Recent Publications
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.
| Decrease in use of ecstasy/MDMA February 2012 |
| Findings from the DUMA program - Download | Australian Institute of Criminology |
| Drug Crime and the Narcotics Market in Tajikistan February 2012 |
| This report is a short summary of the following book chapter published in the Russian language: Latypov, A. (2011). Drug dealers, drug lords and drug warriors-cum-traffickers: Drug crime and the narcotics market in Tajikistan | Eurasian Harm Reduction Network |
| Narcotic Drugs - Estimated World Requirements for 2012 - Statistics for 2010 February 2012 |
| Technical Report | International Narcotics Control Board |
| Psychotropic Substances February 2012 |
| Technical report 2011: Statistics for 2010. Assessments of Annual Medical and Scientific Requirements for Substances in Schedules II, III and IV of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 | International Narcotics Control Board |
| Community-Based Opioid Overdose Prevention Programs Providing Naloxone February 2012 |
| To address the substantial increases in opioid-related drug overdose deaths, public health agencies could consider comprehensive measures that include teaching laypersons how to respond to overdoses and administer naloxone to those in need. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from | Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, USA |
| Report shows 7.5 million children live with a parent with an alcohol use disorder February 2012 |
| A new report shows 7.5 million children under age 18 (10.5 percent of this population) lived with a parent who has experienced an alcohol use disorder in the past year. According to the report by | SAMHSA, USA |
| Safe Management and Use of Controlled Drugs in Prison Health in England February 2012 |
| Final report | National Prescribing Centre, UK |
| Pharmaceutical drug use among police detainees February 2012 |
| In light of increased concern regarding the illegal use of prescription medication and the extent of the diversion of pharmaceuticals into the black market, the AIC incorporated a set of new questions into its third quarterly DUMA survey in 2011 | Australian Institute of Criminology |
| ACMD letter on further advice on the classification of two steroidal substances February 2012 |
| Letter from Les Iversen to Lord Henley provides further advice on the classification of two steroidal substances | ACMD, UK |
| Drug treatment in England: the road to recovery February 2012 |
| Having got record numbers of users into treatment quickly, the system is now responding to the recovery ambition of the 2010 Drug Strategy | National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, UK |
| New legal limits in traffic for drugs other than alcohol February 2012 |
| Legal limits for twenty illegal drugs and medicines with an abuse potential have been introduced by the Norwegian government | Norwegian Institute of Public Health |
| Interpersonal violence and illicit drugs February 2012 |
| This briefing summarises the links between interpersonal violence and illicit drug use, identifies risk factors for involvement in drug-related violence, outlines prevention measures that address drug-related violence, and explores the role of public health in prevention | Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK |
| Ending gang and youth violence - detailed report February 2012 |
| The report looks into the scale of the problem of gang and youth violence, analyses its causes, and identifies what can be done by government and other agencies to stop the violence and to turn around the lives of those involved | Home Office, UK |
| The role of GPs in the recovery process February 2012 |
| A collaboration with the Substance Misuse Management in General Practice -- SMMGP - which recognised the potential for this film to be an engagement tool for GPs beyond those at the two project sites. You Tube video from | RSA, UK |
| Guidance for the use of substitute prescribing in the treatment of opioid dependence in primary care February 2012 |
| This guidance covers the use of substitute medication, which can be an important element in the treatment of opioid dependent patients and their medically assisted recovery | SMMGP, UK |
| A cohesive strategy for alcohol, narcotic drugs, doping and tobacco (ANDT) policy February 2012 |
| A summarised version of Government Bill 2010/11:47 | Ministry of Health, Sweden |
| Standards and guidelines for practices February 2012 |
| This page contains a listing of national drug prevention guidelines and standards in Europe. The title, the methodological basis and the types of treatment covered by each guideline are provided, along with a download link where available | EMCDDA |
| Work programme 2012 February 2012 |
| The 2012 EMCDDA work programme takes forward activities begun in 2010 to implement the EMCDDA's three-year strategy (2010–12). This strategy seeks to: consolidate and deepen the analysis of core datasets held at the EMCDDA; invest in more complex and policy-relevant analysis; and develop a small number of new areas of strategic importance - Download | EMCDDA |
| Steering Group Report on a National substance misuse strategy February 2012 |
| A key aim of this Strategy is the promotion of healthier lifestyle choices throughout society in relation to alcohol | Department of Health, Ireland |
| Briefing paper: Illicit Drugs and Public Health in 2012 February 2012 |
| This paper sets out some of the issues and challenges for the delivery of drug interventions in the new public health system | UKDPC |
| Local Tobacco Control Profiles for England February 2012 |
| These profiles provide a snapshot of the extent of tobacco use, tobacco related harm, and measures being taken to reduce this harm at a local level | London Health Observatory, UK |
| Competition and Consumer (Tobacco) Information Standard 2011 February 2012 |
| This Standard provides for a system of health warnings to increase consumer knowledge of the health effects relating to the use of tobacco products | Australian Government |
| Transcript of oral evidence January 2012 |
| Home Affairs Committee Drugs | House of Commons, UK |
| A resounding success or a disastrous failure: January 2012 |
| Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs | Drug and Alcohol Review |
| Hepatitis C and HIV Co-infection January 2012 |
| Approximately 9% of HIV positive people in the UK are co-infected with hepatitis C | NAT, UK |
