This briefing provides an overview of the key issues that local providers and commissioners of drug and hepatitis treatment should consider (PHE)
Archives for July 2015
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Understanding recent trends in Australian alcohol consumption
This report examines recent trends in alcohol consumption in Australia across three measures: rates of abstention, rates of episodic heavy drinking and the distribution of drinking across the population (FARE)
Injecting risk practices and Hepatitis C
Harm minimisation interventions and public health messages need to target this behaviour to reduce the risk of HCV infection (NDARC)
ACMD letter to the Home Secretary: Psychoactive Substances Bill
The chair of the ACMD responds to the Home Secretary’s letter about the Psychoactive Substances Bill
People who inject drugs: HIV and viral hepatitis monitoring
Data tables and commentary for the unlinked anonymous monitoring survey of people who inject drugs, data for 2004 to 2014 (Public Health England)
Alcohol’s Harm to Others
A report for the Institute of Alcohol Studies produced by the University of Sheffield School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
The hidden market for legal highs in prison
The report from Nigel Newcomen CBE, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman is the latest to paint a very worrying picture about the scale of the market for new psychoactive substances (NPS) in prisons, their impact on the health of prisoners and on the stability of prison regimes (The Justice Gap)
Report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2015: raising taxes on tobacco
World Health Organization. (2015) Report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2015: raising taxes on tobacco
Open letter to the Prime Minister
We the undersigned request that HM Government immediately reconsiders the proposed Psychoactive Substances Bill 2015 (Breaking Convention)
New Psychoactive Substances – Fatal incident investigations issue 9
This Learning Lessons Bulletin examines deaths of prisoners where the use of ‘NPS’ type drugs was suspected (Prison and Probation Ombudsman, UK)
Legal highs bill savaged by home secretary’s own advisers
Early research in depression could fall foul of the psychoactive substances bill, experts warn (Politics UK)
Report of visit by a Committee delegation to examine the impact of Portuguese approach to the possession of certain drugs
The Joint Committee decided to undertake a study into the effects of crimes carried out in communities by gangs and held a number of public hearings in relation to this matter (Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, Ireland)
ACMD letter to the Home Secretary: Psychoactive Substances Bill
The chair of the ACMD responds to the Home Secretary’s letter of 26 May about New Psychoactive Substances
Reducing the Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Southern Afghanistan
This report identifies a broad range of factors that drive opium poppy cultivation in southern Afghanistan, the locus of opium production in that country, and assesses the positive and negative effects of programs designed to promote rural development, eradicate opium poppies, or otherwise create incentives for farmers to reduce the cultivation of opium poppies (RAND)
The international evidence on the prevention of drug and alcohol use
Summary and examples of implementation in England (PHE)
EMCDDA-Europol 2014 Annual Report on the implementation of Council Decision 2005/387/JHA
This report presents the key activities performed by the EMCDDA and Europol in 2014, with details on all the relevant activities in support of the implementation of Council Decision 2005/387/JHA on the information exchange, risk assessment and control of new psychoactive substances, including new psychoactive substances notified in 2014