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Release, and other leading drug organisations including IHRA and Transform, have sent a public letter to the Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon calling for an emergency public health plan to be initiated [Release, UK]
The chance to recover through abstinence-based residential programmes should be offered in jail – the place where most addicts go sooner or later [Mark Johnson, Guardian, UK]
This is a website run by independent academics and healthcare professionals aimed at raising the awareness and profile of the use of take-home naloxone as a mechanism for reducing drug-related death, and to provide a forum for discussing innovation, training and practice developments [take-home naloxone, UK]
Drug treatment, reintegration and recovery in the community and prisons: a guide for drug partnerships [National Treatment Agency, UK]
Justice minister Maria Eagle backs one-stop shop in Halifax that is helping women who have been in prison to get back on their feet and to keep from reoffending [Guardian, UK]
I went to the job centre yesterday and signed off, I had been claiming Incapacity Benefit for more than 5 years. It was a wonderful feeling and another goal I have achieved that I thought would take me at least another 12 months [Carl C, Wired In]
Alan Johnson is leading for the Government in trying to convince us that it is curbing the worst excesses of alcohol retailers. Apart from the fact that the Government has failed to take on the drinks industry with any degree of principle, Alan Johnson’s criticism of some retailers as irresponsible, smacks of hypocrisy of the highest order [Transform Drug Policy Foundation, UK]
Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, made a written ministerial statement on the Government’s response to the recent consultation on the new code of practice for alcohol retailers [UK Government]
A ban on irresponsible promotions including “all you can drink for £10” deals plus a compulsory requirement to check under 18s for ID are among the final conditions of a proposed mandatory code for alcohol retailers, Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced [Home Office, UK]
And the result is that our society is today being swamped as never before by ‘a torrent of gin and beer’ — as well as cut-price vodka, lager, rum and alcopops. Yet the politicians, who have presided over this social catastrophe, remain utterly supine in the face of this vast, destructive commercial monolith [Professor Roger Williams, Daily Mail, UK]
A new code will ban pubs and clubs from running irresponsible drinks promotions [Independent, UK]
Blair wooed young voters with liberal drinking laws. Now Brown is failing to clear up the mess [Times, UK]
Changes to licensing were supposed to create a civilised café culture — but the Government still can’t stop us boozing [Times, UK]
We need your help to create a discussion in London that covers the views of London’s diverse communities about alcohol, particularly about attitudes towards alcohol and what support communities need to address the problems its causes [London Drink Debate, UK]
The public spending squeeze means there’s never been a better time for recovery-oriented treatment, says Peter Martin. Sara McGrail warns against sweeping away effective interventions [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) has published a position statement on the impact of the life style factors obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption on natural and medically assisted reproduction [Medical News Today, UK]
But now ecstasy seems to be disappearing from the streets. Ed Davey reports on how changes in supply half way around the world are affecting drug use in the UK [BBC, UK]
There is a worrying lack of safety data on electronic cigarettes, despite their growing popularity with the public, two leading Greek researchers have warned [BBC, UK]
Volume 1, Issue 1 [Office of National Drug Control Policy, USA]
Alcohol has become the treatment of choice for an unfortunate number of Australian troops left traumatised by their service in East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq [The Australian]
