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We've migrated to a more flexible system for the running of Daily Dose but you can still get to the 7 years worth of archived content if you need to..
May 2009 edition, lead article ‘Thoughts on recovery: a personal view’ by Peter McDermott [SMMGP, UK]
Many law enforcement managers and analysts have come to the conclusion that strong action against drug production, distribution and use cannot be successful in eradicating drug markets, and that new strategies and approaches are needed [International Drug Policy Consortium]
Within the context of the November referendum, this briefing paper aims to relate lessons learned by the incremental implementation of the Four Pillar Policy in Switzerland [International Drug Policy Consortium]
DDN reports from IHRA’s 20th international conference {long download} [Drink and Drug News, UK]
Does this Government have any coherent policies at all? Last year, with great hullabaloo, it passed the Intoxicating Liquor Act that was designed to protect society from the malign effects of alcohol abuse [Irish Times]
You’re doing what I used to do. Things would be going well and I would be sitting there waiting for the BANG… and my god it always happened. I couldn’t plan for the next day, never mind the next hour or next five minutes… [Linda Blog, Wired In]
The Home Office tells me that a “data lag” explains why ministers continue to quote hopelessly out-of-date figures to prove they are winning the war on drugs [Mark Easton’s UK, BBC]
Robin Davidson describes the different paths the alcohol field and the drugs field have taken [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
As I noted at the end of last week NICE are consulting on evidence papers around school based efforts to prevent young people from smoking [Drug Education News, UK]
The second video in our series to promote the BMJ’s online archive now being fully searchable back to 1840 examines the development of evidence based medicine and clinical trials [British Medical Journal, UK]
Findings of a process evaluation and cost effectiveness analysis of the three Mandatory Drug Testing of Arrestees pilot schemes in Scotland [Scottish Government, UK]
The NACD undertook this study to explore female and male problematic drug-using sex workers’ lived experience of risk, and how the risk environment can mediate the individual’s capacity to reduce the risk of harm [National Advisory Committee on Drugs, Ireland]
It was the late 1980s, and the “Decade of the Brain,” sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Library of Congress, was still a few years away [Addiction Inbox, USA]
Scientists see vast clinical potential of newly identified gene targets [NIDA, USA]
In response to recent concerns raised in the media about administering abused drugs to human subjects who are addicted (VA Researchers Gave Morphine to Addicts in Study, 5/5/09), I invite you to consider the following [Nora Volkow, Director, NIDA, USA]
Covers the latest Australian news and research on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs {long download} [Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Australia]
People in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol or other drugs face widespread stigma and discrimination, according to a groundbreaking, national survey released today [Join Together, USA]
