Bibliography
Recent publications across all six ISSDP Grey Literature Bibliography Categories are held here for one month. They will then be located in specific categories in the main Bibliography to be replaced by more recent research.
| Annual review of the drug strategy 2010 May 2012 |
| The first annual review of the Drug Strategy 2010 provides a progress update on implementation of the Drug Strategy and includes an action plan for tackling the threat from new psychoactive substances - Download | Home Office, UK |
| Letter from the Home Secretary to Professor Les Iversen May 2012 |
| Response from the Home Secretary to the ACMD’s Novel Psychoactive Substances report | Home Office, UK |
| Building recovery in communities May 2012 |
| A summary of responses to the consultation | NTA, UK |
| Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program May 2012 |
| 2011 Annual Report | ONDCP, USA |
| Illicit Drug Data Report 2010-11 May 2012 |
| It provides a statistical overview of illicit drug arrests and seizures as well as profiling the current situation, national impact and the emerging trends and threats of illicit drugs in Australia - full report | Australian Crime Commission |
| How the War on Drugs Distorts Privacy Law May 2012 |
| The U.S. Supreme Court will soon determine whether a trained narcotics dog’s sniff at the front door of a home constitutes a Fourth Amendment search | Stanford Law Review, USA |
| Report estimates number of crimes prevented by drug treatment May 2012 |
| Every £100 invested in drug treatment services prevents a crime being committed, according to a study released today - 'Estimating the Crime Reduction Benefits of Drug Treatment and Recovery' | National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK |
| Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Instability May 2012 |
| The complex relationship between human security, crime, illicit economies, and law enforcement. It also seeks to disentangle the linkages between insurgency on the one hand and drug trafficking and organized crime | Strategic Studies Institute |
| Just How “New” is the 2012 National Drug Control Strategy? May 2012 |
| Some have hailed the Obama administration’s 2012 National Drug Control Strategy as a revolutionary shift toward a public health approach to the nation’s drug problems. Others have panned it as nothing new | WOLA, USA |
| ACT Trends in Ecstasy and Related Drug Markets 2011 May 2012 |
| Findings from the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) - Download | NDARC, Australia |
| NSW Drug Trends 2011 May 2012 |
| Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) - Download | NDARC, Australia |
| More Drug Trends Jurisdictional Reports May 2012 |
| Full list of reports from | NDARC, Australia |
| 2nd Australian Needle and Syringe Program Return on Investment Study May 2012 |
| The Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) Asia Pacific Drug Issues Committee (APDIC) is pleased to announce the availability of translations of a new summary paper based on the influential 2nd Australian Needle and Syringe Program Return on Investment Study - English | Australian National Council on Drugs |
| Opiate flows through northern Afghanistan and central Asia May 2012 |
| A threat assessment | UNODC |
| Sharp rise in crystal meth ambulance call-outs May 2012 |
| Figures released today show a 107 per cent increase in crystal methamphetamine-related ambulance call-outs, with 282 incidents in 2010-11 compared with just 136 in 2009-10 - Report | Turning Point, Australia |
| NTA Action Plan 2012-13 May 2012 |
| The Department of Health has approved the NTA's work programme for 2012-13 - Download | National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK |
| The ethics and effectiveness of coerced treatment of people who use drugs May 2012 |
| This article addresses the issues of ethics and effectiveness in coerced treatment for people who use drugs. It is based on the existing evidence on coerced treatment, as well as on considerations of the ethics of such treatment and my own research on quasi compulsory treatment in Europe - Alex Stevens, PhD | Human Rights and Drugs |
| Proposals to amend the NDTMS dataset - young people May 2012 |
| The NTA is proposing to amend the data that is collected by National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) from April 2013, to ensure it remains relevant to the delivery of specialist substance misuse interventions for young people | National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK |
| Irish Prison Service three year strategic plan 2012-2015 May 2012 |
| Rising prisoner numbers have placed enormous strain on the prison system across the board from accommodation to the provision of services including work training/education, healthcare and drug treatment services | Irish Prison Service |
| ACPO published UK national problem profile commercial cultivation of cannabis April 2012 |
| A national problem profile published today by the Association of Chief Police Officers shows the commercial cultivation of cannabis continues to pose a significant risk to the UK with increasing numbers of farms being detected by police | Association of Chief Police Officers, UK |
