DS Daily - 20th October 2011 |
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Scottish Drugs Strategy Delivery Commission - First Year Report & Recommendations to Minister
The first report on the Scottish Government’s progress in the delivery of the national drugs strategy, the Road to Recovery | Scottish Government, UK
Scotland’s war on drugs ‘is hugely inefficient’
The Scottish Drugs Strategy Delivery Commission’s (DSDC) first report on the national drugs strategy, “The Road To Recovery”, has criticised the lack of “institutional memory” | The Scotsman, UK
Drugs policy mistakes 'repeated'
Initiatives to address Scotland's drug problem are "hugely inefficient" due to the government's failure to learn from past mistakes, senior professionals have warned | Press Association
Under-18s want more protection from alcohol marketing exposure
A survey of over 2300 children and young people reveals concern at alcohol marketing exposure and support for stronger regulation that robustly protects under-18s, finds | Alcohol Concern, UK
Young people want more protection from alcohol advertising, survey says
Alcohol Concern's survey of 2,300 young adults finds many urging more regulation to protect those under drinking age | Guardian, UK
Code Consultation
As part of the Government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal, the Portman Group has undertaken to review the alcohol industry’s Code of Practice on the responsible marketing of alcohol | Portman Group, UK
Foot injecting
People are usually quite good at putting the different sites in some kind of order of risk, but when it comes to the feet they often underestimate the dangers | Injecting Advice, UK
Direct payments not reaching mental health service users
People with mental health problems are being denied the benefits of direct payments because of a lack of staff knowledge and inadequate information from councils, a Rethink Mental Illness report has warned | Community Care, UK
No easy ambition: councils and charities fight to end rough sleeping
London's 'No Second Night Out' project will be expanded across the country as housing professionals seek to prevent new rough sleepers taking to the streets | Guardian, UK
Wales to ban cigarette vending machines from February
The Welsh Government said the ban would cut off a source of tobacco teenagers | Wales Online, UK
Referrals? The risks of being subcontracted
One issue that was shared by both small and large organisations was problems around referrals; lack of referrals, the wrong kind of referrals, how to get them and how to get paid for them | NCVO, UK
Eurozone woes 'increase drug abuse'
Joao Goulao, the Portuguese drugs tsar, explained why he thought the problem was so bad | BBC Radio 4, UK
Legalizing drugs isn’t the answer
If the only alternative to the war on drugs were legalization, then legalization would look good. But there are many other things we can do to minimize the impact of illegal drugs | Globe and Mail, Canada
The Treatment of Incarcerated Mentally Disordered Women Offenders
A Synthesis of Current Research | University of Western Ontario, Canada
Return on Investment
Mental Health Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention | Canadian Policy Network
Ensuring Fairness in our Criminal Justice System
Director Kerlikowske met with Chicago community leaders this week to discuss drug policy and its impact on the African American community | ONDCP, USA
A life-saver for opiate OD victims
Eighty-six people in Quincy have overdosed on opiates since last October, he said. Nine people died. Of the 77 survivors, Quincy police revived 45 using nasal Narcan | Boston Globe, USA
Doctors' stance on pot is sick
The California Medical Assn. is putting the cart before the horse in urging legalization of marijuana so its risks and benefits can be studied | LA Times, USA
Don't legalize marijuana in the name of medicine
The solution to these problems is found in allowing the scientific process to play out, not letting marijuana legalization politics win the day | SF Gate, USA
Prozac nation
How one in 25 American adolescents now takes antidepressants | Daily Mail, UK
Former Mexican president: 'US must legalise drugs to stop violence'
Vicente Fox, who was president from 2001 to 2006, said consumption of drugs in the US was at the root of the problem and he called for the legalisation of drugs in America | BBC, UK
Lies, damned lies and statistics in Mexico's drugs war?
Police forces have become mired in accusations of corruption | BBC, UK
IDRS Bulletin October 2011 - Key findings
Key findings from the 2011 IDRS. PDF | UNSW / NDARC, Australia
IDRS Bulletin October 2011 - Supplement
Drug injection trends among participants in the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey (ANSPS), 1995 - 2010 | UNSW / NDARC, Australia