Reports: September |
Rough sleepers helped to rebuild their lives with new strategy backed by £2bn government support
Government today publishes landmark £2 billion Rough Sleeping Strategy to drive forward manifesto commitment to end rough sleeping for good | Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, and Eddie Hughes MP, UK
ASH guidance on developing school policies on vaping (PDF)
This guidance is for Designated Safeguarding Leads, PSHE leads and others developing school policies on vaping, in the context of the far greater risk from smoking | ASH, UK
Alcohol Everywhere A Report by the Alcohol Action Group (PDF)
Scottish Families Alcohol Action Group designed a survey to get a better idea of how widely spread alcohol messages are in our homes, communities, online spaces, and other parts of everyday life. The survey was open for views in January/February 2021 and then again in September/October 2021. We are now comparing the findings and sharing them to help raise awareness and contribute towards creating positive actions that will reduce alcohol harm in Scotland | SFAD, UK
County Lines: Breaking the Cycle
Our latest report into county lines calls for a new approach to ensure children who may be involved in county lines drug dealing are kept safe and away from the criminals exploiting them | Crest Advisory, UK
New report says it’s time to raise the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21 years
Report by Royal College of Physicians of Ireland’s Policy Group on Tobacco says raising the age to 21 years is fundamental to achieving Tobacco Free Ireland targets | RCPI, Ireland
Tobacco Harm Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
By global comparisons, smoking prevalence is relatively low across the continent of Africa. Yet by 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) projects the total number of tobacco users in Africa will increase to 62m, of whom 51m will be smoking combustible tobacco... Appropriate, accessible and affordable safer nicotine products (SNP), supported by product regulation, could help create a smoke-free Africa and, unlike most tobacco control interventions, this can be achieved at minimal cost to governments | GSTHR, UK
Measuring the Impact of Drug-Impaired Driving: Recommendations for National Indicators
Recommends 34 indicators for enhancing and standardizing the collection of drug-impaired driving data across Canada to help reduce injuries and fatalities. The report also explores considerations for implementing the recommendations, including the need for systematic and standardized methods, developing a joint approach, increasing knowledge and efficiencies through data sharing, filling the gaps, and increasing diversity, as well as the financial costs and benefits of investment to implement the recommendations | CCSA, Canada
National naloxone programme Scotland - Quarterly monitoring bulletin
During 2021/22 Quarter 4 (1 January 2022 to 31 March 2022) 6,552 Take-Home Naloxone (THN) kits were issued | Public Health Scotland, UK
Alcohol and Cancer Risks A Guide for Health Professionals: September 2022 update
Drinking alcohol is a risk factor for several cancers. This guide updates previous guidance from SHAAP to summarise for health professionals the links between alcohol consumption and cancers. The guide uses the latest data* so that health professionals can use opportunities in their work to intervene to reduce risks | SHAAP, UK
Death Penalty For Drug Offences: Global Overview 2021
Harm Reduction International has monitored the use of the death penalty for drug offences worldwide since our first ground-breaking publication on this issue in 2007. This report, our eleventh on the subject, continues our work of providing regular updates on legislative, policy and practical developments related to the use of capital punishment for drug offences, a practice which is a clear violation of international law | HRI, UK
Prison population: substance use and wider support needs
This study used a literature review, mapping exercise and interviews to assess the wider support needs of Scotland's prison population relating to substance use. The findings inform a range of recommendations, which are proposed to address these needs | Scottish Government, UK
Vaping products - tightening rules on advertising and promoting: consultation analysis
EKOS was commissioned to undertake an independent analysis of responses to tightening rules on advertising and vaping products. The report presents the findings from the public consultation and explains the methodology that was used to analyse responses | Scottish Government, UK
National drug and alcohol treatment waiting times
During the quarter, 11,316 referrals were made to community-based specialist drug and alcohol treatment services: 6,330 (56%) were for problematic use of alcohol, 3,786 (33%) for problematic use of drugs, and 1,200 (11%) for both alcohol and drugs (co-dependency) | Public Health Scotland, UK
Interim monitoring report on statutory funded residential rehabilitation placements
This is the fourth report on Residential Rehabilitation within the Monitoring and Evaluation Programme led by Public Health Scotland. The report presents information on the number of Alcohol and Drug Partnership statutory funded placements into residential rehabilitation, with estimated costs, that were approved between 01 April 2021 and 30 June 2022 | Public Health Scotland, UK
Nicotine vaping in England: 2022 evidence update
The final annual update in the current series of evidence reviews about the health harms of vaping, by leading independent tobacco experts | OHID, UK
Ending the exclusion: Care, treatment and support for people with mental ill health and problem substance use in Scotland (PDF)
It is estimated that alcohol or drug misuse was a factor in something between 48% and 56% of all suicides between 2008 and 2018 in Scotland. Our report looks at the experience of people who are living with both mental ill health and problematic drug or/and alcohol use. Whether people use alcohol and or drugs to alleviate their mental ill health, or whether mental illness becomes a consequence of alcohol and or drug use, varies | Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, UK
What is snus and how is it used?
Snus is an oral tobacco product that has been used for more than 300 years. Named after the Swedish word for snuff, snus is made from ground tobacco leaves that are mixed with salt and water | GSTHR, UK