DS Daily - 22nd December 2011 |
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Recovery Partnership presentation to the Inter-Ministerial Group on Drugs (23rd November 2011
There are many aspects to supporting recovery but looking not too far ahead, the introduction of the new public health service and the establishment of Public Health England is the most important opportunity but also potentially the biggest challenge, perhaps for a generation … A combination of the removal of the nominal ring fence for drug treatment, a new commissioning environment and competing demands for an ambitious public health agenda create the potential for disinvestment in drug treatment | DrugScope, UK
Letter to the Recovery Partnership from Gus Jaspert, Head of Drugs and Alcohol, the Home Office (December 2011)
"As agreed at the [inter-Ministerial Group on Drugs] meeting I want to provide you with some feedback on the impact of the Recovery Partnership’s input to Ministerial discussions and decisions. IMG discussions are restricted so I cannot repeat these in great detail. I have however, outlined key points of the discussions and summarised outcomes to ensure that those that are helping you with your work get a sense of the collective Ministerial ambition and direction of travel." | DrugScope, UK
Consideration of the use of foil as an intervention, to reduce the harms of heroin and cocaine
The ACMD believe that foil, as an intervention, can support an individual‟s treatment journey towards recovery. In addressing these further questions, the ACMD consider that there is a strong case that foil is exempted under Section 9A of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Foil report) | ACMD, UK
Homelessness: A silent killer
A research briefing on mortality amongst homeless people - Download | Crisis, UK
Dead at 47: homeless people are exposed to much worse than cold
It's not the weather that tends to kill homeless people – it's a descent into addiction and a dearth of services catering to them | Guardian, UK
Knowledge, Attitudes and Motivations to health, 2010
This report presents findings from the Knowledge, Attitudes and Motivations to health (KAM) module included within the 2010 Scottish Health Survey (SHeS and was intended to monitor progress in the process of achieving change in health behaviours through a health education approach - Download | Scottish Public Health Observatory, UK
Lowering the price of hard drugs will reduce crime, study says
A study at the John Jay College, 'More Drugs, Less Crime,' in Manhattan, states that the price of hard drugs for a particular year can help determine the level of crime expected based on a user's ease in acquiring | Daily Mail, UK
Do men and women need different sorts of employment help?
In New York intensive case management coordinating multiple sources of support helped resolve the substance use problems of welfare applicants, but only among the women - who faced the greatest barriers to working - did this promote employment | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
New public health system takes shape as more details published
More details on the design of the new public health system, including the role and responsibilities of local government in public health, the operating model for the new executive agency Public Health England and an overview of how the whole system will work, are published today | Department of Health, UK
Self-harm: review consultation
Review of Clinical Guideline (CG16) – self-harm: The short-term physical and psychological management and secondary prevention of self-harm in primary and secondary care | NICE, UK
Tobacco firms 'misled' public about additives
Cigarette giant Philip Morris 'obscured' evidence of toxicity, claims new report | Independent, UK
State pushes prescription painkiller methadone, saving millions but costing lives
To cut costs, Washington steers Medicaid patients to a narcotic painkiller that costs less than a dollar a dose. The state insists methadone is safe. But hundreds die each year — and more than anyone else, the poor pay the price | Seattle Times, USA
Smoking and the First Amendment
On June 22, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law ... but on November 7, 2011, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction blocking some of its key provisions as unconstitutional restrictions on commercial speech, and the battle seems likely to end up in the Supreme Court | NEJM, USA
Building Capacity in Non-government Alcohol and Drug Services - The Queensland Experience
The report documents the cultural change processes use by 11 alcohol and drug agencies in Queensland provided with capacity building grants from the Department of Health and Ageing to reorient their services to better meet the needs of people with substance misuse and mental health issues | Queensland Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies, Australia
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of India at the Human Rights Council
The joint submission focuses on the death penalty for drug offences; compulsory drug treatment as well as concerns related to the availability of harm reduction services and the right to health - Download | Harm Reduction International