DS Daily - 3rd February 2011 |
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What should a recovery-oriented drug treatment system look like?
Consultation questionnaire 2nd February to 4th May 2011 [NTA, UK]
'Building recovery' - the NTA seeks help to shape drugs framework
The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) is asking those with a personal or professional interest in drug treatment to be involved in designing a new service framework that will support local areas in delivering the government's new drug strategy [NTA, UK]
How many people go to hospital because of a drug problem where you live?
Latest stats show a rise in the number of people being treated in hospital for drugs problems in England. Find the details for each part of the country [Guardian, UK]
Paul Hayes' speech to Royal College of Psychiatrists
Addiction psychiatrists have a key role to play in leading the development of a recovery-oriented drug treatment system - Paul Hayes [NTA, UK]
Women's groups struggle amid funding cuts
Some women who are fleeing domestic violence, who have drug or alcohol addictions or mental health problems, will end up going to prison unnecessarily, and won't get the help they need. It will end up being far more expensive for the government [Guardian, UK]
Cannabis plants 'worth £1.5m' uncovered in Whitefield
Cannabis plants with an estimated street value of £1.5m have been uncovered by police in Greater Manchester [BBC, UK]
Teenage drinking cultures
This report investigates the influence of friendship groups on teenagers' drinking. Summary - Full report [Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK]
140,000 children across the UK 'forgotten and let down'
140,000 children across the UK are being raised by grandparents and other family and friends due to parental alcohol or substance misuse, according to a new survey released today by Grandparents Plus [The Children’s Society, UK]
Mental Health Strategy to transform health and wellbeing
New plans to transform the mental health and well-being of the nation and ensure - for the first time - that mental health is given the same importance as the nation’s physical health [Department of Health, UK]
Civil service cuts put mental health strategy at risk
The government has admitted it risks undermining its plans to help one million people recover from mental health problems by 2014 because of massive cuts in civil service expertise [Community Care, UK]
The Munro Review of Child Protection
Interim Report, The Child’s Journey, the second report of the independent child protection review [Education.gov, UK]
More to this than red tape
Eileen Munro has presented her interim report on child protection to Government. Simon Antrobus' blog [Addaction, UK]
Changes in Blood-borne Infection Risk Among Injection Drug Users
Data from surveillance systems and cohort studies have collectively suggested that HIV infection incidence among IDUs has declined a trend attributed at least in part to harm-reduction measures including needle exchange programs (NEPs) and substance-abuse treatment [INEF, Ireland]
Lets Talk About Drugs: Media Awards 2011
These awards are organised by the Greater Blanchardstown Response to Drugs (G.B.R.D), these awards are aimed at primary and secondary school students, college students and aspiring members of the media, to stimulate debate around the drugs issue in Irish communities [Drugs.ie, Ireland]
Methadone clinic fight looming
Canada’s largest operator of methadone clinics has set its sights on a London neighbourhood struggling to revitalize [Free Press, Canada]
The General's Drug Problem, Ibogaine Treatment a Promising Solution
The military says that new diagnosis of substance abuse has risen to 40,000 soldiers a year. Further, 25-35% of our special forces become drug dependent after they sustain an injury [SF Gate, USA]
Black drug offenders are 'eight times more likely to be jailed than whites'
The shock figures were uncovered in Cook County, Illinois, after an investigation into the belief that young black men in inner cities were disproportionately arrested, prosecuted and sentenced for drug crime [Daily Mail, UK]
A gruesome paradox
An interactive map of Mexico's security crisis [The Economist]
ONDCP's HIDTA Program Addresses Drug Trafficking on the Southwest Border
The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, which enhances and coordinates drug control efforts among local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies, is part of ONDCP's ongoing efforts to reduce drug trafficking and improve security across the Southwest border region [Of Substance Blog, ONDCP, USA]
Cancer Council calls on all MPs to back five steps to cut recruitment of young smokers
Cancer Council Australia has welcomed the Australian Government’s new anti-tobacco media campaign as the third of five steps towards what promises to be Australia’s most comprehensive national strategy to reduce smoking-related cancers, particularly if it culminates in the mandating of plain packaging for tobacco products [AHHA, Australia]
Smokefree Coalition presenting to Health Select Committee
The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) welcomes the Smokefree Coalition today presenting to the Health Select Committee [Scoop, New Zealand]
Debate in a Pub Argues Whether Alcohol is Ordinary
Labour MP Lianne Dalziel argues that alcohol is an ordinary item like the bread sold beside it in the supermarket and corner dairy [Scoop, New Zealand]
Preventing Project Prevention
After years of working in the United States, an organization that pays female drug users $300 to agree to be sterilized has begun branching out to other parts of the world [Open Society Foundations, USA]
Ukraine: Stop Police Abuse of Methadone Patients
Widespread police harassment has persistently gone hand in hand with any scale-up of substitution treatment in Ukraine, and that reality threatens to negate the positive gains that had been made in containing the spread of HIV over the past five years [Open Society Foundations, USA]
Drug World News
[Paul Cook]