Letter from Jane Ellison, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, and Mike Penning, Minister of State for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims to Professor Les Iversen regarding the ACMD’s report ‘Cocaine powder: review of the evidence of prevalence and patterns of use, harms and implications’ (Home Office)
Bibliography: Domestic Policy Issues
Ministerial response to ACMD report on nitrous oxide misuse
Letter from Jane Ellison, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, and Mike Penning, Minister of State for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims to Professor Les Iversen regarding the ACMD’s advice on nitrous oxide misuse (Home Office)
Opioid painkiller dependency(OPD) An overview
A report written for the All-PartyParliamentary Group on Prescribed Medicine Dependency (Harry Shapiro)
MPs to debate cannabis legalisation after petition reaches 200,000 signatures
Paul Flynn, Labour MP for Newport West, to lead debate on 12 October, though campaigners not hopeful that law will be changed as a result (Guardian)
Representation to the Spending Review 2015
Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) is a coalition of Clinks, Homeless Link and Mind, formed to improve policy and services for people facing multiple needs. This representation to the Spending Review sets out our case for a national focus on individuals with multiple needs
National Drug Policy 2015 to 2020
The Policy aims to guide, influence and support decision-making by local services, communities and non-governmental organisations, and in doing so, improve collaboration and maximise the effectiveness of the system as a whole (Ministry of Health, New Zealand)
Challenges & Opportunities
Key findings from VAADA’s Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD)Sector Recommissioning Survey (VAADA)
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)
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