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The
2008 Drug Strategy: The continuing nationalisation of addiction |
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An effective drugs strategy should be grounded
on the need to move people from a culture of addiction into a
culture of recovery. Helping people to get better is what the
public expects and is crucial to a healthy civil society. [Kathy
Gyngell, Chair, Prison and Addiction Unit, Centre for Policy
Studies, UK] |
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Tackling
Drugs – Reducing Crime' |
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Speech by Drugs Minister Vernon Coaker on tackling
drugs, at the 'Tackling Drugs – Reducing Crime' European
conference organised by the Nottinghamshire Police Authority
[Home Office, UK] |
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Families
and Drugs Partnership seminars Leeds and London |
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The partnership and practice seminars were
informative and highly participative [Home Office, UK] |
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Younger
drug users assessed by DIP teams in non-intensive areas; characteristics
and implications for service delivery |
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This report examines the characteristics of
clients assessed by DIP teams in 31 non-intensive D(A)AT areas
across England in 2006/7. It focuses upon significant differences
between clients under 25 and their older counterparts.12-page
PDF [Drug Interventions Programme Monitoring and Research Team
[Centre for Public Health, Faculty of Health and Applied Social
Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University] |
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LLR
DAAT New Facebook group |
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To coincide with the second National Alcohol
Awareness week, Leicestershire DAAT have launched a Facebook
group and the first in a series of online
surveys related to alcohol use [LLR DAAT, UK] |
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Substances
of Misuse |
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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
has updated the list Substances of Misuse. 2-page PDF [RPS, UK] |
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NACD
Travellers Story |
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A National Advisory Committee on Drugs video
documentary, focusing on patterns of problematic drug use in
the traveller community [Drugs.ie, Ireland] |
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Binge
Drinking and Europe |
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We are confident that this report will be
a useful resource for everyone involved in reducing the harmassociated
with this particularly harmful style of alcohol consumption.
132-page PDF [Institute of Alcohol Studies, London and the German
Centre for Addiction Issues (DHS)] |
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Online
Video Program Trains Clinicians to Help Patients Who Drink
Too Much |
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A new, interactive video
training program demonstrates quick and effective strategies
for screening patients for heavy drinking and helping them
to cut down or quit [NIAAA, USA] |
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Helping
Patients Who Drink Too Much |
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A Clinicians Guide. 40-page PDF [NIAAA, USA] |
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The
Coalition Impact: Environmental Prevention Strategies |
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This publication provides an overview of the
environmental strategies approach to community problem solving.
It includes real examples of efforts where environmental strategies
aimed at preventing and reducing community problems related to
alcohol and other drugs were implemented. 36-page PDF [CADCA,
USA] |
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Drugs
and driving in Australia |
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A survey of community attitudes, experience
and understanding. 104-page PDF [Drug Info, Australia] |
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The
costs of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug abuse to Australian
society in 2004/05 |
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This report is the fourth study by the present
authors of the social costs of drug abuse in Australia. 143-page
PDF [Commonwealth of Australia] |
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New
Zealand Police, NZ-ADAM Annual Report 2007 |
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New Zealand Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring
(NZ-ADAM) is a programme which seeks to measure drug and alcohol
use among people who have recently been apprehended by police.
99-page PDF [NZ-ADAM, New Zealand] |
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Questions
and answers - Drinking culture advertising (part A) |
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Questions
and answers - Drinking culture advertising (part B) |
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ALAC’s drinking culture campaign is part
of a programme of work designed to change the prevailing New
Zealand drinking culture which is tolerant of drunkenness, binge-drinking
and intoxication [Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand] |
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