Alcohol/Drugs/Gambling
The challenge of effective prison drug treatment
Large scale DoH study into prison drug recovery wings quantifies the range and depths of needs of many drug using offenders in custody.
3rd June 2016
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Large scale DoH study into prison drug recovery wings quantifies the range and depths of needs of many drug using offenders in custody.
Latest round-up of the latest research and information on drug and alcohol issues from Andrew Brown looks at the size of the European drug market and much more
New EMCDDA publication reports on the resurgence of Ecstasy/MDMA use with much stronger pills presenting a particular risk.
New publication by Adfam for the Recovery Partnership highlights innovative practice in alcohol treatment and recovery and sets out key challenges ahead.
There has been a marked rise in the number of deaths connected to ‘legal highs’ between 2011 and 2013, when they more than tripled from seven to 23. These trends should be interpreted with caution as they are based on very small numbers.
Latest round-up of the latest research and information on drug and alcohol issues from Andrew Brown.
The number of men whose death was officially caused by drug misuse is approximately the same now as it was 15 years ago, although the last two years have seen a sharp increase. The number of women whose death was officially caused by drug misuse has doubled over the same period.
While there are an increasing number of apps designed to help drug and alcohol users in recovery, drug dealers are also taking advantage of apps to increase their customer base.
We have already seen some people use “designer drugs” such as to aid mental performance, now we may see a wave of medical research activity examining how LSD and other substances can help tackle some of the most common mental health problems including drug addiction itself.
Europe, both as individual countries and, collectively, as the EU may have good intelligence about the way the European drug markets work but has limited impact on disrupting them.
Mayor of London decides to roll out sobriety bracelets – electronic tags which monitor abstinence from alcohol for low risk offenders.
This excellent new motion graphic from the EMCDDA provides a schematic overview of selected stages of a production process.
