Key findings from VAADA’s Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD)Sector Recommissioning Survey (VAADA)
Bibliography: Domestic Policy Issues
Australia’s National Alcohol and Drug Workforce Development Strategy
The Strategy addresses the needs of specialist AOD and generalist workers from health, welfare, education, law enforcement and related sectors, and embraces a systems approach (NCETA)
Home Office drug advisers try to clear up Theresa May’s mess
Psychoactive substances bill: Designed to take drug policy outside the realm of reason? (Politics.co)
ACMD advice about Northern Ireland’s continued maintenance of the Addicts Index
The ACMD has published advice recommending a change to the Misuse of Drugs (Notification of and Supply to Addicts) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1973 with regard to the Addicts Index
ACMD report on definitions for the Psychoactive Substances Bill
The ACMD has published its third piece of advice on the Psychoactive Substances Bill. This report makes recommendations for definitions under the bill
Illicit Drug Use and Harms, and Related Interventions and Policy in Canada
While recent federal governments introduced several law and policy measures reinforcing a repression approach to illicit drug use, lower-level jurisdictions (e.g., provincial/municipal levels) and non-governmental organizations increasingly promoted social- and health-oriented intervention frameworks and interventions, therefore creating an increasingly bifurcated–and even inherently contradictory–drug policy landscape and reality in Canada
West Midlands kinship care report: supporting kinship families affected by alcohol or drug msiuse
The purpose of this report is to highlight the specific needs of kinship carers and the value that kinship carers add to children of drug or alcohol users across the West Midlands (West Midlands Regional Forum)
Alcohol and substance misuse
This report represents a clear opportunity to influence the Welsh Government’s next Substance Misuse Delivery Plan (for 2016-2018)
Drug health harms – national intelligence
Notes for directors of public health, commissioners, service providers and needle and syringe programmes reflecting presentations and discussion from the seventh meeting of the National Intelligence Network on the health harms associated with drug use, held in London on 4 June 2015 (Public Health England)
Naloxone – preliminary advice from the working group updating Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management
The working group updating the 2007 national clinical guidelines on drug treatment has published some preliminary advice on naloxone before addressing its supply and use more fully in the published update next year. The advice covers naloxone dosing in overdose situations, take-home naloxone products that can be supplied and training that should be provided, now and following legislation to make naloxone more widely available from October 2015 onwards (Public Health England)
Paul Hayes appointed to lead substance misuse sector ‘Collective Voice’ Project
A group made up of third sector providers including Addaction, Blenheim, Cranstoun, CRI, Lifeline Project, Phoenix Futures, Swanswell and Turning Point have appointed Paul Hayes, to lead and develop the “Collective Voice” Project to ensure the voice of the drug and alcohol sector and those who uses its services are adequately heard
Public health functions to be exercised by NHS England
Public health services for people in prison or other places of detention, including those held in the Children &Young People’s Secure Estate (Public Health England)
The state of the sector: disinvestment in drug treatment is putting lives at risk!
John Jolly writes a worrying report card on the state of the drug and alcohol treatment sector and gives a call to action for us all (SMMGP)
Improving access to, and completion of, hepatitis C treatment
This briefing provides an overview of the key issues that local providers and commissioners of drug and hepatitis treatment should consider (PHE)
ACMD letter to the Home Secretary: Psychoactive Substances Bill
The chair of the ACMD responds to the Home Secretary’s letter about the Psychoactive Substances Bill
Open letter to the Prime Minister
We the undersigned request that HM Government immediately reconsiders the proposed Psychoactive Substances Bill 2015 (Breaking Convention)
Legal highs bill savaged by home secretary’s own advisers
Early research in depression could fall foul of the psychoactive substances bill, experts warn (Politics UK)
Report of visit by a Committee delegation to examine the impact of Portuguese approach to the possession of certain drugs
The Joint Committee decided to undertake a study into the effects of crimes carried out in communities by gangs and held a number of public hearings in relation to this matter (Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, Ireland)
ACMD letter to the Home Secretary: Psychoactive Substances Bill
The chair of the ACMD responds to the Home Secretary’s letter of 26 May about New Psychoactive Substances
The international evidence on the prevention of drug and alcohol use
Summary and examples of implementation in England (PHE)
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