DS Daily - 19th September 2011 |
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Employment and recovery survey
The Recovery Partnership is producing a paper for Inter-Ministerial Group on Drugs on employment, education, training and recovery. To help inform the paper, we are inviting service providers and service users to complete one of two surveys (deadline 29th September). They include questions about experiences of the Work Programme and Jobcentre Plus. Service provider survey and Service user survey | Recovery Partnership, UK
Lib Dems vote overwhelmingly to set up panel to consider decriminalising drugs
Motion also offers show of support for Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, following high profile resignations from body | Guardian, UK
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Strong ecstasy pill blamed for death of reveller, 20, at party
A powerful ecstasy pill is believed to have caused the death of a young man in Inverness and left his friend in a serious condition in hospital | The Herald, Scotland, UK
Love conquers hate - a free article from new Druglink magazine
One woman’s struggle to come in from a cocaine blizzard to the shelter of recovery | DrugScope, UK
War on drugs guilty of wounding youngsters
When a 12-year-old go-karter is banned for two years, it's time to think again | Independent, UK
Lib Dems can lead the way on drug policy
The Lib Dems have long held the most reasonable, evidence based drug policy of the three biggest UK parties, and if passed, their latest drugs motion would build on that history in grand style | Politics.co.uk
Cannabis, synthetic cannabinoids, and psychosis risk: What the evidence says
A review of the evidence on marijuana’s impact on the risk of developing psychotic disorders, as well as the potential contributions of “medical” marijuana and other legally available products containing synthetic cannabinoids to psychosis risk | Current Psychiatry
Patchy progress in implementing population-wide alcohol harm reduction
The latest Effectiveness Bank bulletin highlights three at best partially successful attempts to go beyond specialist treatment to reduce drink-related harm more widely, plus further confirmation that more treatment (in this case for youth cannabis use) is not always better | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Protecting the health of the people of Manchester
Chapter 4 - Blood borne viruses in injecting drug users | Public Health Manchester, UK
Survey to inform response to Government review of PSHE education
As PSHE education practitioners, your input into the Government review of PSHE education is hugely important. By completing this questionnaire by end of Monday 10th October you can help inform the PSHE Association response | PSHE, UK
Alison Chesney & Eddie Killoran Memorial Lecture
The lecture will take place on Wednesday 19th October 2011, at 17.45 prompt in the John Snow Lecture Theatre, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London | Knowledge-Action-Change, UK
Crime minister Lady Browning resigns on health grounds
Crime Prevention Minister Baroness Browning is stepping down from the government on health grounds, Downing Street has said | BBC, UK
Shatter to review mandatory terms for drugs offences
The Government will review the policy of mandatory sentences for certain drug offences, examine ways to get prisoners with mental health problems out of the prison system and enhance the internal complaints procedure for prisoners, the Minister for Justice announced | Irish Times
Time to address stimulant abuse on our campuses
Like doping in sports, abuse of stimulants by our best and brightest students should be denormalized by being viewed as cheating or substance abuse, pure and simple | CMAJ, Canada
State Dems: Legalize marijuana
By a 75-43 vote, Washington state Democrats voted Saturday to endorse Initiative 502, which would legalize marijuana with distribution and sales put under control of the Liquor Control Board | Seattle PI, USA
Addiction Expert Calls for More Doctors to be Trained in Prescribing Suboxone
Elinore McCance-Katz, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco and former president of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, talked with Join Together about ways to increase Suboxone treatment | Join Together, USA
Drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in U.S., data show
Propelled by an increase in prescription narcotic overdoses, drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States, a Times analysis of government data has found | LA Times, USA
Measuring the Health of Communities
In this article, authors Remington and Booske note the inextricable ways improving the health of an individual is tied to improving the health of their community | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, USA
New AIDS Cases Dropped 25% This Year, City Reports
People getting infected from intravenous drug use has gone from the thousands to 185 | New York Times, USA
Prisoner overdose prompts calls for review
The ACT Opposition is calling for an inquiry into medication procedures at Canberra's jail after the accidental overdose of a prisoner | ABC News, Australia
UN summit targets obesity, alcohol and smoking
World leaders will agree to a deal at a United Nations meeting on 19th to try to curb the spread of preventable ''lifestyle'' diseases, amid concern that progress is already being hampered by powerful food, alcohol and tobacco lobbyists | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Confronting new tobacco health warnings
The Gillard Government’s campaign to drastically cut smoking rates reached another milestone today with the release of new graphic health warnings for tobacco products | Ministry for Health and Ageing, Australia