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Background
Briefings |
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All 63 of Professor David Clark's Background
Briefings, which have appeared in Drink and Drugs News, are now
available on our Background
Briefings blog - see Archive on the right [Background Briefings,
UK] |
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Capital
development programme for inpatient and residential rehabilitation
substance misuse |
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The addendum guidance sets out the process
for assurance of the delivery of the capital development programme
for inpatient and residential substance misuse (drug and alcohol)
services 2007/08 and 2008/09, including guidance on the reallocation
of funds [DoH, UK] |
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Integrated
Drug Treatment System for Prisons |
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Allocations for 2008/09 [Department of Health,
UK] |
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Drug
and Alcohol Misuse in the Criminal Justice System Conference |
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Power Point presentations [PHRN, UK] |
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Population
in custody (monthly) |
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The publication also contains more detailed
information on the make-up of the prison population by custody
type, offence group, sentence length, age group and establishment Excel
tables [Ministry of Justice, UK] |
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A
report from the Drug and Alcohol Misuse in the Criminal Justice
System Conference |
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“Control myths” surrounding drug
use in prison leads to risky injecting practices in prisons and
high rates of drug overdose of recently released prisoners [Connections,
UK] |
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Working
for everyone: building community confidence in the criminal
justice system |
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Jack Straw has given a lecture at the Royal
Society of Arts on public confidence in the criminal justice
system [Ministry of Justice, UK] |
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Whatever
Happened to Harm Reduction? |
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The Department of Health Reducing Drug Related
Harm Action Plan is coming up to its first birthday in a couple
of weeks ... How much have we achieved since its publication
and what can that tell us about the state of harm reduction in
the UK? [Sara McGrail, UK] |
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Gordon
Brown To Regrade Cannabis As A Class B Drug Sparks Approval
From Recovering UK Addicts |
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Dan Butcher, Founder of The Recovery Network
an online social networking website for those affected by addiction,
agrees with Gordon Brown's upcoming ruling to regrade cannabis
as a class B drug. It sends out the message that drugs are dangerous
and linked to crime [Medical News Today, UK] |
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Setting
the responsible drinking agenda |
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Companies are in a unique position to inform
and educate consumers through their marketing. 20-page PDF [Portman
Group, UK] |
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Drugnet
Europe |
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Issue 62. April–June 2008 [EMCDDA] |
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Latin
America needs a new drug policy approach |
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The inaugural meeting in Rio de Janeiro of
the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy [UNGASS] |
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Chemical
Reactions |
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Fumigation: Spreading Coca and Threatening
Colombia’s Ecological and Cultural Diversity. 32-page PDF
[WOLA] |
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Prevention
of harm from alcohol consumption in rural and remote communities |
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Evidence shows that alcohol consumption is
disproportionately higher in rural and remote regions of Australia
compared with metropolitan areas. Text
of the seminar [Drug Info, Australia] |
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Illicit
Drug Trends of Afghan opiates |
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Afghanistan is virtually the world's sole producer
of opium, yielding at least 93 per cent of the global annual
output. This poses a serious health and security threat to the
world, particularly Afghanistan and its neighbours. To better
understand the nature, extent and impact of this threat, UNODC
has launched a series of Illicit Drug Trend reports [UNODC] |
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