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Up to 70% of inmates in Britain’s jails have mental health disorders. In the first of a three-part series, Nick Davies hears their shocking stories [Guardian, UK]
In the final part of his award-winning series on the criminal justice system Nick Davies finds staff and inmates fighting an outside world which obstructs the rehabilitation of offenders [Guardian, UK]
In all the coverage in the papers about mephedrone – the new as-yet-legal drug also known as meow meow and connected with the death of a number of unfortunate young people recently – there has been little focus on the economics [Telegraph, UK]
Mephedrone use among young people is spreading as rapidly as ecstasy did when it arrived on the rave scene in the late 1980s, it was claimed yesterday, as the death of a 24-year-old woman became the latest to be linked to the so-called “legal high” [Independent, UK]
Despite crackdown by Felipe Calderón, more than 2,000 people killed this year as drug cartels vie for turf [Guardian, UK]
New guidelines will help teachers meet the needs of children with foetal alcohol syndrome [Guardian, UK]
North Yorkshire woman ‘took drug in two days before death’ [Guardian, UK]
The federal government has plucked about $340 million out of struggling mental health programs in the past two years after repeatedly attacking Tony Abbott for cutting $1 billion from the health budget when he was the presiding minister [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
What’s ‘meow meow’ actually like? Dr Max Pemberton found out for himself [Telegraph, UK]
Our expert panel discusses the drug mephedrone, its effects and the likelihood of its prohibition, in a special edition of our daily news audio show with Jon Dennis [Guardian, UK]
Some 415 newly identified drugs, untested by medical science, are being sold to young people [Independent, UK]
Attempting to scare teenagers about the dangers of drugs is pointless: their brains are wired up to take risks [Times, UK]
Survey shows that patients face long waits for psychological ‘talking’ treatments, with children worse off than adults [Observer, UK]
Policy Exchange has recently conducted one of the largest independent surveys of prisoners ever undertaken in England and Wales… We discovered that up to 30,000 prisoners (35% of the total population) at any one time could be taking drugs, with 85% of prisoners confirming that they could get hold of illicit substances [Guardian, UK]
Tinkering at the legislative edges every time a new drug emerges, or simply appearing blind when new programmes and potential new solutions are tried, is no longer acceptable [Herald Scotland, UK]
Alcohol is a factor in 35% of all A&E cases and up to 70% at the weekend, placing a huge burden on the health service [Guardian, UK]
Czech pot smokers have breathed a sigh of relief after the government clarified a law on drug use, turning the country into one of Europe’s safest havens for casual drug users [Google News]
Victoria’s highest court has invoked the state’s Charter of Human Rights to send a law back to Parliament on the grounds that it breaches the rights of citizens [ABC News, Australia]
The federal government’s refusal to declare it would take over the struggling mental health system in its health-reform blueprint has drawn fire from two psychiatric leaders, Patrick McGorry and Ian Hickie [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
They are behind a string of celebrity deaths. But these legal drugs also blight thousands of more ordinary lives [Independent, UK]
