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Daily
Dose sponsorship opportunity |
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WIRED is looking for new sponsors to help us
continue and further develop your Daily Dose [Editor] |
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New
TOP materials available |
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The TOP tracker form and associated guidance
is now [NTA, UK] |
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New
work programme for NICE |
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Dawn Primarolo, the Minister with responsibility
for Public Health and NICE said: "NICE is being asked to
produce guidance on severe mental illness in conjunction with
substance misuse. We have also asked NICE to develop joint public
health and clinical guidance on alcohol use disorders that will
not only cover prevention and early identification but also initial
management" [DoH, UK] |
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Working
Together to Reduce Harm - The Substance Misuse Strategy for
Wales 2008-2018 |
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This consultation sets out and invites views
on our new substance misuse strategy, entitled “Working
Together to Reduce Harm”. [Welsh Assembly Government, UK] |
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London
Loses Out Under New Funding Formula |
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Under the new formula, based largely on treatment
numbers, London’s overall allocation from the pooled treatment
budget (PTB) could drop 14% over the next three years, while
a third of London boroughs could see their budgets reduced by
at least a quarter. 8-page PDF [LDAN, UK] |
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MPs’ probe
into Rx/OTC addiction not concluded |
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The inquiry, which is being conducted by the
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Misuse (APPGDM), is still
in the process of gathering evidence and will not be publishing
its conclusions until much later in the year [PharmaTimes, UK] |
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HM
Inspectorate of Prisons annual report 2006-2007 |
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Annual report 2006-2007. 74-page PDF [HM Chief
Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales] |
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Freedom's
Orphans: |
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Raising youth in a changing world. Executive
summary PDF [IPPR, UK] |
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Irish
National Drug Awareness Campaign reviewed on Irish Television |
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National Campaign Interview on Seoiga and O\'Shea,
RTE1. Live interview with Minister Pat Carey, TD, Chris Murphy
(Crosscare Drug & Alcohol Programme), Stuart Clarke (Hotpress
Magazine) [drugs.ie, Ireland] |
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Whose
Guidelines to Follow? |
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Perhaps some of the best advice to follow is
that from Marianne Kobus-Matthews, organizational lead on low-risk
drinking guidelines [Alcohol Policy Network, Canada] |
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Moscow
AIDS Conference Blocks Drug Treatment Patients, Groups Charge |
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In advance of a regional AIDS conference in
Moscow, nearly 90 health and human rights groups from 27 countries
today petitioned a top health official to allow drug treatment
patients to enter Russia with their medications [Open Society
Institute, USA] |
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Women
Behind Bars |
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War on drugs leads to explosion of female incarcerations
[In These Times, USA] |
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Closing
the Addiction Treatment Gap |
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This initiative is designed to create an awareness
of - and increase resources to close - an alarming treatment
gap: currently, four out of five Americans who need drug and
alcohol addiction treatment are unable to get it [Open Society
Institute, USA] |
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