About Daily Dose

1. Aims and objectives
Daily Dose, www.dailydose.net, launched in January 2001 by Professor David Clark, is a unique information and education portal on substance use.

It provides links to a range of content from around the world that focuses primarily on the prevention, management and overcoming of drug and alcohol use problems. Daily Dose is part of the Wired In initiative.

By providing daily access to a wide range of content from around the world, we aim to inform and educate: specialist and non-specialist workers, volunteers, and trainees; commissioners and policy makers; academics and researchers; users/drinkers and ex-users/ex-drinkers; family members, friends and carers; and anyone else interested in or the substance use field.

Our objectives are to:

• keep our readers abreast of the most recent developments and news,
• help enhance awareness and understanding of key issues,
• facilitate professional and personal development,
• help latest developments in research impact on practice and policy,
• save people time and effort, and reduce information overload,
• help the voice of those affected by substance use influence practice and policy,
• reduce stigma, prejudice and discrimination in the field and in wider society.

Our team prides itself on its independence and we try to be objective as possible in selecting material to be linked to from Daily Dose.

2. Background
Daily Dose provides links to the most important material from governments, specialist organisations, NGOs, researchers, the popular media, and ‘voices’ in the community, from around the world.

It provides readers with ready access to key news, professional reports, articles, stories, research, blogs, podcasts, film and audio material, education and training material, and information about funding, conferences and other events.

Daily Dose provides a unique range of free services:

• Daily Doses, five times a week
• A Weekly Dose, highlighting the more important articles of the week
• A daily and weekly subscription service that delivers Daily Dose to your Inbox
• An archive for all Daily and Weekly Doses, as well as for professional reports and a wide range of other material (this archive extends back to the beginning of 2002).

In addition to site visitors, Daily Dose has over 6,000 daily subscribers and 1,700 subscribers to Weekly Dose.

For a number of years, Daily Dose has been top of millions of Google listings when searching for “Daily Dose”, demonstrating an enduring quality and strength of brand.

The site is linked to by more than 150 other web sites, many of them belonging to major international organisations (e.g. World Health Organisation, United Nations), government departments and NGOs.