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Does this sound like anyone you know? Darryl is 35, has a steady job, a stable home and good marriage, enjoys a few beers in front of the TV most nights – doesn’t have what most people would call a drink problem [The Age, Australia]
West Australian premier Colin Barnett has defended his health minister’s decision to send a young drug abuser to New Zealand for her second liver transplant [Perth Now, Australia]
Yet according to s forthcoming presentation by Professor Gerry Stimson, executive director of the International Harm Reduction Association, globally just three US cents a day is spent per injecting drug user in low and middle-income countries on measures to prevent the spread of HIV [Guardian, UK]
But with about 10% to 15% of Americans, mostly middle-aged or older, suffering from chronic pain severe enough to interfere with daily life, figuring out which pain medications work best — and which are safest — is of crucial interest [Time, USA]
The number of Scots with chronic liver disease — which is associated with binge-drinking — has almost trebled in the past 15 years, giving the nation the second-highest rate in Europe [Times, UK]
We should think very carefully before we start routinely taking drugs such as Modafinil to boost cognitive function [Guardian, UK]
What’s worse: declaring war against a social problem or calling for a Marshall Plan to solve it? Both are enduring and popular metaphors. Unfortunately, both lead to bad government decisions [npr, USA]
Calls for action as crime hits six times worldwide average [Scottish TV, UK]
Public Health Association of Australia president Professor Mike Daube says the industry is as bad as “Big Tobacco” when it comes to pushing their wares. He says the idea of negotiating with the drinks industry is a failed experiment and that it is “cloud cuckoo land” to think they can make any constructive contribution to public health policy [Adelaide Now, Australia]
“We’ve got to put scientific information into policies that make sense and will deliver for Americans,” said McLellan, who left Philadelphia six months ago to become the nation’s No. 2 drug-policy official [philly.com, USA]
As new prescribing guidelines are launched, we reveal a huge rise in the use of opioids such as codeine and diamorphine [Telegraph, UK]
What a £1.5m refurbishment of a leading Leeds charity will mean for the city’s homeless [Guardian, UK]
A generation of parents in Buenos Aires can only watch in despair as their sons and daughters are consumed by paco, a lethally cheap drug [Observer, UK]
Children with ADHD who use prescription drugs to manage their condition are 10 times more likely to perform poorly at school than ADHD kids who avoid medication, a new report reveals [The Australian]
Growing problems with alcohol abuse in Leeds are costing the city more than £275m a year, councillors heard this morning [Guardian, UK]
A fundamental change in drugs law that would criminalise the act of selling or manufacturing recreational drugs rather than outlawing the substance itself has been proposed by the Scottish government, and is being studied by officials in Edinburgh and London, The Times can reveal [Times, UK]
El Paso, with a population of 740,000, and Juárez, with one of 1.4 million, have long been urban sisters, as tens of thousands of people move between the two every day, to work, or shop, or visit. But the cartel war has complicated things here: the violence in Juárez can seem so far away, and yet so close [New York Times, USA]
Government may make warnings compulsory after report shows industry is widely shunning voluntary code on labelling [Guardian, UK]
Matthew Bristow tells of long waits, dangerous journeys and ruthless characters encountered chronicling cocaine industry [Guardian, UK]
The Government’s quick dismissal of the bulk of the Law Commission’s work on drug use in New Zealand is regrettable [The Dominion Post Editorial, New Zealand]
