DS Daily - 8th July 2010 |
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Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs Naphyrone Report (2010)
This report is a consideration of naphyrone (also known as NRG-1, Energy1, or O-2482; or naphthylpyrovalerone), a naphthyl analogue of pyrovalerone, which acts as a triple monoamine reuptake inhibitor, producing psychostimulant effects (hereafter referred to as naphyrone). Internationally, it is controlled under Schedule IV of the 1971 UN Conventions. PDF [Home Office, UK]
The legal high naphyrone1 - sold as NRG-1 - should be made illegal
The chemical naphyrone (and related compounds), marketed as the legal high NRG-1, should be made a Class B drug, recommends the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) in its advice to government published today [ACMD, UK]
DrugScope responds to ACMD recommendation to ban ‘legal high’ naphyrone
DrugScope has today responded to the recommendation from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) that the ‘legal high’ naphyrone, and related compounds, are controlled as Class B drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act [DrugScope, UK]
Naphyrone - what is it
New information page on Naphyrone [DrugScope, UK]
Facing the future
Tackling drugs in the new decade – preliminary programme [DrugScope, UK]
New FEAD video
Professor john Davies, University of Strathclyde and Director of the Centre for Applied Social Psychology [FEAD, UK]
Drug use: Personal rights and freedoms
There are many reasons to support government regulation of currently illegal drugs, amongst these are the arguments focusing on the personal rights and freedoms of drug users [TDPF, UK]
Ethnicity and alcohol: a review of the UK literature
Literature review of evidence on drinking patterns among minority ethnic groups in the UK over the last 15 years and on service provision for this group. Full report [Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK]
‘Frontline First’ campaign launches
A new UK-wide campaign to expose NHS budget cuts that are harming patient care, find waste in the NHS and champion nurse-led innovations. ‘Frontline First’ will empower all RCN members to share what is going on at their workplace and help the College to defend care, services and jobs [RCN, UK]
Inmates ‘deal drugs at prison Mass’
This has resulted in some prisoners in Magilligan jail, Co Londonderry, not being allowed to attend Mass, a prison governor said [Belfast Telegraph, UK]
HSE Launches Drugs Awareness Campaign
The campaign is entitled ‘Legal or illegal highs - they’re anything but safe’. The campaign is seeking to raise awareness of the dangers and significant negative mental and physical health effects that can be caused by these psychoactive substances [Drugs.ie, Ireland]
Minister backs drugs legislation
Operators of head shops “can duck but they can’t hide”, Minister for Community Affairs Pat Carey has said [Irish Times]
Sensible Rules, Soon
President Obama did the right thing in December when he repealed the 21-year old ban on federal financing for programs that give drug users access to clean needles. Almost nothing has happened since [New York Times, USA]
ACLU sues Wal-Mart for firing employee using medical marijuana
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart for the termination of a Michigan employee whose doctor verified his illness qualified for medical marijuana use [CNN, USA]
Homeless Young Adult Treatment Admissions
Heroin (26.9 Percent) and alcohol (25.0 Percent) were the most frequently reported primary substances of abuse among homeless young adult admissions in 2008 [SAMHSA, USA]
Full circle
Successes in the war on drugs expose the policy’s limits [The Economist]
NIH-Supported Finding on Cocaine Addiction: Tiny Molecule, Big Promise
Discovery could lead to better ways of predicting drug abuse risk and treating addictions [NIH, USA]
UN Drug Policy in the Dark Ages
I submit that a program which merely moves production and trafficking of drugs from place to place is not a program that actually helps people [Huffington Post, USA]
Adventures of Methadone Man and Buprenorphine Babe
The campaign features two heroes, Methadone Man and Buprenorphine Babe, who work together to help injection drug users in distress and promote drug replacement therapy on a global scale [wheresthemethadone]