DS Daily - 12th July 2011

Drug Treatment and Testing Orders: Guidance for Schemes

The emphasis of a DTTO is on drugs treatment as the primary means of reducing offending behaviour rather than the specific offence focused approach of a probation order | Scottish Government, UK

Bars to Learning

Practical Challenges to the ‘Working Prison | CIVITAS: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, UK

Opening up public services

The Prime Minister has set out the need for reform and modernisation of our public services, to ensure everyone has the choice and control of the services they use | Prime Minister’s Office, UK

Drug Education Survey (Year 7+)

Are you at a school in London? Are you in Year 7 or above? If so, the London Youth Involvement Project would love to hear about your experiences of drug education | Mentor, UK

Report: worrying new trends in increasing pre-teen and male runaways

Children as young as eight are running away from home or care and in most cases are not being reported to the authorities, reveals Make Runaways Safe, a new report by | The Children’s Society, UK

Summer drink-drive campaign begins

Nearly two in three motorists think the responsibility for cutting alcohol-related deaths on the roads lies with the drink-driver themselves, an AA/Populus survey has shown | Daily Express, UK

Smoking during pregnancy causes birth defects

The risk for having a baby with missing or deformed limbs or a cleft lip is over 25% higher for smokers, data show | BBC, UK

Irish teens the biggest users of legal highs

The EU yesterday announced a clampdown on legal highs as a study revealed Irish teenagers to be the biggest users in Europe | Independent, Ireland

Drinking guidelines not high enough, new study finds

Improved guidelines are needed to better inform the public of the long-term risks of consuming amounts of alcohol that, right now, many may consider to be safe, according to a report published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal | Globe and Mail, Canada

2011 National Drug Control Strategy - About

Building on the Obama Administration's inaugural Strategy, released last year, the 2011 National Drug Control Strategy serves as the Nation's blueprint for reducing drug use and its consequences | ONDCP, USA

2011 National Drug Control Strategy - Full report

The full report | ONDCP, USA

2011 National Drug Control Strategy - Budget summary

Budget Summary | ONDCP, USA

Project Lazarus: Solving Opioid Problems Sensibly

While much has been said and written about problems associated with opioid analgesics, relatively little has been effectively done as yet to stem the tide of misuse, abuse, overdoses, and deaths | Pain-Topics, USA

Addictive drugs hijack brain's fundamental pathways

Australian and US scientists have proved that the same area of the brain that is activated when the body craves salt ''lights up'' in response to cocaine or opium, suggesting addictive drugs have hijacked a pathway of the brain used for instinctive behaviour | The Age, Australia

Grog labels to carry cigarette-style health warnings

New cigarette-style health warnings will appear on the labels of popular alcoholic drinks from today | Herald Sun, Australia

Bolivia’s legal reconciliation with the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

Member states should find a way to support Bolivia in reconciling its constitutional and treaty obligations, moving away from a rigid defence of every word of the 50 year old Single Convention, to create a drug control framework that is fit for purpose for the 21st Century | IDPC

More drug addicts rehabilitation centers needed

The Ministry of Narcotics Control has established Model Addiction Treatment and Rehabilitation Centers (MATRC) at Quetta, Islamabad, Karachi and in Adiala Jail.Health experts say that majority of existing treatment and rehabilitation facilities provide detoxification services only, particularly in the public sector run health facilities and no rehabilitation programmes exist | Pakistan Observer

DrugWorld

For July | Paul Cook