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Can we create a fairer adult social care system? The recent Green Paper shows that the Government has moved on from previous statements on adult social care [Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK]
The Conservative party’s announcement this week that “if you can work, you should work” is the latest indication of the trend towards dealing more harshly with drug and alcohol users who receive welfare payments [Release, UK]
The latest statistics for Substance Misuse in Wales produced by the Welsh Assembly Government Department for Social Justice and Local Government, were released on 7 October 2009 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority [Welsh Assembly Government, UK]
There is a great danger that the pressure on budgets will lead to short-term decision-making where the usual suspects – such as mental health services – get cut, instead of the focus being put on driving efficiencies [Guardian, UK]
As part of the NTA ‘Harm Reduction Works Campaign’ Exchange Supplies have developed an online ‘coverage calculator’ to help estimate the extent to which the number of syringes being distributed to illicit drug injectors [Harm Reduction Works, UK]
Justice Secretary Jack Straw has given a speech at the Prison Governors Association annual conference [Ministry of Justice, UK]
What an evening! A truly special moment in time – marching for Recovery, for understanding and for hope. We have had a huge response to our programme, highlighting what was a memorable night [George, Wired In]
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve found myself seething at some of the stuff in the media recently… So, I did something about it and wrote to an MSP and blow me down, she met with me and I told her my story [Noni, Wired In]
An Interview with Phillip Valentine [Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center, USA]
The UN Human Rights Council, the highest political body in the UN dealing specifically with human rights, has closed its twelfth regular session having adopted two resolutions of considerable importance to harm reduction [International Harm Reduction Association]
The latest update. September 2009 [SMMGP, UK]
Commenting on Tory proposals [Alcohol Concern, UK]
Higher taxes would be targeted at ‘cheap drinks that fuel anti-social behaviour’, shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling announced at yesterday’s Conservative party conference [Alcohol Policy UK]
More than three million children live in households where at least one of the parents is a binge drinker, a shock survey showed last night [Daily Mail, UK]
Robbie Williams has claimed that he was 24 hours from death after taking a cocktail of prescription pills at the height of his drug addiction [Telegraph, UK]
Alcohol expectancies are strong concurrent predictors of alcohol use and problems, but the current study addressed their unique power to predict from adolescence to midlife [Oxford Journals, UK]
This Perspective introduces a new series in PLoS Medicine on mental health disorders in low- and middle-income countries that reviews the evidence for packages of care for ADHD, alcohol misuse disorders, dementia, depression, epilepsy, and schizophrenia [PLoS Medicine]
For alcohol risk in primary health care: An experience in Brazil [Alcohol Reports Blogspot, UK]
Among U.S. service members completing Pre-Deployment Health Assessment (PreDHA) and deployed to Afghanistan, 2007: a retrospective cohort study [BMC Public Health, UK]
Russian teenagers will be tested for drugs during their regular medical examinations at school, Russia’s anti-narcotics agency chief said Wednesday [Independent, UK]
