DS Daily - 13th June 2011 |
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Prevention and early intervention from school to college to work
In this new bulletin from Drug and Alcohol Findings are mixed but always instructive results from substance use prevention and early intervention attempts across the life stages. Among them are negative school studies which raise questions about relying on developer-led evaluations and whether promising programmes really will work in the real world | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
NSP Outcomes tool
Over the last year or so I've come across a lot of people talking about developing tools for monitoring 'Outcomes' in needle programmes, but I've yet to see one that actually manages to work in real life. Over the last month I've been developing a tool for NSPs that may be a solution - download | Injecting Advice, UK
Drinks firm sponsors midwife training on dangers of alcohol in pregnancy
Scheme aims to help one million expectant mothers but the public-private initiative has been criticised as a conflict of interest | Guardian, UK
Critics line up as alcohol giant funds health campaign
Government turns to Guinness brewer to warn against the dangers of drinking while pregnant | Independent, UK
Video: Ed Mitchell - Lost & Found
A new documentary on the latest steps to recovery of former BBC and ITN broadcaster, Ed Mitchell, is broadcast exclusively on | Inexcess TV, UK
2010-11 Annual Report and Accounts
Text only here | Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium
30 years on: people living with HIV in the UK about to reach 100,000
There is no doubt that the magnitude of the epidemic through IDU would have been more significant had it not been for the successful introduction of needle exchange programmes (NEP) in 1985 | Health Protection Agency, UK
Does Portugal have the solution to our drug epidemic?
Portugal now has one of Europe's lowest lifetime usage rates for cannabis and heroin abuse has decreased among vulnerable younger age-groups | Independent, Ireland
Press Ombudsman upholds Citywide Complaint
Citywide, the Irish Needle Exchange Forum & the International Harm Reduction Association on behalf of more than thirty Irish drug service providers and professionals lodged a joint complaint to the Office of the Press Ombudsman against the Irish Independent, and the column "Sterilising junkies may seem harsh, but it does make sense" by Ian O'Doherty (18 February 2011 ). The Press Ombudsman has upheld our complaint | City Wide, Ireland
Time to use the nuclear option in the drugs 'war' - legalise them all
Like the rest of the world, we have been waging this war for 40 years or thereabouts, and frantically refusing to believe the evidence | Independent, Ireland
Addicts become amateur assassins to pay off debts
Just five murders in capital this year but gardai expect feuds to escalate | Independent, Ireland
Supermarkets and off-licences now account for 33% of all alcohol sales
Consumers are buying more alcohol in supermarkets and off-licences, both of which now account for a third of all alcohol sales | Irish Examiner
A Real Debate About Drug Policy
George P. Shultz and Paul A. Volcker on why the 'war on drugs' has failed—and what to do next | Wall Street Journal, USA
Medical Marijuana Law Doesn’t Trump Employer’s Drug Policy
Washington state’s Supreme Court upheld a Colorado company’s decision to fire a woman for failing a required drug test due to pot use, even though she had a valid medical marijuana prescription | Wall Street Journal, USA
Prescription pills blamed for 'Pharmageddon' in Kentucky
In the green, wooded hills of eastern Kentucky, two mothers pore over photographs of daughters lost to prescription pills | BBC, UK
True cost of drugs
More than half of inmates currently in U.S. federal prisons were convicted of narcotics offences | Daily Mail, UK
Drugs bought with virtual cash
A hidden online marketplace that offers drugs such as heroin, LSD and cannabis has become so popular that it can no longer meet demand from prospective | The Age, Australia
Alcohol and Assault on Friday and Saturday Nights
Findings from the DUMA Program | AIC, Australia