30 Nov 2018
Key findings from the 2018 Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) and Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) jurisdictional interviews are available online now (NDARC)
Archives for November 2018
Bibliography: All Publications
Guidance for drug and alcohol treatment providers and clients
Guidelines for drug and alcohol treatment providers on sharing client’s information with the National Drug and alcohol Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)
Rights, Respect and Recovery (PDF)
Scotland’s strategy to improve health by preventing and reducing alcohol and drug use, harm and related deaths (Scottish Government)
National Naloxone Programme Scotland Monitoring Report 2017/18 (PDF)
A total of 8,397 take-home naloxone kits were issued in Scotland in 2017/18, an increase of 3% from the previous year (NHS National Services Scotland)
Exploring new and emerging drug trends and developments in CELAC countries: joint report from the EMCDDA and COPOLAD workshop on trendspotter methodology
The workshop involved representatives from national drug observatories based in countries from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), along with experts from European countries and regional and international organisations active in the drugs field. Download (EMCDDA)
Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017
This survey series provides England’s best source of data on trends in child mental health. [Includes data on alcohol and drug use in the chapter on Behaviours, lifestyles and identities (NHS)
Hepatitis C treatment monitoring in England
Preliminary findings from the Hepatitis C patient registry and treatment outcome system (Public Health England)
Data on clients seen at drug and alcohol treatment agencies.
April to June 2018 (Welsh Government)
Canadian Substance Use Costs and Harms in the Provinces and Territories (2007–2014) PDF
The aim of this document is to provide these detailed costs so that researchers, decision makers and others can use them to inform policies and programs at the provincial and territorial levels (CCSA)
Exploring new and emerging drug trends and developments in CELAC countries
Joint report from the EMCDDA and COPOLAD workshop on trendspotter methodology
EMCDDA International Cooperation Framework
This document is an update of the International Cooperation Strategy adopted in 2007. It sets priorities in the area of the international cooperation aligned with the Centre’s Strategy 2025
Monitoring drug use in recreational settings across Europe: conceptual challenges and methodological innovations
This report explores how data on drug use are captured through surveys of targeted populations in recreational settings (EMCDDA)
Forensic early warning system (FEWS) annual report
Annual report on the Home Office forensic early warning system, which identifies new psychoactive substances in the UK (Home Office)
Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK
This Public Health England report describes the extent of infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom (PHE)
Review of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016
This review sought to measure changes in outcomes before and after the implementation of the Act, to provide an indication of whether its aims are being achieved (Home Office)
High and low politics in Afghanistan: The terrorism-drugs nexus and what can be done about it
Given deteriorating security, economic, and political conditions in Afghanistan, there is no realistic prospect for radically reducing the Afghan opium poppy economy and the Afghanistan’s economy dependence on it for years (Brookings)
EMCDDA International Cooperation Framework
This document is an update of the International Cooperation Strategy adopted in 2007. It sets priorities in the area of the international cooperation aligned with the Centre’s Strategy 2025 (EMCDDA)
Monitoring drug use in recreational settings across Europe: conceptual challenges and methodological innovations
This report explores how data on drug use are captured through surveys of targeted populations in recreational settings. The benefits and challenges of monitoring drug use in recreational settings are identified, as are emergent data sources and methodological innovations (EMCDDA)
Criminal exploitation and ‘county lines’: learn from past mistakes, report finds
Report finds that local agencies must learn lessons from past sexual exploitation cases to respond to ‘county lines’ and other child criminal exploitation (Ofsted, Care Quality Commission, HM Inspectorate of Probation, and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services)
EMCDDA International Cooperation Framework
This document is an update of the International Cooperation Strategy adopted in 2007. It sets priorities in the area of the international cooperation aligned with the Centre’s Strategy 2025
