A thematic review (HM Inspectorate of Prisons)
Archives for 2015
Bibliography: All Publications
Integrated Monitoring System Annual Report
Cheshire and Merseyside 2014/15
A public health and rights approach to drugs
UNAIDS welcomes the stronger health and rights approach that is emerging in current drug control debates in the context of the 2016 UNGASS on the World Drug Problem. This trend needs to be translated into concrete operational and measurable commitments by Member States
Indicators of an increase in heroin availability in Western Australia
In recent years there have been increases in the proportion of IDRS respondents reporting recent use of heroin and in increases in the number of days of use of the drug in the previous 6 months (NDARC)
US syringe funding ban impedes HIV and hepatitis C prevention
A federal budget bill now under consideration could lift the funding ban on syringe exchange programmes (Aidsmap)
The Portuguese Approach and the International Drug Control Conventions
INCB
Mortality in the Melbourne injecting drug user cohort study
Contact with emergency services, particularly for drug overdose, remains a lost opportunity to provide referrals for harm reduction and naloxone training programmes to PWID at greater risk of mortality (Harm Reduction Journal)
Social supply of cannabis in Australia
The findings have implications for the policing of social supply drug markets, the public education of participants in the social supply market and how social supply offences are dealt with in law (NDLERF)
Third Myanmar Opium Farmers’ Forum
At the end of the forum the farmers issued a statement with recommendations to policy makers nationally and internationally. The forum also agreed on follow-up activities that would help draw attention to the challenges they face. Download report (TNI)
EMCDDA Budget 2016
The EMCDDA receives stable funding under Commission budget line B3-441 of the general budget of the European Union. Each year, a preliminary draft budget is presented by the Centre’s Director to the Management Board, which may modify the draft before adopting it and submitting it to the European Commission. The Commission, in turn, makes its recommendations (which may again alter the draft) and presents the result to the European Council and Parliament
Drug-related deaths and deaths among drug users in Ireland
2013 figures from the National Drug-Related Deaths Index (HRB)
The Impact of Drug Policy on the Environment
This paper draws on scientific research to bring much-needed attention to the environmental costs of drug policies (Open Society Foundations)
Indicators of an increase in heroin availability in Western Australia
In recent years there have been increases in the proportion of IDRS respondents reporting recent use of heroin and in increases in the number of days of use of the drug in the previous 6 months (IDRS)
As UNGASS approaches, yet another devastating UN critique of the drug war is published
A significant positive outcome has already emerged from next year’s UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS)on drugs in the form of much more direct engagement in key drug policy issues from a range of UN agencies – beyond the prohibitionist silo of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (TDPF)
Ice report marks a welcome shift in thinking towards prevention and treatment
The federal government on Sunday released the final report of, and its response to, the taskforce established in response to growing community concern around crystal methamphetamine, or ice (The Conversation)
2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary
This annual assessment provides policymakers, law enforcement personnel, and prevention and treatment specialists with relevant strategic drug intelligence to assist in the formulation of counterdrug policies, establish law enforcement priorities, and allocate resources (DEA)
Late diagnosis of HIV in the United Kingdom: An evidence review
This report examines the causes of continuing late HIV diagnosis in the United Kingdom and review interventions to reduce the number of individuals presenting late (CPH)
Needle exchange services in Knowsley
An investigation into the needs and experiences of staff and service users (CPH)
Merseyside Annual DIP Report: Drug Testing (April 2014 – March 2015)
The Annual Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) Report series aims to complement the existing monthly DIP reports that are produced at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) by providing an annual snapshot of the criminal justice data provided by Merseyside police and the treatment agencies for DIP across Merseyside
Comorbidity of substance use and mental disorders in Europe
This publication looks at the co-occurrence of drug use problems and mental health disorders, taking in the theoretical background of psychiatric comorbidity, the tools for clinical diagnosis and the prevalence and clinical relevance of the problem in Europe (EMCDDA)
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