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The aim of this study is to review evidence on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing alcohol misuse [York University and Scottish Government, UK]
The Personal Wellbeing of Regular Ecstasy Users in Australia [National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia]
Examining differences between younger and older injecting drug users in the 2009 IDRS [National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia]
It is time the Government listened more to the CMO and the President of the RCP and less to the drinks and retail industry. If everyone drank responsibly the alcohol industry might lose about 40% of its sales and some estimates are higher. In formulating its alcohol strategy, the Government must be more sceptical about the industry’s claims that it is in favour of responsible drinking [Health Committee, UK Government]
This briefing paper offers a guide to public health professionals and activists for understanding and responding to the alcohol industry’s public awareness and education initiatives. Its central thesis is that these programs can only be understood in the context of the industry’s marketing and political agendas [American Medical Association, USA]
We urgently need to move away from seeing alcohol as a means to achieve inebriation to regarding it as an accompaniment to food with both being consumed in moderation {long download} [Centre for Public Health Research, Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
Incarceration, Ill-Treatment and Forced Labor as Drug Rehabilitation in China [Human Rights Watch]
An extensive report in response to the growing evidence for and popularity of Mindfulness. It examines the evidence for the effectiveness of Mindfulness-based therapies, lays the groundwork for developing the use of Mindfulness-based approaches within the NHS and beyond – and explores the potential positive knock-on effects for society at large [Mental Health Foundation, UK]
Consumption of alcohol in the UK has increased by 19 per cent over the last three decades and is now higher than in any other European country. Recent reports indicate that 10.5 million adults in England drink above sensible limits and around 1.1 million have a level of alcohol addiction [NHS Confederation, UK]
Despite the remarkable international trend towards the abolition of capital punishment over the past twenty years, the number of countries expanding the application of the death penalty to include drug offences has increased during the same period [International Harm Reduction Association]
The alcohol consumption patterns and the associations between consumption of alcohol and socio-demographic and cultural factors have been investigated in nine rural Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) located in five Asian countries [Global Health Action]
The purpose of developing alcohol treatment pathways is to have the right people, doing the right things, in the right order at the right time, with the right outcome, right first time – all with attention to the service user’s experience and allowing for comparison of the planned care with the care that was actually delivered [Department of Health, UK]
This study shows that frequent bingeing is associated with reduced earnings whilst non bingers and occasional bingers earn a positive premium over abstainers [Monash University, Centre for Health Economics, Australia]
Recommendations for improving access to substitution treatment in Polish prisons have been signed. This step forward was made in early December at a conference co-hosted by the Penitentiary Service, the Social AIDS Committee and Open Society Institute’s Global Drug Policy program [International Drug Policy Consortium]
The Canadian federal government is again proposing mandatory sentences and stiff penalties for certain drug offences. But evidence shows that they only worsen an already dire situation [Canadian HIV/Aids Legal Network]
Afghanistan remains the world’s largest producer of opium and has an under-reported but growing heroin-use problem. Current drug control policies in Afghanistan lack focus and are unrealistic, driven by headlines rather than evidence [Transnational Institute, Netherlands]
Unless alternative livelihoods are already firmly in place, eradication of coca and opium poppy crops is counter-productive, according to a new WOLA study [Washington Office on Latin America, USA}
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing funded the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) to develop guidelines on the management of co-occurring mental health conditions in alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment settings {NB. Long download on pdf} [NDARC, Australia]
The overall number of under-18s accessing specialist substance misuse services in England during 2008-09 was 24,053. This is a modest increase of about 150 over 2007-08… [National Treatment Agency, UK]
The overall number of under-18s accessing specialist substance misuse services in England during 2008-09 was 24,053. This is a modest increase of about 150 over 2007-08… [National Treatment Agency, UK]
