-based alcohol treatment course has triggered a threat of judicial review by activists who fear the health service is cutting back on funding for the independent sector within the NHS [Guardian, UK]
Prof Nutt's new drugs group 'to rival' official panel
Prof Nutt said the new group would be "very powerful" and would take over the role of the official Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) [BBC, UK]
Heroin contaminated with anthrax could kill fifty addicts in Scotland
Health officials fear that a deadly anthrax outbreak could kill up to 50 heroin addicts across Scotland after the epidemic claimed its sixth victim [The Scotsman, UK]
Nick Heather on Harm Reduction where it 'properly applies'
Nick talks about the work of Mansell Pattison in the 1970s of ‘attenuated drinking’ and makes other points about the goals of controlled drinking and moderation. “It’s when you extend that principle (of harm reduction) to everybody, I think, that you get the problems.” [FEAD, UK]
Nick Heather on the 'controlled drinking controversy' and the origins of his interest in alcohol
Nick references David Davies, the Sobells and Australian work on controlled drinking treatment. Nick talks about how his interest in this topic was sparked, the book he wrote with Ian Robertson on this topic and the early trial of controlled drinking treatment they carried out [FEAD, UK]
Commission wins grant to examine drug shame
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has awarded £60,450 from its Social Justice programme to the UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC) to identify for the first time the scale of stigma and prejudice towards recovering drug users [UKDPC]
Police use snow to find drug dens
Snow melting prematurely on a roof could be a clue that the house is being used as a cannabis factory, police say [BBC, UK]
National Substance Misuse Strategy 2009 – 2016
Call For Submissions [Office of the Minister for Drugs, Ireland]
New HCLU short film about Transform's Blueprint
A short film featuring Transform's new publication 'After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation', filmed at the recent DPA conference in Albuquerque [TDPF, UK]
NIDA Researchers Discover A New Mechanism Underlying Cocaine Addiction
Researchers have identified a key epigenetic mechanism in the brain that helps explain cocaine's addictiveness, according to research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health [NIDA, USA]
Trends in Adult Female Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions Reporting Primary Alcohol Abuse: 1992 to 2007
Between 1992 and 2007, the proportion of all adult female substance abuse treatment admissions with primary alcohol abuse declined from 47.4 percent to 33.4 percent; of these [SAMHSA, USA]