Our report, written with input from charities and experts in the space, examines the management and prevention of drug and alcohol misuse at work (CIPD)
Archives for August 2020
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Prescription Opioid Misuse and Use of Alcohol and Other Substances Among High School Students
Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019 (CDC)
Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Within Syringe Service Programs — United States, 2019
In 2019, among 263 SSPs responding to an online survey, 247 (94%) had implemented OEND. The number of persons who received naloxone per opioid overdose death and the number of naloxone doses distributed per opioid overdose death during the previous year varied by census division (CDC)
Access to take-home naloxone increased through paramedic supply
Ambulance paramedics are to supply to patients at risk of an opiate overdose take-home naloxone as part of a pilot scheme in Glasgow (SDF)
WHO cannabis rescheduling and its relevance for the Caribbean
Following its first-ever critical review of cannabis, in January 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a collection of formal recommendations to reschedule cannabis and cannabis-related substances. 53 member states of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), two of which are Caribbean states, are set to vote on these recommendations in December 2020 (tni)
ACMD work programme 2020 to 2022: commissioning letter
The Home Secretary’s commissioning letter to the chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) for the period 2020 to 2022
National Naloxone programme Scotland
This release by Public Health Scotland presents information on the number of take-home naloxone kits issued by the National Naloxone Programme in Scotlan
United Kingdom drug situation: Focal Point annual report
Annual report and data tables from the UK Focal Point on Drugs on the national prevalence, impact, prevention and treatment of drug use (PHE)
Facilitators and barriers to health care access amongst people using image and performance enhancing drugs in Wales
Building on the national surveys of image and performance enhancing drug use undertaken in both 2015 and 2016, a qualitative research project was undertaken in Wales to explore the barriers and facilitators to health care access amongst people using anabolicandrogenic steroids (AAS) and other image and performance enhancing drugs (Public Health Wales)
Enhancing the Criminal Court Response to Substance Misuse
Evidence and Practice Briefing (Centre for Justice Innovation)
Physicians’ progress toward ending the nation’s drug overdose and death epidemic
The nation’s continuing increase in drug overdoses is fuelling the evolution of a more dangerous and complicated epidemic (AMA)
Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce: One Year Report
This report details the work and achievements of the Drug Deaths Taskforce following its establishment in July 2019
United Kingdom drug situation: Focal Point annual report
Annual report and data tables from the UK Focal Point on Drugs on the national prevalence, impact, prevention and treatment of drug use (Home Office)
NDCP Releases Data on Coca Cultivation and Production in Peru
Coca (the plant used to make cocaine) cultivation in Peru significantly increased to 72,000 hectares in 2019, with potential pure cocaine production of 705 metric tons (ONDCP)