DS Daily - 21st February 2011 |
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Payment by Results update: 16 local areas selected as potential pilot sites
Sixteen local areas in England have been short-listed as potential pilot sites for exploring the introduction of payment by results for drugs recovery [NTA, UK]
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
Column 662: Discussion of the working protocol. Column 663: The Minister’s points about statutory consultation with the ACMD [Parliament, UK]
FRANK drugs advisory service
The total annual budget for FRANK across all three government departments for the 2009/10 financial year was £5.07 million [Home Office, UK]
LDAN/DrugScope conference 2011
Capital Concerns - the future for drug and alcohol services [DrugScope, UK]
Ecstasy does not wreck the mind, study claims
Previous research was flawed, say experts, but findings will shock those who campaign against the drug's use [Guardian, UK]
Scotland exports more cannabis than it imports as Triad farms grow
Secret court papers show there are now greater quantities of the drug leaving the country than coming in [Daily Record, UK]
Reclaiming Lives; Sex Work and Addiction
Claire talks frankly about how women get caught up in a Parallel Society, finding them not only abused but abandoned [Inexcess TV, UK]
The NewLCA! A gearshift change is happening
It’s good to know that organisations like Transform and the IDMU are involved along with Professor Nutt, this should ensure the “New LCA” as Peter is calling it (as a working title for now) has an agenda which will be worth taking seriously [UKCIA]
Drink deaths
Failure to act will cost an extra 250,000 lives by 2031, say doctors [Guardian, UK]
Thousands are 'at risk of alcohol death' say doctors
Writing in The Lancet, leading liver disease specialists say measures including a minimum price of 50p per unit are urgently needed [BBC, UK]
Children of Alcoholics
Concateno launches new testing service to detect chronic excessive alcohol abuse [Concateno, UK]
Cancer risk doubled by alcohol 'view' in North East
Research by Balance, a drink awareness group, says 32% of the region thinks it is reasonable for a woman to drink two glasses of wine five nights a week [BBC, UK]
New alcohol treatment unit opens in Birkenhead
Professor Ian Gilmore opened the new Gilmore unit, at St Catherine’s hospital, in Birkenhead [WirralNews, UK]
Government names new partner to deliver Community Organisers
Locality - a new nationwide network of community led organisations, formed through the merger of the Development Trusts Association (DTA) and bassac - has been chosen to carry out a range of work including developing a training framework, Code of Conduct for Community Organisers, and an Institute for Community Organising [Cabinet Office, UK]
Achieving smoke-free mental health services in Scotland: a consultation
Responses to this consultation will help to inform the Scottish Government's future action on reducing exposure to second-hand smoke in psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric units [Scottish Government, UK]
ASH blames adspend freeze for failures to quit smoking
The number of people who successfully give up smoking has dropped by a third since the Government halted its anti-smoking advertising [Brand Republic, UK]
Budget 2011
The EMCDDA receives stable funding under Commission budget line B3-441 of the general budget of the European Union [EMCDDA]
Kidnappings, incarceration and the world's worst heroin habit
Russia has adopted a hardline policy to a drugs catastrophe [Independent, UK]
Study reveals Moldovans to be the world's biggest drinkers
Citizens of the small, post-Soviet republic of Moldova are the world's biggest drinkers, knocking back the equivalent of more than 18 litres of pure alcohol per year, according to a report released by the World Health Organisation [Independent, UK]
IHRA joins International Coalition Intervening to save Vancouver Safe-Injection Site
An international coalition of harm reduction experts - comprised of the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and CACTUS Montréal - has been granted intervener status to appear before the Supreme Court of Canada to support Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection site, against the Canadian government’s attempts to shutter it [IHRA]
Talking With Your Adult Patients About Alcohol and Drug Problems
A Discussion Guide for Primary Health Care Provider [SAMHSA, USA]
Deaths from Rx Painkillers Still Rising, CDC Says
There were more than 27,000 deaths from prescription drug overdoses in 2007, a number that has risen five-fold since 1990 [Medpage, USA]
Medical marijuana barely dents Mexican drug trade
Domestic pot production and the proliferation of medical dispensaries have affected California's previously strong appetite for Mexican marijuana but have had minimal impact on Mexican traffickers' marijuana revenues [SF Gate, USA]
Parents are giving tweens alcohol, encouraging underage drinking
Approximately 709,000 kids, ages 12 to 14, drink alcohol in the United States, according to a report from SAMHSA. Additionally, more than 100,000 of those kids get the alcohol from a parent or guardian [HULIQ, USA]
Drug
Investigations Lead to Treasury Designation of New Ansari
Money Exchange
This action is part of Treasury’s ongoing efforts to use the Kingpin Act to target the financial and support networks of narcotics traffickers worldwide [DEA, USA]
From NINA to NSNA: No Smokers Need Apply
Smoke-free workplace or job discrimination? [Addiction Inbox, USA]
Mexico's refugees: a hidden cost of the drugs war
No official numbers exist, but the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, or IDMC, estimates 115,000 people have been displaced by Mexico's drug violence [Reuters]
Coroner cautions on methadone
Victoria's supervision of recovering heroin addicts administering methadone is ''extremely dangerous'' and ''fraught with risk'', a coroner has found, because the way ''takeaway'' doses are stored is not checked [The Age, Australia]
Drug relapse brain region found in rats
Experts in the UK said the study was a technical 'tour de force'; however, it did not promise new treatments in humans [BBC, UK]