Most of us understand that people who are homeless, or offenders or drug misusers must also face a wider set of challenges. It is hard to imagine a person who has fallen into a hard drug problem, for example, who isn’t dealing with early problems stemming from childhood or who isn’t facing a new set of problems as a result of their drug taking (LankellyChase Foundation)
Bibliography: All Publications
A councillors’ guide to tackling new psychoactive substances
This guide is designed to provide councillors with an introduction to NPS, how they can raise awareness of the harm NPS use can cause and what councils can do to tackle sales of NPS in their areas (Local Government Association)
Justice Matters
Essays on improving Scotland’s justice system. Chapter on Tackling Drug Abuse in Scotland: A Record of Failure Not Success
The Smack Track
East African states are being undermined by heroin smuggling (The Economist)
DrugScope Street Drug Trends Survey 2014: UK drug scene ever more complex and dangerous
The latest Street Drug Survey reveals the ever more diverse range of illegal and legal drugs being used by vulnerable groups in society, with pregabalin, gabapentin and synthetic cannabinoid use of particular concern. Interviews with frontline workers also highlighted fears that drug-related deaths may continue to rise as street drug purities increase (DrugScope)
How do drug market changes affect characteristics of injecting initiation and subsequent patterns of drug use? Findings from a cohort of regular heroin and methamphetamine injectors in Melbourne, Australia
The drug market period in which injecting initiation occurred influenced the first drug injected and influenced some aspects of subsequent drug use. In the context of highly dynamic drug markets in which polydrug use is common there is a need for broad harm reduction and drug treatment services which are flexible and responsive to changing patterns of drug use (Drug Policy)
Preventing fatal overdoses
A systematic review of the effectiveness of take-home naloxone (EMCDDA)
Considering Marijuana Legalization
Insights for Vermont and Other Jurisdictions (RAND)
Trends in Opioid Analgesic Abuse and Mortality in the United States
Postmarketing surveillance indicates that the diversion and abuse of prescription opioid medications increased between 2002 and 2010 and plateaued or decreased between 2011 and 2013. These findings suggest that the United States may be making progress in controlling the abuse of opioid analgesics (NEJM)
The Rise and Challenge of Dark Net Drug Markets
This policy brief examines the expansion of drug markets on the Dark Net or ‘hidden web’ and the challenges they pose for both law enforcement agencies and the international legal framework within which those agencies ultimately operate (GDPO)
Young people’s statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System: financial year ending 31 March 2014
Presents results from the NDTMS on young people in contact with drug and alcohol treatment agencies and general practitioners (Public Health England)
World Drug Report 2014
(UNODC)
The Rise and Challenge of Dark Net Drug Markets
This policy brief examines the expansion of drug markets on the Dark Net or ‘hidden web’ and the challenges they pose for both law enforcement agencies and the international legal framework within which those agencies ultimately operate (GDPO)
Policing Minister urges police forces to take up new mobile drug testing device
The Policing Minster formally announced the first mobile drug testing device at the Roads Policing Conference (Home Office)
Considering Marijuana Legalization
Insights for Vermont and Other Jurisdictions (RAND)
The Rise and Challenge of Dark Net Drug Markets
This policy brief examines the expansion of drug markets on the Dark Net or ‘hidden web’ and the challenges they pose for both law enforcement agencies and the international legal framework within which those agencies ultimately operate (GDPO)
PHE publishes report on substance misuse treatment for young people
New data on young people’s substance misuse treatment shows that specialist services in England continue to work well (Public Health England)
IDPC response to the 2014 UNODC World Drug Report
In this report, the most recent of the IDPC’s annual responses to the UNODC’s World Drug Report, we aim to provide an overview of the data and topics presented in the Report, and where appropriate – and within the context of the Office’s narrative stance – offer a critical analysis of both (IDPC)
War on drugs: The Kiwi comedown has lessons for all
Hailed as a better way than prohibition, there is much to learn from New Zealand’s stalled attempt to legalise new highs (New Scientist)
Regional alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality in Great Britain: novel insights using retail sales data
This study provides support for the ecological relationship between alcohol-related mortality and alcohol consumption (BMC Public Health)