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North Yorkshire woman ‘took drug in two days before death’ [Guardian, UK]
The Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) invites members of the public to its open meeting on Monday 29 March 2010. There will be an opportunity for attendees to provide feedback to the ACMD and participate in a question and answer session [Home Office, UK]
The proposed policies serve the industry’s interests at the expense of public health by attempting to enshrine ‘active participation of all levels of the beverage alcohol industry as a key partner in the policy formulation and implementation process’ [Addiction, UK]
So the National Needle Exchange Forum took place on the 19th March in Southampton. Did you attend? No? Well just for you (no one else, just you, don’t tell the others) here is a review of the days events, and believe me it was a great day [Injecting Advice, UK]
Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith’s description of methadone as “a fatalistic, short-term, and damaging approach to drug and alcohol addiction” signalled a growing mistrust of the pragmatic harm reduction measures introduced by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Paul Hayes and Annette Dale-Perera look back at the politics of treatment [Druglink, UK]
Data from largest alcohol treatment trial in Britain is used to address possibly the most contentious issue in the field – whether services should offer moderation as well as abstinence goals to dependent clients [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
What’s ‘meow meow’ actually like? Dr Max Pemberton found out for himself [Telegraph, UK]
Our expert panel discusses the drug mephedrone, its effects and the likelihood of its prohibition, in a special edition of our daily news audio show with Jon Dennis [Guardian, UK]
Some 415 newly identified drugs, untested by medical science, are being sold to young people [Independent, UK]
Chaired by journalist and author Simon Jenkins, this seminar examined how new recovery-based models of drug and alcohol treatment could give greater power and resources to individuals with more involvement of family and community [Institute for Public Policy Research, UK]
Attempting to scare teenagers about the dangers of drugs is pointless: their brains are wired up to take risks [Times, UK]
Rehab Online is a directory of residential rehabilitation services for adult drug and/or alcohol misusers in England and Wales. It will give you information about these services, whether you are a member of the public, a professional or a service user [NTA, UK]
Survey shows that patients face long waits for psychological ‘talking’ treatments, with children worse off than adults [Observer, UK]
The British government’s official drug advisers are expected to recommend that it be banned, but some drugs policy experts say criminalisation could do more harm than good. Now New Scientist cuts through the hype. [New Scientist, UK]
But it is perhaps not surprising that having discovered the latest ‘new drug scare’, the media should have got many aspects of the story wrong either because it didn’t fit what they wanted to write or because one piece of misinformation is picked up and repeated time and again until is becomes enshrined in ‘the facts’ [Druglink, UK]
In this special online-only dossier, we bring together some of our key investigations and feature stories on cocaine, including the first reporting of a two-tier market in the drug and the spread of its use to blue collar workers [Drugscope, UK]
Policy Exchange has recently conducted one of the largest independent surveys of prisoners ever undertaken in England and Wales… We discovered that up to 30,000 prisoners (35% of the total population) at any one time could be taking drugs, with 85% of prisoners confirming that they could get hold of illicit substances [Guardian, UK]
Tinkering at the legislative edges every time a new drug emerges, or simply appearing blind when new programmes and potential new solutions are tried, is no longer acceptable [Herald Scotland, UK]
Alcohol is a factor in 35% of all A&E cases and up to 70% at the weekend, placing a huge burden on the health service [Guardian, UK]
One unintended consequence of current medicines legislation is to leave distributors of ‘legal highs’ unable to disclose the true purpose of their product. General commonsense precautions that apply to any psychoactive drug cannot be given without risking prosecution. The dilemma is what to do between the appearance of a problem, risk assessment and the inevitable but uncertain legislative response [Addiction Editorial, UK]
