DS Daily - 3rd May 2011 |
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Mev Brown: Why 'super-size' law will combat drug use
Last week, Holyrood candidate Mev Brown damned our failure to tackle the menace of drug abuse in our communities. Here he offers his radical solution | The Scotsman, UK
Britain 2011: drunk at age one, high on drugs by six
A one-year-old child has been treated in hospital for being drunk and a six-year-old was admitted while high on illegal drugs | Daily Express, UK
BMA Scotland warning over alcohol risks
A BMA Scotland survey suggested that on one day last month GPs saw more than 5,500 patients where alcohol had contributed to their ill health | BBC, UK
GPs seeing 5500 cases of drink-related illness a day
GPs and practice nurses spend more than 600 hours every working day talking to patients with illnesses triggered or exacerbated by their drinking habits | The Herald, Scotland, UK
HIV Prevention Among Injection Drug Users In Kenya and Tanzaniar
New opportunities and progress | Center for Strategic and International Studies, USA
New Multi-Language Resource for People in Recovery
Produced by CSAT, this brochure contains information for older adults on alcohol use and medication-related problems and steps older adults can take to avoid problems resulting from mixing medications | SAMHSA, USA
Quest for Vaccines to Treat Addiction
Frustrated by the high relapse rate of traditional addiction treatments, scientists are working on a strategy that recruits the body's own defenses to help addicts kick drug habits | Wall Street Journal, USA
AOD screening & assessment survey
To find out more about current screening and assessment practice, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre is conducting a study on current screening and assessment practice in Victorian AOD Services | Turning Point, Australia
Overland calls for bottle shop data
More research is needed into the impact of the proliferation of bottle shops on problem drinking, Victoria's Chief Police Commissioner, Simon Overland, says | The Age, Australia
NZLC R122 Controlling and Regulating Drugs - A Review of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975
The Law Commission issues its latest report, Controlling and Regulating Drugs – A Review of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975. Part 1 and Part 2 | Law Commission, New Zealand
Review drags drug law into 21st Century
New Zealand’s 35-year-old Misuse of Drugs Act should be consigned to the rubbish heap of history and replaced with a modern, flexible, health-focussed law fit for purpose for the 21st Century, said the | New Zealand Drug Foundation
Law Commision says drug laws need flexibility
The commission this afternoon tabled in Parliament a major review of New Zealand's drug laws | The Dominion Post, New Zealand
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The biennial Partnership Forum is taking place from March to June 2011, providing a unique opportunity for partners to engage and input into the work of the Global Fund. A key priority area in these consultations is the new five-year strategy that the Global Fund will develop and approve in November 2011| AIDSPortal