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Bizarrely, it’s in a back room in Tottenham – at least, the bit that relates to evaluating interventions. For 10 years Drug and Alcohol Findings has been collecting, analysing and disseminating evaluation research. Here’s how it started, and how it became the custodian of the largest working drug and alcohol library in Britain [Drug & Alcohol Findings, UK]
A rising tide of super-cheap supermarket alcohol deals is contributing to the big increase in alcohol-related harm in the North West, according to a mystery shopper survey conducted by North West wellbeing and health campaigners, Our Life [Our Life, UK]
In response to the evidence, Zurich Community Trust (ZCT) and Addaction established a partnership to develop an innovative project called Breaking the Cycle (BtC), to support and empower families where parents have substance misuse issues to improve their family functioning and family life and to provide an environment where their children can thrive [Addaction, UK]
Both tackling smoking during pregnancy and reducing infants’ exposure to tobacco smoke in the postnatal environment may help to reduce stillbirths and infant deaths overall and to reduce the socioeconomic inequalities in stillbirths and infant deaths perhaps by as much as 30-40%. However, action on smoking on its own is unlikely to be sufficient and other measures to improve the social circumstances, social support, and health of
mothers and infants are needed [British Medical Journal, UK]
Akmal Shaikh’s family and lawyer have argued that he is mentally ill… According to Hong Kong and international media, Shaikh had been tricked by a criminal gang in Poland, where he had been living. Please send message using provided form [Amnesty International UK]
During a presession telephone call, ask your client to keep track of what is happening in his life that he wants to have continued. During the first meeting with the client, be sure to find out about the details of those things that are worth continuing [David Clark, Wired In]
The East of England has released its second regional alcohol newsletter, highlighting key news, developments and best practice in the region [Alcohol Policy UK]
Growing up in a household with a family of drinkers, Richard recently found his own drinking slipping out of control {3’48”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
Paul Hayes says its our role to get alongside communities rather than to persuade them of the value of drug treatment. He suggests it would be easier to persuade ordinary people than Fleet St Editors {3’10”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
This presentation focuses on how Health in Mind and Penumbra have developed and delivered a training infrastructure that supports values based and recovery focussed mental health practice, where the ultimate aim is to improve peoples’ experience of using mental health services [Scottish Recovery Network, UK]
What impact is the current recession having on disadvantaged communities and what can we learn from evidence from previous recessions? [Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK]
Obama’s decision not to prosecute medical marijuana users and sellers suggests the war on drugs is ending [Guardian, UK]
The courts reject medical defences, James Welch tells Discogsfred, even when the defendant suffers chronic pain [Guardian, UK]
An increase in prescriptions for anti-depressants is due to doctors giving drugs to the same people for longer periods of time, a study has found [BBC, UK]
HCLU and the Danish Street Lawyers present you their new short movie about the introduction of heroin maintenance to Denmark [Drug Reporter, Hungary]
Australian experts have called for the removal of barriers that prevent the drug naloxone from being easily available for peer administration after heroin overdose [Psychiatry Update, Australia]
I have committed to not drinking for a year and doing observational & psychological research into youth behaviour to find a viable alternative to problematic youth drinking [Hello Sunday Morning, Australia]
Afghanistan is responsible for more than 90 per cent of the world’s opium poppy cultivation and, every year, around 375 tons of Afghan heroin enter the global market [United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]
A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The transnational threat of Afghan opium [UNODC]
He was bright and charming, with a gift for writing and a talent for water polo. But then he found a new interest – crystal meth. In this heartbreakingly frank account, David Sheff recounts the horror and helplessness of watching his teenage boy destroy himself – and the sense of hope a parent never loses [Observer, UK]
