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A new version of the book, ‘Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity’, provides the most compelling case yet for fiscal and regulatory measures to reduce the harm caused by alcohol and the importance of not allowing the alcohol industry to set the agenda and propose largely ineffective policies that rely on provision of information alone [Addiction Editorial, UK]
More drugs panic this week with the Mcat scare hitting the tabloids in traditional style. Rather less publicity was given to the government’s refusal – and the reasons for that refusal – to limit alcohol promotion which would have gone a long way to reducing the huge harm that drug causes [UKCIA, UK]
Overall, the strongest, most cost-effective strategies include taxation that increases prices, restrictions on the physical availability of alcohol, drink-driving countermeasures, brief interventions with at risk drinkers and treatment of drinkers with alcohol dependence [Addiction Abstract, UK]
As part of the Narrative Research Project we interviewed 64 people across Scotland about their experience of recovery from long term mental health problems. From those interviews SRN worked with participants to create anonymous stories which we have then shared in the booklet Journeys of Recovery (10.39 MB) and via the website [Scottish Recovery Network]
Road safety charity Brake and Direct Line today reveal an overwhelming cry from the British public for Government action to curb the menace of drink and drug driving [Brake, UK]
The Basement Project is an independent self-help organisation, based in Halifax, West Yorkshire that offers support and inspiration to those people who are involved with alcohol and / or substance misuse, the opportunity of a new sustained abstinent lifestyle [The Basement Project, UK]
Compelling evidence demonstrates that services can deliver better outcomes if shaped by users themselves. In particular evidence from adult social care services shows that individual budgets – schemes for self-directed support, centred on personal budgets – show improved outcomes [RSA, UK]
The RSA launches Citizen Power: Peterborough, an innovative partnership that aims to create active citizenship within Peterborough so that local people feel engaged with their community and can help to shape the city in which they live [RSA, UK]
Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments you left on my last post. I have dipped in to read them, though it’s been a hectic ten days since I last wrote [Alcoholic Daze, UK]
They are behind a string of celebrity deaths. But these legal drugs also blight thousands of more ordinary lives [Independent, UK]
Even the limited evaluations of the drugs strategy that have been done have been suppressed – like the value for money study of the last ten year drugs strategy that Transform recently prised from the fingers of the Home Office only after a three year Freedom of Information battle [Transform Drug Policy Foundation, UK]
An uncorrected transcript of evidence [Committee of Public Accounts, Parliament, UK]
Whichever way you look at it, the Government’s increasing reliance on methadone to treat heroin addicts involves moral issues. Predominant among these is that the State is in effect cast in the role of drug dealer — conceivably for as long as the addicts live [[Times, UK]
It is given to half the country’s estimated 300,000 heroin addicts while parliamentary answers have revealed that 65,000 prisoners were prescribed it in the past year, including nearly 20,000 on a maintenance programme which can last years — an annual rise of 57 per cent [Times, UK]
Amid calls from headteachers and drug campaigners for an instant ban, the Home Office drugs minister, Alan Campbell, said he would take “immediate action” after advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), which is due at the end of this month [Guardian, UK]
Inexcess TV were fortunate to be invited to the UK launch of SoberLink in Exeter. Championing the right of all people who are alcohol dependent to access the best possible care the SoberLink launch was timely following Proffessor Nutt and others talking about an alcohol ”timebomb” in the UK [Inexcess TV, UK]
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Scottish Ministers asked Young Scot to deliver a Youth Commission on Alcohol, one of the actions identified in Changing Scotland’s Relationship with Alcohol: A Framework for Action published by the Scottish Government in March 2009. The brief was to support young people to make suggestions for policy and action to change Scotland’s culture in relation to alcohol [Young Scot, UK]
After a range of meetings with high profile industry experts, five intense residentials and two international study visits, the ground-breaking Youth Commission on Alcohol has come to an end {long download} [Young Scot, UK]
A recent scientific paper appearing in the journal Addiction has focused on the lack of scientific evidence for the effectiveness of Needle and Syringe Programmes (NSPs), one of the primary aspects of harm reduction [Release, UK]
