This study aims to explore the gender dimension of non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) in Europe and the Mediterranean region and continues to build on the corpus of knowledge on the subject and also help identify gaps (Co-operation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit trafficking in Drugs)
Archives for April 2015
Bibliography: All Publications
An Innovative Drug Policy That Works
The program, launched in 2011 as the first of its kind in the country, allows law enforcement officers to direct people charged with low-level drug or sex work offenses into community-based services instead of prosecution and jail (Open Society Foundations)
Maximizing Health, Minimizing Harm: The Role of Public Health Programs in Drug User Health
Impact of Preventable HIV and Hepatitis Outbreaks in States (NASTAD)
Alcohol and other Drug Use
The Roles and Capabilities of Social Workers (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Global prison trends 2015
Drugs and imprisonment (Penal Reform International)
Advances in Dual Diagnosis
When 80 per cent of your clients have a dual diagnosis, asking whether the service needs a dual diagnosis worker is getting things the wrong way around (Advances in Dual Diagnosis)
Protection or Harm? Suppressing Substance-Use Data
We believe that the federal government’s short-sighted policy will harm the very people it was meant to protect (NEJM)
Drugs and The Internet
This bulletin is the fourth in a series by the Drug Trends Unit that provides analysis of trends over time in the availability and type of substances sold via the internet to Australia. The current bulletin reports for the time period July 2014 to December 2014 (NDARC)
Global prison trends 2015
Drugs and imprisonment (Penal Reform International)
Understanding the health and service needs of diverse populations of pharmaceutical opioid users
Cohort studies of dependent users in treatment, and people who inject drugs (NDARC)
Maximizing Health, Minimizing Harm: The Role of Public Health Programs in Drug User Health
Impact of Preventable HIV and Hepatitis Outbreaks in States (NASTAD)
Sentencing reform for drug trafficking in England and Wales
This paper discusses recent changes to sentencing in England and Wales, which aim to recognise drug couriers as a distinct category, and so attribute lesser, more proportionate punishment (IDPC)
Drug users should be able to get heroin from the health system
Politicians may not like it, but evidence shows that giving heroin to some users reduces harm, argues Martin T Schechter (BMJ)
A Changing Landscape for Commissioning
This is the third in a series of briefings by DrugScope on behalf of the Recovery Partnership which examines some of the broader issues around recovery from substance misuse problems (DrugScope)
Podcasts of New Drug Seminars
Supply and demand: drug markets in transition (University of Kent)
Drugs and The Internet
This bulletin is the fourth in a series by the Drug Trends Unit that provides analysis of trends over time in the availability and type of substances sold via the internet to Australia. The current bulletin reports for the time period July 2014 to December 2014 (NDARC)
Advocating for treatment and recovery at the strategic level
Lessons from a roundtable of commissioners (DrugScope)
Not for human consumption
An updated and amended status report on new psychoactive substances (NPS) and ‘club drugs’ in the UK (DrugScope)
Drug policy reform and the reclassification of cannabis in England and Wales: A cautionary tale
The contradictions and reversals involved in the reclassification of cannabis, it is argued, can be readily understood in terms of the broader politics of crime and control and the ‘structured ambivalence’ of state responses (Drug Policy)
Mental health and substance misuse
This briefing describes several aims (DrugScope)