Weekly news - 1st June 2012 |
 |
Providing drug and alcohol recovery through payment by results
Pilot site presentations | Department of Health, UK
Drug Related Hospital Statistics Scotland 2011
Hospital data relating to drug use in Scotland 2010/11. Download | ISD Scotland, UK
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Temporary Class Drug) order 2012
First Delegated Legislation Committee | House of Commons, UK
Alcohol Related Hospital Statistics 2012
Alcohol-related hospital discharge statistics are published annually by ISD in two different publications, which are released in alternate years. They are included in this Alcohol-related Hospital Statistics report, which is published every two years | ISD Scotland, UK
Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy
A review of the validity and reliability of alcohol retail sales data for the purpose of Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy. March 2012 Revised May 2012 | NHS Health Scotland, UK
Statistics on Alcohol: England, 2012
This statistical report acts as a reference point for health issues relating to alcohol use and misuse, providing information obtained from a number of sources in a user-friendly format | NHS Information Centre, UK
Summary of the 2011 ESPAD report
This is a summary of the 2011 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) which aims to collect comparable data on substance use among 15–16 year-old European students in order to monitor trends within as well as between countries | EMCDDA
Crucial British alcohol screening and brief intervention studies
For the future of UK alcohol screening and brief intervention, studies do not get more important than the SIPS trials highlighted in this new bulletin from the Effectiveness Bank. Do just the minimum, is the message austerity-hit commissioners might take from the studies, but that would be to over-read their implications | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Street Talk Report
The programme allowed us to work with grass roots partners across five communities, introducing an evidence based brief intervention aimed at preventing young people misusing alcohol and drugs, with the associated anti social behaviour | Mentor, UK
Hospitals discharging homeless people onto the street
More than 70% of homeless people are being discharged from hospital back onto the streets, damaging their health and costing the NHS money, a report by Homeless Link and St Mungo’s indicates | Homeless Link, UK
Opium Winter Risk Assessment 2012 - (Phase 1&2)
In 2012, the Opium Risk Assessment is carried out in two phases similar to last year. The first phase was carried out in December 2011 and January 2012 and covered the Central, Eastern, Southern and Western region, where opium is sown in fall 2011. The second phase took place in February-March 2012 and covered the Northern and North-eastern regions, where opium poppy is cultivated in spring | UNODC