DS Daily - 1st June 2011 |
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Alcohol ban threat for Scotland’s under 21s
People under the age of 21 could be prevented from buying alcohol from many off-sales, corner shops and supermarkets under new powers to be introduced across Scotland later this year | The Herald, Scotland, UK
Stores facing drinks controls
The SNP Government is to revisit plans to ban the sale of drink at supermarket self-ser-vice tills amid concerns youngsters can readily buy alcohol using automated machines | The Herald, Scotland, UK
Warning over alcohol ban on under 21s
The Scottish Government has been warned of a backlash from young people and the licensed trade over plans to allow restrictions on under 21s buying alcohol from some off-sales, supermarkets and corner shops | The Herald, Scotland, UK
Drink-driving crackdown is launched
Drink-drivers are in the sights of police officers during a newly-launched summer crackdown | The Mirror, UK
Scripps Research scientists find key mechanism in transition to alcohol dependence
A team of Scripps Research Institute scientists has found a key biological mechanism underpinning the transition to alcohol dependence. This finding opens the door to the development of drugs to manage excessive alcohol consumption | EurekAlert
Audio - Street homelessness and rough sleeping - Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick - Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy and Director of the Centre of Housing Policy at the University of York - describes the findings of her research into street homelessness and rough sleeping in England | IRISS, UK
Conference Consortium statement
It is with much regret that we inform you that the Conference Consortium ceased trading on the 18th May 2011 | Conference Consortium, UK
Rhyl parishioners pay for woman's drugs rehabilitation
Parishioners at a Denbighshire church are raising £240 a month to pay for the rehabilitation of a woman trying to get off drugs | BBC, UK
Mental health experts warn against pace of incapacity benefit cuts
Open letter to Guardian suggests changes to welfare system are having 'devastating' impact, driving some to suicide attempts | Guardian, UK
Cannabis use 'damages the brain in early teens', frightening new study reveals
Children who smoke cannabis before their 15th birthday perform much worse in mental tests than those who start at a later age, warn researchers at the Research carried out at the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil | Daily Mail, UK
Nacro wins £1.5m to improve the chances of young people leaving custody
It’s one of only three England-wide projects and will enable Nacro, and our research partners, to assess and promote the most effective ways to help young people leaving custody resettle successfully and stop returning to crime | Nacro, UK
EU urged to adopt plain packaging on tobacco
On World No Tobacco Day today (Tuesday) Cancer Research UK has renewed its call for the European Union (EU) to adopt standardised, plain packaging with graphic pictures of health warnings on all tobacco products | Cancer Research UK
Mental illness and drug abuse rife in homeless
Severe mental illness has a high prevalence in the homeless population, with particularly high levels of psychotic illness and substance dependence, as well as risk factors for suicide and violence, a new study has found | Irish Medical Times
Teenager dies after taking legal high
Coroner of inquests John Needham has issued a stark warning about the dangers of legal highs after a 17 year-old girl overdosed on MDAI. The drug, which can be bought over the internet, is still legal in the Isle of Man | Manx Radio
Time right for supervised injection site in Victoria
On the three-year anniversary of the closure of Victoria' s problem-plagued needle exchange for drug addicts, the former operators are still committed to another try | Vancouver Sun, Canada
Harm reduction: Lifesaver or trap?
From a safe injection site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to Victoria's former troubled needle exchange on Cormorant Street, no aspect of addiction services grabs more headlines than harm reduction | Times Colonist, Canada
New law on crack cocaine could apply to old cases
A year ago, a drug dealer caught with 50 grams of crack cocaine faced a mandatory 10 years in federal prison. New rules cut that to as little as five years, and thousands of inmates not covered by the change are saying their sentences should be reduced, too | Seattle PI, USA
Florida to test all welfare recipients for drugs
Florida will begin testing welfare recipients for illicit drug use under a new law signed by Governor Rick Scott on Tuesday | Reuters
Bill pushes electronic log of drug substance sales
The state Assembly has taken a step to close a loophole that allows the abuse of a key ingredient in methamphetamine | SF Gate, USA
More to the drugs debate than injecting rooms
The problem is that the debate hasn't altered at all. We need to change the record on the policy debate surrounding supervised injecting rooms | The Age, Australia
Video - Injecting centres Melbourne
Former heroin addict Adam Forbes, now a counsellor at Richmond's Buoyancy drug support centre, says ... an injecting room is unlikely to encourage drug use, but rather support those who are already addicted and give them a better chance at changing their lives | Australian Associated Press
Abbott out of puff on plain cigarette packet laws
Australia will have the world's toughest anti-smoking measures from July next year, after the Coalition agreed to back the Gillard government's push for plain-packaged cigarettes | The Australian
'Woefully deficient' youth services
New Zealand has a "woefully deficient" number of mental health services aimed specifically at young people, a report released today has found | New Zealand Herald