The annual report from the HM Inspectorate for Prisons (HMI) was published this week, and it makes for challenging reading (MEAM)
Bibliography: Interventions – Law Enforcement
The hidden market for legal highs in prison
The report from Nigel Newcomen CBE, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman is the latest to paint a very worrying picture about the scale of the market for new psychoactive substances (NPS) in prisons, their impact on the health of prisoners and on the stability of prison regimes (The Justice Gap)
New Psychoactive Substances – Fatal incident investigations issue 9
This Learning Lessons Bulletin examines deaths of prisoners where the use of ‘NPS’ type drugs was suspected (Prison and Probation Ombudsman, UK)
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)
Two new “legal highs” to be banned under temporary order
Two new so-called “legal highs” have been banned by the Government (Home Office)
Methylphenidate-based novel psychoactive substances: temporary class drug order report
This report advises on a temporary class drug order report on a number of methylphenidate-based novel psychoactive substances (ACMD)
New psychoactive substances in Europe: Innovative legal responses
This short report provides an overview of how European countries are developing innovative legal responses to the challenges presented to public health and drug policy by the rapidly evolving market for new psychoactive substances (EMCDDA)
National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2015
Drugs on page 23 (National Crime Agency)
Psychoactive Substances Bill
Lord’s Amendments (Parliament UK)
Social bias in the policing of illicit drug users in the UK and Australia
Findings from a self-report study (University of Kent)
Prison health: health and justice annual report
Public Health England (PHE) annual report on health trends in prisons and other prescribed places of detention
Getting Drug Policy Right for Women and Girls
When most people picture the illicit drug trade – the traffickers, the gangs, the kingpins – they picture a world comprised of men. But drugs and drug-related crime affect women uniquely. Understanding how women fit into this dynamic is crucial to getting drug policy right ( Open Society Foundations)
Drug decriminalisation in Portugal
Setting the record straight (TDPF)
Models for the legal supply of cannabis
Recent developments (EMCDDA)
Creation of a blanket ban on new psychoactive substances in the UK
Impact assessment of the bill (Home Office)
Laws prohibiting peer distribution of injecting equipment in Australia
A critical analysis of their effects (Drug Policy)
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: What do the international drug control treaties say about ‘most serious crimes’?
By Dr Rick Lines. Executive Director of Harm Reduction International, and a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
Laws prohibiting peer distribution of injecting equipment in Australia
A critical analysis of their effects (Drug Policy)
Blanket ban to clamp down on ‘legal highs’
Action to protect young people from the dangers of so-called ‘legal highs’ and target those who profit from their trade was announced by the UK government (Home Office)
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