ICPC wrote a report for the Government of Canada on the prevention of drug-related crime. More precisely, the study focus on the legislative frameworks and programmes to prevent violent behavior associated with the acquisition and use of drugs International Centre for the Prevention of Crime)(
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Managing drug users’ high suicide risk
A new NDARC resource assists co-ordinated approach
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)
Precursor chemical licensing
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals (Home Office)
WHO calls for urgent action to curb hepatitis
WHO is alerting people to the risks of contracting hepatitis from unsafe blood, unsafe injections, and sharing drug-injection equipment
Alternatives to punishment for drug-using offenders
Based on the options provided by the international drug control legal framework, this paper considers the rehabilitative measures of treating, educating or reintegrating drug users as alternatives or additions to conviction or punishment that are established in the laws of many countries in Europe today (EMCDDA)
National Ice Taskforce
National Ice Taskforce present its interim report to the Council of Australian Governments meeting in Sydney (Australian Government)
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
Drug misuse: findings from the 2014 to 2015 CSEW
This release examines the extent and trends in illicit drug use among a nationally representative sample of 16 to 59 year olds resident in households in England and Wales, and is based on results from the 2014/15 Crime Survey for England and Wales (Home Office)
Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Among Young People in England – 2014
This report contains results from an annual survey of secondary school pupils in England in years 7 to 11 (mostly aged 11 to 15). 6,173 pupils in 210 schools completed questionnaires in the autumn term of 2014 (HSCIC)
Steroids and Image Enhancing Drugs
This document summarises key findings from the second year of the SIEDs survey, with a particular focus of the report being on the specific drugs of use (CPH)
IDPC recommendations for the “ZERO DRAFT” of the UNGASS outcome document
Four specific UN actions to include in the UNGASS Outcome Document (IDPC)
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)
Alternatives to punishment for drug-using offenders
Based on the options provided by the international drug control legal framework, this paper considers the rehabilitative measures of treating, educating or reintegrating drug users as alternatives or additions to conviction or punishment that are established in the laws of many countries in Europe today (EMCDDA)
Draft Council conclusions on the implementation of the EU Action Plan on Drugs 2013-2016
Regarding minimum quality standards in drug demand reduction in the European Union
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)
Safety in prisons: HM Chief Inspector’s warning on the way out
The annual report from the HM Inspectorate for Prisons (HMI) was published this week, and it makes for challenging reading (MEAM)
EU drugs agency steps up cooperation with National Security Council of Armenia
This cooperation takes place within the EMCDDA’s mandate for cooperation with third (non-EU) countries in consultation with its Management Board and the European Commission (EMCDDA)
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)
Understanding recent trends in Australian alcohol consumption
This report examines recent trends in alcohol consumption in Australia across three measures: rates of abstention, rates of episodic heavy drinking and the distribution of drinking across the population (FARE)
Injecting risk practices and Hepatitis C
Harm minimisation interventions and public health messages need to target this behaviour to reduce the risk of HCV infection (NDARC)
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
People who inject drugs: HIV and viral hepatitis monitoring
Data tables and commentary for the unlinked anonymous monitoring survey of people who inject drugs, data for 2004 to 2014 (Public Health England)
Alcohol’s Harm to Others
A report for the Institute of Alcohol Studies produced by the University of Sheffield School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
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)
Report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2015: raising taxes on tobacco
World Health Organization. (2015) Report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2015: raising taxes on tobacco
Open letter to the Prime Minister
We the undersigned request that HM Government immediately reconsiders the proposed Psychoactive Substances Bill 2015 (Breaking Convention)
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)
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
Reducing the Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Southern Afghanistan
This report identifies a broad range of factors that drive opium poppy cultivation in southern Afghanistan, the locus of opium production in that country, and assesses the positive and negative effects of programs designed to promote rural development, eradicate opium poppies, or otherwise create incentives for farmers to reduce the cultivation of opium poppies (RAND)
The international evidence on the prevention of drug and alcohol use
Summary and examples of implementation in England (PHE)
EMCDDA-Europol 2014 Annual Report on the implementation of Council Decision 2005/387/JHA
This report presents the key activities performed by the EMCDDA and Europol in 2014, with details on all the relevant activities in support of the implementation of Council Decision 2005/387/JHA on the information exchange, risk assessment and control of new psychoactive substances, including new psychoactive substances notified in 2014
View from the Ground: Infrastructure and Coca in Guaviare, Colombia
In mid-May 2015, Ross, Dave and I left the relatively comfortable climate of Bogotá and headed to the humidity of South East Colombia and the Department of Guaviare to conduct fieldwork … (Global Drug Policy Observatory)
Australian NSP Survey Data Reports
The survey forms the basis of Australia’s human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C surveillance among injecting drug users, and monitors behavioural indices of risk in addition to prevalence of infection (Kirby Institute)
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)
World Drug Report 2015
UNODC
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