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WEEKLY DOSE - Week ending 18th May 2008

 

 
 
The Wired In 'Way Forward'
Please read our strategy and tell us what you think. And sign up to our new Recovery Movement. The people affected by substance use problems need you! Let's make a difference together!! [the prof speaks out]
 
New member of Wired In Advisory Board: William L White
William L White is one of the leaders of the Recovery Movement in America - he has written the two best books I have read in this field [the prof speaks out]
 
Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Guidelines
207-page PDF [Sentencing Guidelines Council, UK]
 
Inspecting the field - Harm Reduction and Commissioning Systems
Last week the Healthcare Commission and the NTA published their penultimate improvement review. The review gives us some interesting information about the maturity of our commissioning systems and the effectiveness of harm reduction implementation and planning, but does the inspection report raise more questions than it answers? [Sara McGrail, UK]
 
Community leadership approaches to tackling street crime
A review of whether the approaches taken to tackling street crime by a social enterprise in Manchester might be relevant to similar neighbourhoods in other areas. 50-page PDF [JRF, UK]
 
Welsh Assembly Government’s Substance Misuse Strategy for Wales 2008-2018 consultation
A 5-page PDF response from [UKDPC]
 
Excellence in Tobacco Control
10 high impact changes to achieve tobacco control. 80-page PDF [DoH, UK]
 
Opening Day in Barcelona
Video - This widespread, systemic abuse of human rights is especially shocking, because drug users include people who are the most vulnerable, most marginal in society [Hungarian Civil Liberties Union]
 
Global State of Harm Reduction 2008
Mapping the response to drug-related HIV and hepatitis C epidemics. Full report 6MB PDF [IHRA]
 
HRB reports latest trends in treated drug use across Ireland
A total of 68,754 cases aged between 15 and 64 years were treated for problem drug use in Ireland between 2001 and 2006. 40-page PDF full report [National Documentation Centre, Ireland]
 
Service Provision for Detainees with Problematic Drug and Alcohol Use in Police Detention
A Comparative Study of Selected Countries in the European Union. 28-page PDF [HEUNI]
 
   
   

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