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The Department of Health has launched a review of the million-plus patients addicted to prescribed drugs in the UK in a tacit admission that attempts to control the problem over the last two decades have failed [Independent, UK]
Johnson faces ‘collective action’ threat from advisers as two resign in protest [Guardian, UK]
That is also why it is such a disgrace that Alan Johnson, the home secretary, sacked him late yesterday afternoon for having the temerity to point out some obvious truths about the government’s populist and unthinking handling of the issue [Guardian Editorial, UK]
Targeting enforcement to reduce individual and community harm is the premise of this report from a UK drug policy think tank, one which seems widely understood, though in some quarters, deeply contested [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Patients’ lives put at risk by tactics used against those who highlight safety fears [Independent on Sunday, UK]
It’s fiendishly clever and remarkably cheap and If it wasn’t for the fact that I didn’t think of it first, I’d be marketing it as a highly effective way of spreading the recovery bug. We need a pandemic of recovery and I think we can see the signs in the UK that it’s on its way [Androcles, Wired In]
UK drugs policy is in chaos and it’s all the fault of politicians playing to the media instead of making policy based on fact [UKCIA, UK]
More from Bruce Alexander talk {3’41”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
In dismissing David Nutt, its chief drugs adviser, the government has bowed to public mood [Observer Editorial, UK]
It is hard not to suspect that Professor Nutt’s real crime in the eyes of the Government was not his interference in politics but the fact that his words embarrassed ministers [Independent, UK]
Mass walkout threatened as axed adviser David Nutt accuses Gordon Brown of being first prime minister to go against advice of his scientific panel [Observer, UK]
Growing fury at ‘disgraceful’ decision that undermines relations between politicians and scientists [Independent on Sunday, UK]
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, chief executive of the Medical Research Council, said scientists must be allowed to give “unfettered advice without the fear of reprisal” [Sunday Times, UK]
Policy in the area has been a political battlefield for at least the last 40 years, and it shows no signs of getting any simpler [Guardian, UK]
By keeping cannabis as a class B drug, it’s possible that, far from deterring its use, we actually increase its cachet [David Nutt, Guardian, UK]
“It is likely that eliminating the cheapest alcohol sales by minimum pricing will result in reduced overall consumption by this group of drinkers with a fairly immediate reduction in serious alcohol-related illnesses in our community” [Sunday Herald, UK]
The number of prescriptions issued to children for anti-depressants, anti-psychotic drugs and attention deficit disorder medication has rocketed [Guardian, UK]
The IoS celebrates the legions of young and old across the nation who lend a hand to others [Independent on Sunday, UK]
As part of a pilot study into methods for addressing these questions, newspaper and television coverage of alcohol-related stories were analysed to identify how those stories were contextualised, which sources were quoted, what images accompanied alcohol-related news stories and so forth [Alcohol and Education Research Council, UK]
It is no longer seen as ‘‘safe’‘ for families to allow their teenagers an occasional drink [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
