DS Daily - 26th January 2010 |
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Further Anthrax Cases Confirmed
Two further cases of anthrax, one of whom has died, have been confirmed in drug users in Scotland, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in this outbreak to seventeen [Health Protection Scotland, UK]
Anthrax and Heroin Users - What Workers Need to Know
This guide aims to provide staff working with heroin users in specialist and non-specialist settings with key information on: how heroin users can become infected - signs and symptoms of anthrax - what workers can do to help [Scottish Drugs Forum, UK]
Workers' anthrax briefing aims to save lives
Face-to-face group briefing sessions for workers engaged directly with heroin users at risk of infection to complement the new briefing document [Scottish Drugs Forum, UK]
Self detox
Because of the recent Anthrax outbreak in Scotland I've decided it is time to rewrite my self detox handout [Injecting Advice, UK]
“Let’s Talk About Drugs” Media Awards for Community Groups
We are inviting students and adults to research and write an original article about the drugs issue before 14th February 2010 [City Wide, UK]
Tennent's backs minimum alcohol price policy
The head of one of Scotland's biggest alcohol brands has backed controversial moves for minimum pricing for alcohol [BBC, UK]
Our mother's drinking was wrecking us
Children of alcoholics can escape the emotional chaos at home with the right support. Here, three young people explain how their lives have been changed [Times, UK]
Ready or not
The route out of childhood towards an adult way of living is uneven. It takes most young people a while to complete [Catch 22, UK]
Smokers given early ageing shock
People who smoke are being encouraged to stop by being shown what they may look like in 20 years time if they do not kick the habit [BBC, UK]
Drugs, Homelessness & Health: Homeless Youth Speak Out About Harm Reduction
The Shout Clinic Harm Reduction Report, 2010 [Wellesley Institute, Canada]
Britain's Battle With Booze
In restricting alcohol, as in war, the U.K. need only ask: 'What would Churchill do?' [Wall Street Journal, USA]
Beckley Briefing paper - Drug use: Knowledge, Culture and Context
This briefing paper aims to stimulate discussion around the need for a qualitative corrective to complement the currently dominant quantitative approach. While leaving some areas of this emergent debate unexplored, we examine the major causes and effects of the relatively impoverished understanding of drug use, and go on to suggest ways in which the situation can begin to be addressed and alleviated [International Drug Policy Consortium]
Beckley Briefing paper - What can we learn from Sweden’s drug policy experience?
This briefing paper will analyse Swedish drug control policy in its legal, clinical, political, social and cultural dimensions and consider the claims and policy-objectives it has been used to support. In the course of this analysis, it will explore the implications of Sweden’s model, if any, for other countries [International Drug Policy Consortium]