Weekly news - 2nd December 2011 |
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Home Affairs Committee launches new inquiry into Drugs
The Committee will undertake a comprehensive review of drugs policy in the new year. The Committee will examine the effectiveness of the Government’s 2010 drugs strategy and the UK Government’s contribution to global efforts to reduce the supply and demand of illicit drugs | Parliament, UK
Estimating the prevalence of problem drug use in Scotland 2009/10
The report contains estimates of the prevalence of problem drug use (opiates and benzodiazepines) in 2009/10 for council, Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP), health board (HB), and police force areas in Scotland - Summary | ISD, Scotland
Substance misuse services in adult prisons in England
As part of the Government’s October 2010 spending review, responsibility for the funding of non-clinical substance misuse services in contracted adult prisons in England transfered to NHS primary care trusts. This letter published jointly by the Department and National Offender Management Service outlines the next steps required to intergrate substance misuse services in prisons | Department of Health, UK
Local government is going back to the future on drugs
Paul Hayes looks at the challenges local government faces in relation to drug treatment | National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK
Delivering a consensus on hepatitis C, substance misuse and health inequalities
Partnerships must continue to prioritise reducing blood-borne viruses and drug-related deaths as part of a recovery-oriented treatment system, NTA Chief Executive, Paul Hayes told a conference on substance misuse and hepatitis C last week | National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK
Young people's lifestyle choices and related health indicators: local area profiles
They include findings from a survey conducted across the North West to assess behaviour and attitudes towards alcohol and tobacco. In addition they draw on other well-established indicators that measure the impact of alcohol and drugs | North West Public Health Observatory, UK
Adfam Policy Briefing 14-25 November
Adfam's latest Policy Briefing is now available for free download, looking at all the developments in families, drugs and alcohol from the past fortnight. For third sector readers there is also a section on the latest news in funding, philanthropy and charity governance | Adfam, UK
Road Casualties: Drinking and Driving, 2010
The latest National Statistics on 2010 Road Casualties Wales: Drinking and Driving - Download | Welsh Government, UK
Online sales of new psychoactive substances / 'legal highs'
A summary of results from the 2011 multilingual snapshots | EMCDDA
NACD study reveals that home grown cannabis has stronger potency than imported variety
The research entitled The potency of cannabis products and their THC content provides the first national baseline for measuring the potency of the drug | National Advisory Committee on Drugs, Ireland
European Alcohol and Health Forum - Third Monitoring Progress Report
This report may be of interest to officials in the EU institutions who deal with alcohol and health policy; to Forum members; and to a wider audience of policy makers and researchers | EAHF
Data from the latest National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services
The report finds that overall there was very little change in the scope and nature of these treatment facilities from 2006 to 2010 | SAMHSA, USA
College administrators worry that use of prescription stimulants is increasing
The White House Office of Drug Control voiced concern about the increase in its latest strategy report, which promises to introduce policies in the next few years that will target college students and a range of substance abuse issues | Washington Post, USA
Feasibility of Using Mycoherbicides to Control Illicit Drug Crops Is Uncertain
The effectiveness of using specific fungi as mycoherbicides to combat illicit drug crops remains questionable due to the lack of quality, in-depth research. Download report | National Acadamies, USA
People living with psychotic illness 2010
The report’s chapter on co-occurring substance use disorders is attached and can be downloaded here | Department of Health and Ageing, Australia
Methamphetamine on the rise in East and South-East Asia
The report, 2011 Patterns and Trends of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants and Other Drugs, Asia and the Pacific, highlights the latest patterns and trends of ATS - a market which includes amphetamine, methamphetamine, methcathinone, and ecstasy-group substances - as well as other illicit drugs in East and South-East Asia | UNODC
Patterns and Trends of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants and Other Drugs – Asia and the Pacific – 2011
A Report from the Global SMART Programme | UNODC