DS Daily - 31st August 2011 |
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More clues to how best to do motivational interviewing
This London study of cannabis-using students found they were most likely to stop using after brief motivational interventions which embodied the spirit of the approach and featured responses from the counsellor reflecting back and elaborating on comments from the student | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Overdose Awareness Day on Twitter
This page is set to show the most recent Overdose Day Tweets | Injecting Advice, UK
Prison alcohol rehabilitation urgently needed to cut crime
Over a third (34%) of prisoners assessed by drug/alcohol advice services in prison are severely dependent on alcohol. However there are currently only three intensive treatment programs for alcohol dependent male prisoners in the entire prison system | RAPt, UK
Under the Influence - Parents and Binge Drinking
The results show that, even when accounting for income, education, ethnicity, gender, parents' drinking and more, parenting style is enormously important | Huffington Post, UK
The truth about social smoking
Surely just one or two cigarettes a day can't do us much harm – can they? Jeremy Laurance stubs out some medical myths | Independent, UK
Forget welfare, the poorest people must now rely on 'charity'
There is £100m to pay to get problem families into work in a year. But it is not enough | Guardian, UK
Why Britain needs a new kind of National Service
I am proposing the creation of a National Volunteer Programme, a wide-ranging scheme to give volunteering opportunities to all young people aged between 16 and 25 - David Blunkett | Daily Mail, UK
The use of benzodiazepines within the Traveller community
An overview of the extent of the problem with recommended actions for change | Pavee Point Drugs Programme, Ireland
Does Drug Testing the Poor Do Anything to Reduce Addiction?
There's no evidence that simple drug testing actually reduces rates of drug use | TIME, USA
Needle decision pricks at Govt
This week, Chief Minister Katy Gallagher acknowledged there was next to no likelihood that a needle exchange program would be introduced at the jail as long as prison officers remained opposed to the idea | Canberra Times, Australia
Poor healthcare in Victoria's jails a 'major threat'
For example, 41 per cent of Victorian prisoners have hepatitis C compared with 1 per cent in the general population | The Age, Australia
Call for answers into high death rate from prescription drug overdoses
The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association said oxycodone, which is often prescribed for chronic pain management, has resulted in 97 deaths in 2009 compared to just four deaths in 2000 | Herald Sun, Australia
Through the Maze
Making Treatment Better - Podcasts & presentations - Julian Buchanan | New Zealand Drug Foundation