DS Daily - 30th August 2011 |
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The State of Men’s Health in Europe
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the state of men’s health across the 27 Member States of the European Union, the 4 states of the European Free Trade Association and the 3 candidate countries. It highlights the broad range of mortality and morbidity data arising from the many different health conditions which affect men in Europe | European Commission
Millions of middle class Britons drinking too much, claims report
Millions of couples who share a bottle of wine over dinner are unwittingly putting their lives at risk by underestimating the dangers of alcohol, a report has warned | Telegraph, UK
Lib Dems planning 'tipple tax' on every drink sold to help NHS and police costs
The Liberal Democrats are drawing up plans for a controversial new ‘tipple tax’ on every drink sold in a pub – despite warnings it will cripple the struggling industry | Daily Mail, UK
What would you do about stigma?
Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium are gathering ideas on how to tackle the stigma that can be faced by people with drug problems and addiction and would like to know what you think | Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium, UK
Call for prison drug treatment centre
A drug treatment centre for prisoners needs to be opened in Ireland, Fr Peter McVerry of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin has said | Irish Times
Drug Testing the Poor: Bad Policy, Even Worse Law
Mandatory drug testing for welfare applicants is becoming a popular idea across the U.S. Many states - including Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Louisiana - are considering adopting laws like Florida's | TIME, USA
Attorneys claim Michael Jackson was drug addict, wants inner circle to testify
Defense lawyers for Michael Jackson's personal physician signaled Monday that they intend to rely on witnesses from Jackson's own inner circle to portray the singer as a desperate drug addict constantly "on the hunt" for the surgical anesthetic that killed him | LA Times, USA
Prison officers stand firm against needle exchange
Negotiations about a proposed needle exchange program at Canberra's prison appear to have reached a stalemate | ABC News, Australia
Reducing the prison “revolving door” with methadone
More than eight in ten prisoners who use heroin in NSW will be back in prison within two years of being released. But this rate can be cut by 20 per cent if they leave prison on methadone treatment and stay on it in the community | NDARC, Australia
Substance use disorder treatment must become mainstream says former Obama Deputy Drug Czar
Tom McLellan, Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Director of the Centre for Substance Abuse Solutions at the University of Pennsylvania, said the substance abuse field has become segregated from the rest of medicine | New Zealand Drug Foundation
Addiction treatment in New Zealand requires urgent change
Addiction treatment in New Zealand has been seriously underfunded for many decades, National Addiction Centre Director Professor Doug Sellman told a symposium in Wellington today | Scoop, New Zealand
NZ has a drinking problem
The main parties have always warred internally about alcohol laws, so rather than risk blowing parties apart, they have left alcohol law up to individual MPs who have blown it, repeatedly | Stuff.co, New Zealand