The latest edition of our annual report on how New Zealand is dealing with drugs and drug harm (NZDF)
Archives for February 2022
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State Toolkit to End the Nation’s Drug Overdose Epidemic
Leading-Edge Actionsand Strategies to Remove Barriers to Evidence-based Patient Care (American Medical Association)
Student drug use: reducing harm and tackling supply
Universities UK (UUK) has today announced new work, in partnership with Unite Students, GuildHE and Independent HE, to set out a common approach to reduce harms from drug use and to better tackle supply (UUK)
Recreational drug use: what’s the harm?
In recent years, some in law enforcement and Government have associated recreational drug use, particularly among the middle classes, with increasing violence. This article looks at the Government’s plans to tackle the problem, responses to the proposals and Dame Carol Black’s recent independent review of drugs (UK Parliament)
Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK
This report describes the extent of infections and injecting-related harms among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom (UK Government)
Evaluation of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme subsidised take home naloxone pilot
This report presents the final evaluation findings, covering the pilot in NSW, SA and WA from commencement on 1 December 2019 up until 30 June 2021 (Australian Government)
Seizures of drugs in England and Wales, financial year ending 2021
This statistical release presents figures for drug seizures made in the year ending 31 March 2021 in England and Wales by the police (including the British Transport Police) and Border Force (Home Office)
Youth justice statistics: 2020 to 2021
Youth justice annual statistics for 2020 to 2021 for England and Wales (Youth Justice Board for England and Wales)
Promising evidence that mobile engagement units can link hard-to-reach individuals with opioid use disorder to medication treatment
In this study, a mobile engagement unit was evaluated to see if this intervention would improve treatment utilization among a hard-to-reach population (Recovery Research Institute)