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A
Practical Guide for Dealing with Alcohol Related Problems:
What You Need to Know |
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The aim of this Guidance is to outline the
tools and powers available to practitioners and the key legislative
provisions to tackle alcohol misuse strategically, signposting
as necessary to more detailed guidance, which already exists.
28-page PDF [Home Office, UK] |
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Tougher
Powers to Tackle Teen Drinkers |
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Tougher police powers and a call for parents
and industry to play their part to prevent young people drinking
and to reduce the damage caused by alcohol to individuals and
communities were outlined today by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith
[Home Office, UK] |
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Home
Secretary's speech on underage drinking |
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This is the full text of the Home Secretary's
speech of 6 February 2008 to police, local authorities, and members
of the alcohol brewing and retail industries discussing tough
new measures designed to tackle teenage drinking. 14-page PDF
[Home Office, UK] |
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Smith
outlines action on UK's drink problem |
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Home secretary addresses conference on alcohol
abuse - VIDEO [Guardian, UK] |
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Taking
booze away won’t reduce underage drinking |
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Today’s speech by Home Secretary Jacqui
Smith simply re-states existing powers of the police which have
limited impact on reducing under-age drinking, says [Addaction,
UK] |
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Tories
attack government's "half-baked" alcohol strategy |
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The Conservatives have dismissed government
proposals to tackle underage teenage drinking in the streets
as "another half-baked announcement designed to grab a headline" [Guardian,
UK] |
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PQ
on Alcohol Education |
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Jim Knight: Alcohol education should be delivered
(along with other drug education) through well planned personal,
social, health and economic education (PSHE). But as he (and
we) know PSHE isn’t a statutory subject and that makes
it vulnerable when schools are looking to free up time [Drug
Education News, UK] |
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Alcohol
Labelling Bill - amendment |
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The Bill would
require alcoholic drinks to be labelled with the following warning:
GOVERNMENT WARNING: Avoid alcohol if pregnant or trying to conceive
[Parliament, UK] |
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ServeWise
and City & Guilds announce partnership for new qualifications |
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ServeWise encourages best practice in licensed
premises and contributes to culture change in Scotland’s
drinking patterns [Alcohol Focus Scotland, UK] |
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Thirst
for life |
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Tackling Today’s Drink Culture thirst
for life will help you make a difference, whether you join thousands
of others who go alcohol-free over the traditional Lent period
(starts Feb 6th) or do your own 40 days some other time [Thirst
for Life, UK] |
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An
unhealthy debate on cannabis |
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It is about time that policy makers woke up
to the fact that a single mechanism linking damage to health
with criminal punishment, as enshrined in the Misuse of Drugs
Act, is entirely illogical [Deborah Orr, blog, Open House, Independent,
UK] |
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“Which
Kind of Paddy?” |
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This survey reviews the literature within a
number of cognate disciplines – history, sociology, anthropology – on
alcohol and the Irish. 30-page PDF [Geary Institute, Ireland] |
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We
can't win drug war with just police: Forum |
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A United Nations forum on drug policy yesterday
agreed that "over-reliance on law enforcement" causes
deaths, fuels crime and unfairly targets "poor people of
colour." [The Province, Canada] |
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Facing
Budget Cuts, ONDCP Refocuses Media Campaign |
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With federal research showing that its anti-drug
media campaign isn't working with kids, and Congress calling
for major cuts in the program, the White House Office of National
Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has unveiled a more modest effort
that focuses on an emerging threat -- prescription-drug abuse
-- and appeals to parents rather than youth [Join Together, USA] |
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Community
Advocacy Groups Funded to Advance Tobacco and Other Public
Health Policies |
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Almost $600,000 in new grants to support policies
aimed at decreasing tobacco use and exposure and addressing other
public health problems [Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, USA] |
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Grant
Applications for Expanding the Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity
of “Treatment Drug Courts” |
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration is accepting applications to expand and/or enhance
substance abuse treatment services to “problem-solving” courts
that use the treatment drug court model in order to provide alcohol
and drug treatment, recovery support services supporting substance
abuse treatment, screening, assessment, case management, and
program coordination to defendants/offenders [SAMHSA, USA] |
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2008
Elections Offer Special Opportunity for Recovery Advocates |
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The Whole Health Campaign is reaching out to
candidates, health policy advisors, and party delegates to promote
the following three points ... [Addiction and Recovery News,
USA] |
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Groups
seek end to needle-exchange ban |
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Seeking bold action to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic
among black Americans, the NAACP, the National Urban League and
other groups Thursday urged Congress to repeal a 20-year-old
ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs [Syracuse,
USA] |
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Director
of National Intelligence Highlights Increased Cocaine Trafficking
Through Venezuela |
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Venezuela is serving as an increasingly frequent
transit zone for drug traffickers to ship Colombian cocaine,
undermining counter-narcotics efforts in neighboring countries,
the top U.S. intelligence official said [Pushing Back, ONDCP,
USA] |
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The
Market for Amphetamine-type Stimulants and Their Precursors
in Oceania |
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This study examines the market for amphetamine-type
stimulants (ATS) in Oceania including Australia, New Zealand,
and the Pacific Islands, and the involvement of criminal organisations
in that market. 149-page PDF [Australian Government] |
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New
dual diagnosis journal |
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Mental Health and Substance Use: dual diagnosis,
Volume 1 Issue 1 2008 [informaworld] |
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Annual
statement of government intentions |
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Chapter 2.2 Reducing Harm from Alcohol. 64-page
PDF [The Hon John Brumby MP Premier of Victoria, Australia] |
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UNODC
anticipates another large opium crop in Afghanistan in 2008 |
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The opium poppy seedlings are still under the
ground or snow in most parts of Afghanistan, but the UNODC Opium
Winter Rapid Assessment Survey, released today, broadly anticipates
what can be expected when they bloom this spring [UNODC] |
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Afghanistan
- Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey |
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These are order of magnitude figures – the actual harvest
will depend on the effectiveness of eradication. The volume of
opium production (and eventually heroin) will further depend
on the yield, which last year was at a record level. Based on
this evidence there is a good chance that the high-water mark
reached in 2007 will begin to recede. 46-page PDF [UNODC] |
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Afghanistan:
economic incentives and development initiatives to reduce opium
production |
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This report is about how to progressively reduce over time
Afghanistan’s dependence on opium – currently the
country’s leading economic activity – by development
initiatives and shifting economic incentives toward sustainable
legal livelihoods. 126-page PDF [Department for International
Development, UK and the World Bank] |
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