Weekly news - 13th January 2012 |
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Tackling drug-abuse is a national priority, er, depending on where you live
The drug strategy sets out a compelling vision which can engage and motivate local communities, but localism in a period of austerity risks disinvestment for a stigmatised group. If we get this wrong the consequences will be far-reaching and devastating for people willing to make the commitment to turn their lives around and begin the recovery journey, as well as their families and communities - Noreen Oliver, Martin Barnes | Parliamentary Briefing, UK
Alcohol guidelines
Eleventh Report of Session 2010–12 | Science and Technology Committee, House of Commons
Minimum pricing study published
The research, out of the Centre for Addictions, is based on 20 years of data from 1989 to 2010, and suggests that a 10 percent increase in the minimum price of an alcoholic beverage leads to a more than 16 percent decrease in its consumption compared to other beverages | Alcohol Focus Scotland, UK
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
Measuring personal outcomes: Challenges and strategies
This Insight, written by Dr Emma Miller, Honorary Senior Research Associate at Glasgow School of Social Work, will consider some of the challenges of measuring outcomes and emerging responses to these | IRISS, 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
Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), 2009
The DAWN public-use dataset provides information for all types of drugs, including illegal drugs, prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, dietary supplements, anesthetic gases, substances that have psychoactive effects when inhaled, alcohol when used in combination with other drugs (all ages), and alcohol alone (only for patients aged 20 or younger) | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive, 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