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Scotland’s recent anthrax outbreak from contaminated heroin has raised urgent questions about forfeiting essential public health measures, says Sara McGrail [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
David Gilliver hears about the Liverpool-based supported housing project providing intensive, round-the-clock support for families affected by substance use [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
The NTA’s Mark Gillyon tells David Gilliver about the thinking behind its new Commissioning for recovery guide [Drink and Drugs News, UK]
IDPC has produce this short guide to provide logistical information to NGOs and civil society actors planning to attend the 54th session of the CND in Vienna from 8th to 12th March 2010 [International Drug Policy Consortium]
Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse [Newsweek, USA]
In part one we heard about Kiri’s growing addiction to heroin. In part two we follow the paths that this addiction led her to take, despite her best efforts to get clean [Kiri Anne Sykes, Wired In]
What does it take to get a wave of energy to a point where it takes on its own momentum, swelling and ploughing across a rough ocean, gathering dynamism and visibility? I’m thinking the recovery movement here and I’m watching the wave as it grows. My surfboard is getting a dusting down [Peapod, Wired In]
Another message that was loud and clear to me is that the room had a high percentage of experts on recovery. People who experienced the pain, lost dignity, had broken families, stole to support a habit, attended treatment and eventually found recovery [Ken K, Wired In]
Well I’ve spent quite some time on here today, I’ve drank long and deep from this oasis of clear, cool, cleansing and sustaining water I know as Wired In and the shiny people that I share this watering hole with [Marcellos, Wired In]
Following the decision of Urdd Gobaith Cymru to allow alcohol to be sold on the Eisteddfod site for the first time in Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion in May 2010, an e-petition has been launched to ask the Welsh Assembly to consider only funding future Urdd Eisteddfodau on condition that alochol is not sold on the Eisteddfod site [Wynford Ellis Owen, UK]
A drugs advisory body has launched a petition against an annual Welsh language youth festival’s plan to sell drink to visitors for the first time [BBC, UK]
William talks about the need to maintain boundaries between treatment and mutual aid. He says there is a lot of ‘role definition’ to get worked out with those groups that stand between treatment and mutual aid [Film Exhange on Alcohol and Drugs, UK]
This new tobacco control strategy for England establishes a vision of eradicating tobacco harms and creating a smokefree future, so that we can support people to live healthier and longer lives [Department of Health, UK]
The health secretary, Andy Burnham, now favours extending the 2007 landmark law which banned smoking in pubs, workplaces and other enclosed places, to prevent non-smokers having to walk through clouds of secondhand smoke [Guardian, UK]
It’s chemically similar to illegal amphetamine and costs a fraction of the price of cocaine, but campaigners say mephedrone could pose even graver health risks [The Scotsman, UK]
As a result, substances that are useless — and sometimes worse — fill doctors’ prescription pads, not least in the field of psychiatric medicine, where whole categories of “disorder” have been dreamed up in order that they be medicated [Sunday Times, UK]
The Home Office Alcohol Strategy Unit are organising two free events in Brighton and London as the Partnership Support Programme concludes [Alcohol Policy UK]
Combined 2006 to 2008 data indicate that 3.7 million persons aged 12 or older living in poverty were in need of substance use treatment in the past year; of these, 17.9 percent received treatment at a specialty facility during this time period [SAMHSA, USA]
Between 1992 and 2007, the proportion of all adult female substance abuse treat ment admissions with primary alcohol abuse declined from 47.4 per cent to 33.4 percent [SAMHSA, USA]
In 2007, among non-Hispanic Black substance abuse treatment admissions aged 18 to 25, males were more likely than females to report marijuana as the primary substance of abuse (62.8 vs. 49.5 percent); however females were three times more likely than males to report smoked cocaine as the primary substance of abuse (12.6 vs. 4.2 percent) [SAMHSA, USA]
