Analyses using the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model (v.2.7) to inform the UK Chief Medical Officers’ review of the UK lower risk drinking guidelines (University of Sheffield)
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How to Break Free of the Drugs-Conflict Nexus in Colombia
After nearly 80 years of war, Colombia is on the cusp of closing a historic peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC), the country’s largest guerrilla group (InSight Crime)
Changing patterns of substance misuse in adult prisons and service responses
A thematic review (HM Inspectorate of Prisons)
Integrated Monitoring System Annual Report
Cheshire and Merseyside 2014/15
A public health and rights approach to drugs
UNAIDS welcomes the stronger health and rights approach that is emerging in current drug control debates in the context of the 2016 UNGASS on the World Drug Problem. This trend needs to be translated into concrete operational and measurable commitments by Member States
Indicators of an increase in heroin availability in Western Australia
In recent years there have been increases in the proportion of IDRS respondents reporting recent use of heroin and in increases in the number of days of use of the drug in the previous 6 months (NDARC)
US syringe funding ban impedes HIV and hepatitis C prevention
A federal budget bill now under consideration could lift the funding ban on syringe exchange programmes (Aidsmap)
The Portuguese Approach and the International Drug Control Conventions
INCB
Mortality in the Melbourne injecting drug user cohort study
Contact with emergency services, particularly for drug overdose, remains a lost opportunity to provide referrals for harm reduction and naloxone training programmes to PWID at greater risk of mortality (Harm Reduction Journal)
Social supply of cannabis in Australia
The findings have implications for the policing of social supply drug markets, the public education of participants in the social supply market and how social supply offences are dealt with in law (NDLERF)
Third Myanmar Opium Farmers’ Forum
At the end of the forum the farmers issued a statement with recommendations to policy makers nationally and internationally. The forum also agreed on follow-up activities that would help draw attention to the challenges they face. Download report (TNI)
EMCDDA Budget 2016
The EMCDDA receives stable funding under Commission budget line B3-441 of the general budget of the European Union. Each year, a preliminary draft budget is presented by the Centre’s Director to the Management Board, which may modify the draft before adopting it and submitting it to the European Commission. The Commission, in turn, makes its recommendations (which may again alter the draft) and presents the result to the European Council and Parliament
Drug-related deaths and deaths among drug users in Ireland
2013 figures from the National Drug-Related Deaths Index (HRB)
The Impact of Drug Policy on the Environment
This paper draws on scientific research to bring much-needed attention to the environmental costs of drug policies (Open Society Foundations)
Indicators of an increase in heroin availability in Western Australia
In recent years there have been increases in the proportion of IDRS respondents reporting recent use of heroin and in increases in the number of days of use of the drug in the previous 6 months (IDRS)
As UNGASS approaches, yet another devastating UN critique of the drug war is published
A significant positive outcome has already emerged from next year’s UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS)on drugs in the form of much more direct engagement in key drug policy issues from a range of UN agencies – beyond the prohibitionist silo of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (TDPF)
Ice report marks a welcome shift in thinking towards prevention and treatment
The federal government on Sunday released the final report of, and its response to, the taskforce established in response to growing community concern around crystal methamphetamine, or ice (The Conversation)
2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary
This annual assessment provides policymakers, law enforcement personnel, and prevention and treatment specialists with relevant strategic drug intelligence to assist in the formulation of counterdrug policies, establish law enforcement priorities, and allocate resources (DEA)
Late diagnosis of HIV in the United Kingdom: An evidence review
This report examines the causes of continuing late HIV diagnosis in the United Kingdom and review interventions to reduce the number of individuals presenting late (CPH)
Needle exchange services in Knowsley
An investigation into the needs and experiences of staff and service users (CPH)
Merseyside Annual DIP Report: Drug Testing (April 2014 – March 2015)
The Annual Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) Report series aims to complement the existing monthly DIP reports that are produced at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) by providing an annual snapshot of the criminal justice data provided by Merseyside police and the treatment agencies for DIP across Merseyside
Comorbidity of substance use and mental disorders in Europe
This publication looks at the co-occurrence of drug use problems and mental health disorders, taking in the theoretical background of psychiatric comorbidity, the tools for clinical diagnosis and the prevalence and clinical relevance of the problem in Europe (EMCDDA)
The extent and nature of addiction to medicines in Cheshire and Merseyside
The aim of this study was, therefore, twofold: (1) to investigate health professionals’ experiences of ATM and (2) their understanding of optimally identifying and addressing ATM (CPH)
Four charts — property crime and the availability of drug treatment
Today the ONS have produced an analysis of property crime. As the chart above shows the long term trend in falls for these crimes continues. One of the theories as to why there have been such sustained falls is about the prevalence of problematic drug use. Analysis of available data for the Home Office found that heroin and crack use (Andrew Brown)
Drug Money: the illicit proceeds of opiates trafficked on the Balkan route
This study focuses on a vital aspect of illicit drug trafficking: the huge profits that flow from this trade into the hands of criminals and their networks. South-Eastern Europe, through the so-called Balkan route, is a key pathway for the delivery of opiates from Afghanistan into Western and Central Europe (UNODC)
Drug health harms – national intelligence
Notes reflecting presentations and discussion from the eighth meeting of the National Intelligence Network on the health harms associated with drug use (PHE)
How can opioid substitution therapy be optimised to maximise recovery outcomes for service users?
The second and concluding report on opioid substitution therapy from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)
National Naloxone Programme Scotland
Monitoring Report 2014/15 (ISD)
Wales – Substance misuse statistics
These reports include statistics from the Welsh National Database for Substance Misuse and additional substance misuse related information available from routinely published sources in Wales (Welsh Government)
What Comes After the War on Drugs
What Comes After the War on Drugs (United Nations University)
Seizures of drugs in England and Wales, financial year ending 2015
This release contains the number of drug seizures made and quantity of drugs seized (Home Office)
Drugs and Illicit Practices
Assessing their impact on development and governance (Christian Aid)
Drug Policy Reform in Latin America: Discourse and Reality
This investigation seeks to give an update on the situation of people incarcerated for drug crimes and also aims to propose alternatives to incarceration (CEDD)
Widening the availability of naloxone
Guidance (Department of Health)
Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK
This Public Health England report describes the extent of infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom
National Student Drug Survey
Participants of various third level institutions around Ireland took part in a national online anonymous and randomised survey about their substance use between October and December 2014
HIV and young people who inject drugs
Technical brief (WHO)
Smoking, drinking and drug use amongst young people in England
Survey Consultation Findings (HSCIC)
HIV in the United Kingdom
Annual update on the number of cases of HIV (Public Health England)
Opioid substitution therapy, especially in combination with needle exchange, reduces transmission of hepatitis C
A pooled analysis of 25 studies has shown for the first time good evidence that methadone and other forms of opioid substitution therapy substantially reduce new hepatitis C infections. Previously, this had been clearly demonstrated for HIV, but not hepatitis C (Aidsmap)
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