Weekly news - 8th January 2010 |
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Health Committee Report - Alcohol
It is time the Government listened more to the CMO and the President of the RCP and less to the drinks and retail industry [Parliament, UK]
Too much of the hard stuff: what alcohol costs the NHS
This Briefing, produced with the Royal College of Physicians, outlines the extent of the problem and gives examples of where the NHS is managing problem drinkers effectively and efficiently [NHS Confederation, UK]
Further Cases of Anthrax Infection Confirmed In Scotland
Health Protection Scotland have issued the following update on the confirmed cases of anthrax in Scotland [Health Protection Scotland, UK]
Alcohol and food: making the public health connections
A literature review into the links surrounding alcohol and food [Centre for Public Health, UK]
The Independent Council on Drug Harms
Professor David Nutt (Twitter) is working with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies to establish an independent scientific council on drug harms. You can watch David talking about his plans [Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, UK]
Videos with Nick Heather PhD
New videos added to [FEAD, UK]
Commission wins grant to examine drug shame
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has awarded £60,450 from its Social Justice programme to the UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC) to identify for the first time the scale of stigma and prejudice towards recovering drug users [UKDPC]
Overdose workshop
This latest workshop covers a range of overdose issues and has been designed to be run either as a full workshop, or as separate sections in NSP or one to one sessions [Injecting Advice, UK]
Prince's Trust fears unemployment effect on youths
A YouGov poll of more than 2,000 people aged between 16 and 25 showed one in 10 of those who had been out of work had turned to drugs or alcohol abuse [BBC, UK]
Spotlight: alcohol consumption and tackling misuse
Although alcohol is an important industry in Ireland and contributes economic benefits, this Spotlight has shown that the costs of alcohol related harm are substantial [Oireachtas Library and Research Service, Ireland]
NIDA Researchers Discover A New Mechanism Underlying Cocaine Addiction
Researchers have identified a key epigenetic mechanism in the brain that helps explain cocaine's addictiveness, according to research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health [NIDA, USA]
Illicit Drug Use among Older Adults
An estimated 4.3 million adults aged 50 or older, or 4.7 percent of adults in that age range, had used an illicit drug in the past year, based on data from 2006 to 2008 [SAMHSA, USA]
Trends in Adult Female Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions Reporting Primary Alcohol Abuse: 1992 to 2007
Between 1992 and 2007, the proportion of all adult female substance abuse treatment admissions with primary alcohol abuse declined from 47.4 percent to 33.4 percent; of these [SAMHSA, USA]
Age-period-cohort modelling of alcohol volume and heavy drinking days in the US National Alcohol Surveys: Divergence in younger and older adult trends
The decomposition of trends in alcohol volume and heavy drinking days into age, period, cohort and demographic effects offers an important perspective on the dynamics of change in alcohol use patterns in the US [NIH, USA]
“Where Darkness Knows No Limits”
Incarceration, Ill-Treatment and Forced Labor as Drug Rehabilitation in China. 42-page PDF [Human Rights Watch]
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences
A Violation of International Human Rights Law. 33-page PDF [IHRA]