Weekly news - 3rd June 2011 |
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Global Commission on Drug Policy Report
Commission members have agreed on four core principles that should guide national and international drug policies and strategies, and have made eleven recommendations for action. Press release | Global Commission on Drug Policy
DrugScope responds to Global Commission on Drug Policy report
DrugScope has consistently supported an evidence-based and incremental approach to drug law reform and supports calls for the government to consider different ways of using the criminal justice system, including the evidence for the decriminalisation of drugs for possession offences | DrugScope, UK
New guide safeguards children affected by substance misuse
A new practical guide issued on Wednesday, 1st June by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse says those responsible for drink and drug treatment must take a wider, more preventative approach, identifying early on when families need help as well as protecting children from neglect and harm | NTA, UK
Psychiatrists document adverse effects of mephedrone
Psychiatrists in Scotland have published the first known case series documenting the adverse psychological effects of mephedrone | Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK
Teenage drinking and interethnic friendships
This report explores the links between young people's interethnic friendships and their drinking patterns and behaviours. Summary - Full report| Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK
Audio - Street homelessness and rough sleeping - Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick - Joseph Rowntree Professor of Housing Policy and Director of the Centre of Housing Policy at the University of York - describes the findings of her research into street homelessness and rough sleeping in England | IRISS, UK
Mental illness and drug abuse rife in homeless
Severe mental illness has a high prevalence in the homeless population, with particularly high levels of psychotic illness and substance dependence, as well as risk factors for suicide and violence, a new study has found | Irish Medical Times
HIV & AIDS in Ireland 2010
The purpose of this report is to present data on cases of HIV and AIDS that were reported to the HPSC during 2010 | Health Service Executive, Ireland
Medicine and the Epidemic of Incarceration in the United States
Locking up millions of people for drug-related crimes has failed as a public-safety strategy and has harmed public health in the communities to which these men and women return. A new evidence-based approach is desperately needed | New England Journal of Medicine, USA
The Global Commission Report on Drug Legalization
Setting the Record Straight | Of Substance Blog, ONDCP, USA
Dr. Nora D. Volkow Interview
Many of NIDA's top grantees studying the link between substance abuse and HIV/AIDS were interviewed at the International AIDS Society conference in Vienna, Austria in July 2010. Hear NIDA director Dr. Nora Volkow discuss their research | NIDA, USA
Inquiry into the Impact of Drug-related Offending on Female Prisoner Numbers
The Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee tabled its Interim Report of the Inquiry into the Impact of Drug-Related Offending on Female Prisoner Numbers on 6 October 2010. An electronic copy of the Final Report can be downloaded via the this link | Parliament of Victoria, Australia
Patterns of mephedrone, GHB, Ketamine and Rohypnol use among police detainees
Findings from the DUMA program - download | Australian Institute of Criminology
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