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High on the UK pre-election policy agenda, alcohol tax rises have now been accepted by a national US panel of experts as a major public health measure to curb excessive alcohol use and related harms. Politicians remain wary for reasons which cannot just be dismissed as populism [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
The new research, conducted in Australia, found that adolescents in the five main cities saw nearly as much TV alcohol advertising as 18-24 year olds, and in the case of full-strength beer and wine, in one city underage teens were actually exposed to more advertising than young adults of a legal drinking age [Addiction, UK]
The government is spending £17.6m on alcohol education and information in 2009-10, but this is dwarfed by the UK drinks industry’s £600-800m annual spend on promoting alcohol [British Medical Journal, UK]
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]
Release is the national centre of expertise on drugs and drugs law – providing free and confidential specialist advice to the public and professionals…. also campaigns for changes to UK drug policy to bring about a fairer and more compassionate legal framework to manage drug use in our society [Release, UK]
Nearly 1000 people lined the streets of Liverpool to celebrate Recovery for the first time. “This is no longer about the problems of addiction, its about the solutions and these people prove that”. Hope is a word that many used for years, now its belief {19’25”} [Inexcess TV, UK]
[Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
Harm reduction is a term that is used to refer both to a set of general principles used to underpin policies concerning the way that societies respond to drug problems and, simultaneously, to some specific types of intervention, such as needle and syringe programmes and methadone treatment, which are often seen as being synonymous with harm reduction [Neil Hunt and colleagues, UK]
Executive Summary: Our principal recommendation is for a multidisciplinary “Alcohol Care Team” in each District Hospital, led by a Consultant, with dedicated sessions, who will also collaborate with Public Health, Primary Care Trusts, patient groups and key stakeholders, to develop and implement a district alcohol strategy.[British Society of Gastroenterology, UK]
5 key challenges for supporting families affected by drug and alcohol use [Adfam, 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]
My friend had not even heard of ‘miaow’ or mephedrone when the head of her children’s leading London day school decided to take the law into his own hands, she told me when the tragic mephedrone deaths hit the press last week. He was not prepared to wait on the government [Kathy Gyngell, Centre for Policy Studies, UK]
Over recent days, a full-blown moral panic has erupted over the spread of mephedrone, a new and currently legal drug that has apparently become something of an overnight sensation among the UK’s young people [Release, 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]
Professor McLellan was invited by Mike Ashton of Drug and Alcohol Findings to speak at the National Addiction Centre. The event was hosted by the NAC, organised by Drug and Alcohol Findings, Drugscope and Conference Consortium {36’57”} [Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs, UK]
As promised, I’ve developed a simple method of working with recovery capital for practitioners and their clients [theartoflifeitself, UK]
General price increases were effective for reduction of consumption, health-care costs, and health-related quality of life losses in all population subgroups {Lancet Abstract, 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]
