DS Daily - 13th January 2012 |
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Press reporting of issues relating to illicit drug use
UKDPC have asked the Leveson Inquiry to look at how the press reports illicit drug use, and its impact on policymaking and public perceptions of people with drug addictions | UKDPC
Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Drugs: Written Evidence
Submitted by | AVA Stella Project, UK
Methadone failures not a prerequisite for benefiting from heroin
Findings from the German heroin prescribing trial call in to question the need to insist on repeated failures on oral methadone before offering heroin prescribing to heroin addicts | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Will the Coalition get to grips with the state sponsored addiction it inherited from Labour?
Pharmacy supervised daily consumption is the mainstay of ‘harm reduction’ - the government’s response to ‘problem drug use’ treatment of the last 12 years - the result of Labour’s targeted policy of ‘gripping’ problem drug users in treatment | Daily Mail, UK
Community budgets 'will give charities more influence', say Navca and Acevo
A ‘community budgets’ policy being trialled by the Communities and Local Government department will allow charities to become more involved in local public sector decision-making, sector bodies have predicted | Third Sector, UK
HIV in injecting drug users in the EU/EEA
In response to a notified increase in HIV cases among injecting drug users (IDU) in Greece and Romania, the European Commission asked the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) in November 2011 to conduct a rapid inquiry among their network of HIV surveillance- and drug focal points to investigate whether such increases had occurred in other countries | EMCDDA
The Myth of Drug-Induced Addiction
This article briefly reviews the empirical evidence surrounding the belief that heroin and cocaine cause addiction - Bruce K. Alexander, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University | Parliament of Canada
B.C. drug deaths linked to ecstasy tainted by methamphetamine
Five people in Alberta and three in B.C. have died in recent weeks after taking the drug | National Post, Canada
Mother's new little helper — Adderall
Stressed-out women are turning to the ADHD drugs their children take | LA Times, USA
Afghanistan - Opium survey 2011
According to the Survey, a joint project between the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and UNODC, cultivation in 2011 has reached 131,000 hectares compared to 123,000 hectares of the previous two years. The amount of opium produced has risen from 3,600 metric tons in 2010 to 5,800 metric tons in 2011 | UNODC
Afghan opium prices soar as production rises
Export earnings from Afghan opiates may be worth US$2.4 billion - equivalent to 15 per cent of GDP | UNODC