|
|
Daily
Dose sponsorship details |
|
|
WIRED is
appealing for sponsors whose support is absolutely essential
for the continued publication of Daily Dose [Editor] |
|
|
|
|
|
Get
treatment or lose benefit, drug users told |
|
|
Thousands of problem drug users will face losing
welfare benefit payments for up to six months if they repeatedly
fail to participate in drug treatment programmes under "three
strikes and you're out" proposals ... the move is a central
feature of the 10-year drug strategy to be unveiled today [Guardian,
UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Tougher
measures for drug dealers |
|
|
Suspected drug dealers could have their assets
seized on arrest, rather than when charged, under the government's
latest 10-year drugs strategy [BBC, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
New
drug strategy ignores the terrible costs of past failures |
|
|
Transform's press release on the new drug strategy
[TDPF, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Drug
use in England and Wales |
|
|
Table showing the estimated number of users
of different drugs in the past year, according to the British
Crime Survey [BBC, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Local
Drugs and Alcohol Information |
|
|
This compendium of local statistics on alcohol
and drug use brings together local data from available national
sources. Excel format 1.8MB [DMIS, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Initial
Severity and Antidepressant Benefits |
|
|
A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food
and Drug Administration [PLoS] |
|
|
|
|
|
Drug
giants warned: Tell the truth on medicines |
|
|
After antidepressant treatments are discredited,
fears grow that other products may be ineffective [Independent,
UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Improving
Access to Psychological Therapies implementation plan |
|
|
National guidelines for regional delivery [DoH,
UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Improving
Access to Psychological Therapies will reduce reliance on failing
antidepressants |
|
|
The government published guidance today on
how strategic health authorities will deliver talking therapies
in the near future, on the day that research revealed that antidepressants
do not work [Community Care, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Army
of therapists to push aside pills for depression |
|
|
The government yesterday released details of
its £170m plan to train 3,600 more psychological therapists
in the wake of a study showing that antidepressant drugs such
as Prozac are no more effective than a placebo [Independent,
UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Drug
groups back anti-depressants |
|
|
Pharmaceutical companies yesterday mounted
a robust defence of their anti-depressant drugs following research
from the University of Hull claiming new-generation drugs had
little impact on most patients [FT, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
'Why
anti-depressants have become the alcopops of mental health,'
says former depressive |
|
|
Here, one writer who suffered from crippling
depression launches a withering attack on the ease with which
the medical profession doles out "happy pills" [Daily
Mail, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Have
Your Say: The drugs don't work |
|
|
Have you suffered from depression? Do you think
there is a fundamental problem with the way that drugs are given
licences in this country? Tell us what you think [Independent,
UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Child
nicotine patches approved |
|
|
Children as young as 12 should receive nicotine
patches if they have a serious smoking problem, the official
NHS advisory body in England says [BBC, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Seizures
of heroin reach record levels |
|
|
Gardai have seized heroin with a street value
of almost €10m so far this year, which is two-fifths of
the total for all of last year [Independent, Ireland] |
|
|
|
|
|
New
Podcast Available: Addicted to Treatment |
|
|
The latest drugs.ie episode features two talks,
both of which were recorded at the “Addicted to Treatment”policy
seminar in the Carlton Hotel, Dublin on Wednesday 13th of February
2008. Latest podcasts [Drugs.ie,
Ireland] |
|
|
|
|
|
How
do you talk to your kids about drugs? |
|
|
For some parents it can be difficult to talk
to their kids about drugs. But a little education and honesty
can make it a lot easier [CTV, Canada] |
|
|
|
|
|
Needle-Exchange
Pilot Program in New Jersey Is 'Struggling' To Enroll IDUs |
|
|
New Jersey's pilot needle-exchange program
is "struggling" to enroll injection drug users in part
because of a lack of funding [Kaiser Network, USA] |
|
|
|
|
|
A
Closer Look at Crack Offenders |
|
|
Recent reporting on a U.S. Sentencing Commission
staff report claiming that "most" crack offenders soon
to be released from jail are "nonviolent" failed to
fully examine the commission's data [Washington Post, USA] |
|
|
|
|
|
US
drug czar: Cocaine trafficking broadens on Venezuela-Caribbean
route |
|
|
The U.S. drug czar warned Tuesday of a "tidal
wave of cocaine" moving from Venezuela through Haiti and
the Dominican Republic, part of a 40 percent increase in trafficking
of the drug from South America through the region last year [IHT,
France] |
|
|
|
|
|
PM
in pledge on drug abuse |
|
|
Kevin Rudd has extended his morals agenda into
alcohol and substance abuse, promising he is preparing government
action in the wake of new figures highlighting the problem [The
Australian] |
|
|
|
|
|
Australian
Psychological Society supports call for action following release
of report on youth alcohol abuse |
|
|
The Australian Psychological Society called
attention to the release of the Australian National Council on
Drugs report into Supporting the Families of Young People with
Problematic Drug Use [Australian Psychological Society] |
|
|
|
|
|
Graphic
tobacco warnings pack a punch |
|
|
Regulations effective from today will see graphic
pictorial health warnings appear on all tobacco sold in New Zealand
[Scoop, New Zealand] |
|
|
|
|
|
Fighting
Afghanistan's poppy curse |
|
|
How do you stop Afghanistan from being the source of most of
the world’s opium? [Telegraph, UK] |
|
|
|
