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The logos of our new Main Sponsors
will be on Daily Dose shortly |
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These sponsors are: Addaction, Concateno
plc, Castle Craig Hospital, CRI, C4 Recovery Solutions, Drugscope,
FRANK, Home Office, National Treatment Agency, Scottish Government,
ScriptBase, STRADA and The Vision Group
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The
harmful health effects of recreational ecstasy: a systematic
review of observational evidence |
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This review aims to address the question: 'What
are the harmful health effects of taking ecstasy (MDMA) for recreational
use?' It does not examine the harmful indirect and/or social
effects, such as effects on driving and road traffic accidents
and the consequences of any effect MDMA may have on sexual behaviour. Full
text 3.9 MB PDF [Health Technology Assessment, UK] |
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National
drug treatment waiting times framework |
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Data on the number of clients seen and the
length of time they waited to be seen for various interventions.
Tables and charts are presented by Drug Action Team area [National
drug treatment waiting times framework ISD Scotland, UK] |
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Changing
Scotland's Relationship with Alcohol: A Framework for Action |
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Alcohol Framework the next steps [Scottish
Government, UK] |
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Drug
and alcohol services |
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Reforms to the delivery of drug and alcohol
treatment will ensure services are better focused on local need
and achieving results, Fergus Ewing said on Wednesday [Scottish
Government, UK] |
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Tolerance
of alcohol abuse linked to suicide, says president |
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Continued tolerance of excessive drinking is
partly to blame for high suicide rates among young men [MHF,
UK] |
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Revisions
to the Paddington Alcohol Test (PAT) 2009 |
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Revisions to the Paddington Alcohol Test for
Early Identification of Alcohol Misuse and Brief Advice to Reduce
Emergency Department Re-attendance - Robin Touquet and Adrian
Brown [Alcohol and Alcoholism Journal, UK] |
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Alcohol
Portrayal on Television Affects Actual Drinking Behaviour |
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Our study showed that the portrayal of alcohol
and drinking characters in movies directly leads to more alcohol
consumption in young adult male viewers when alcohol is available
within the situation. 6-page PDF [Alcohol and Alcoholism] |
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3rd
International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder |
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PowerPoint Presentations- files from the conference
are now available for download [University of British Columbia] |
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Prison Drug
Treatment Strategy Review Group |
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Stakeholder consultation and involvement is
a key component of the PDTSRG and a website was launched on 2nd
March 2009 to facilitate feedback and make information on the
Review Group widely available [PDTSRG] |
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Call
to extend recovery vision beyond time-limited treatment |
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Sweeping, learned but practice-oriented tour-de-force
from the US recovery advocate who sees the creation of a recovery-friendly
environment as the best way to ensure a lasting resolution of
substance use problems with or without abstinence [Drug and Alcohol
Findings, UK] |
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A
Tale of Two Scandals |
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The current number of benzo addicts in the
UK is estimated at one and a half million although no official
figures exist [Benzo, UK] |
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Demand
for drug testing bolsters Concateno |
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Families riven by parental drug and alcohol
abuse have proved a boon to diagnostic company Concateno, as
buoyant demand for drug-testing in family law cases has caused
revenues to surge [Financial Times, UK] |
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Methadone-Associated
Overdose Deaths |
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Factors Contributing to Increased Deaths and
Efforts to Prevent Them. 55-page PDF [GAO, USA] |
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Exposure
to Substance Use Prevention Messages and Substance Use among
Adolescents: 2002 to 2007 |
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The NSDUH Report - Most youths have been exposed
to some kind of substance use prevention message - whether having
seen or heard an alcohol or drug prevention message through the
general media, participated in special classes about drugs or
alcohol, or talked with a parent about the dangers of tobacco,
alcohol, or drug use [SAMHSA, USA] |
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New
York's Rockefeller Drug Laws |
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Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal-leaning Republican
who was said to have had presidential aspirations, created the
Narcotic Addiction and Control Commission in 1967, aimed at helping
addicts get clean [TIME, USA] |
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IDPC
Briefing Paper: Antonio Costa's speech to the High Level Segment
of the 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs. |
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Antonio Costa, the Executive Director of the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), gave a speech
to the High Level Segment of the 2009 Commission on Narcotic
Drugs on the 11th March 2009. The speech drew heavily on a discussion
paper published by the UNODC shortly before the meeting [IDPC] |
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IDPC
Advocacy Note: The Political Declaration - A missed Opportunity |
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The Political Declaration adopted on the 12th
March 2009 at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Session of the
CND is a framework and a set of priorities for the next 10 years
of international drug policy [IDPC] |
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IDPC
Advocacy Note: Civil Society Engagement - UN High Level Segment
2009 |
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Civil society engagement in during the lead
up to the UN High Level Segment has been for the first time a
properly structured programmed of NGO involvement put in place
by the 'Beyond 2008' initiative [IDPC] |
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Gambling
practices among regular ecstasy users in South Australia |
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In this study, gamblers engaged in more risk
taking behaviours than non-gamblers and were more likely to engage
in polydrug use, use drugs at a greater frequency, and to take
risks when driving. 5-page PDF [EDRS, Australia] |
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Homeless
people in SAAP: SAAP National Data Collection annual report
2007-08, Australia |
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This is the Series 13 annual report of the
SAAP National Data Collection, and provides an overview of assistance
given to clients and their children by the Program in 2007-08. Supplementary
tables [AIHW, Australia] |
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Guide
to implementing family skills training programmes for drug
abuse prevention |
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This guide is developed for anybody who is
interested in developing, adapting and implementing an evidence-based
family skills training programme. The guide offers background
information of scientific evidence and lists 12 key principles
to keep in mind when using the programme [UNODC] |
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U.S.
Strategy inAfghanistan |
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Including references to drugs. 15-page PDF
[RAND, USA] |
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