DS Daily - 6th September 2011 |
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Fall in opiate and crack use in England: independent research published today
The number of people in England who use heroin and crack has fallen, according to independent research published by the | National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK
National and regional estimates of the prevalence of opiate and/or crack cocaine use 2009/10
This full report was written by: Gordon Hay, Maria Gannon, Jane Casey: The Centre for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow and Tim Millar: The National Drug Evidence Centre, University of Manchester, UK
Drug Misuse Declared 2010
A short presentation about the annual report from the Home Office that tracks adult drug use. There is quite a lot of data about the attitudes and activities of young adults included in the presentation | Drug Education Forum, UK
Commissioning young people’s substance misuse services in secure estate 2011/12
A letter from Richard Bradshaw, Director for DH Offender Health, Ray Hill, Director of Secure Accommodation at Youth Justice Board, and Rosanna O'Connor, Director of Delivery, NTA, provides an outline and overview of next steps for local delivery and implementation | Department of Health, UK
Meeting looks at needle exchange
Residents have set up a petition calling on Swindon Council to reject the plans, as they claim the needle exchange would increase crime by attracting drug addicts and prostitutes to the area | This is Wiltshire, UK
One on every corner - full report
The relationship between off-licence density and alcohol harms in young people | Alcohol Concern, UK
Count the Costs Campaign Events in European Capitals
Video reports of the Count the Costs campaign events organized by the European Drug Policy Initiative in 5 European cities | Drug Reporter, Hungary
Doctor freed after being jailed over faulty cocaine spray test
Juan Rodríguez spent six months in Spanish prison after false positive test on clothes laundered by his grandmother | Guardian, UK
Study Shows Dramatic Increase In Oxycodone Prescriptions
Oxycodone prescriptions in Australia have increased markedly in the past decade and now supplant prescriptions for morphine, according to research published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia | AHHA, Australia
Russia calls for anti-drug agency
Representatives of anti-drug committees from Russia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan are meeting in Kabul to consider measures to combat drug trafficking from Afghanistan | Voice of Russia