Preventing heroin overdoses on release from prison
New research on the challenges of making take home naloxone kits available to released prisoners to prevent heroin overdose deaths.
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New research on the challenges of making take home naloxone kits available to released prisoners to prevent heroin overdose deaths.
In Denver, marijuana-related hospital admissions, emergency department visits, and calls to poison control centers have all increased. At the same time, arrests for marijuana use/possession and admissions to substance use disorder treatment programs have decreased.
New research seeks to establish a basket of indicators to define recovery, now updated with SURE self-checklist: Substance Use Recovery Evaluator
New Home Office report explores the impact of a heroin shortage on drug markets and the drug use and treatment seeking behaviours of drug users.
New report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs & Drug Addiction provides a comprehensive view on the importance of the overdose reversal drug naloxone
Intriguingly, annual consumption of heroin in the UK exceeds consumption in France by nearly 6 tons. Moreover, the retails price of heroin of unknown purity is higher in the UK, yet annual gross profit is greater in France…
My experience in the UK is that despite repeated initiatives, the quality of co-ordinated treatment for those with alcohol and/or drug problems and mental health disorders varies markedly from area to area.
Synthetic cannabis in prison such a major problem that inspectors recommend the Prisons Minister oversees a comprehensive response
Interesting round up of key new developments in alcohol and drugs in 2015 from Andrew Brown.
Less than one quarter (24%) of the 273,898 opiate clients who have been in contact with treatment services since 2005/6 had completed treatment and not returned by 31 March 2015.
New Public Health England report shares growing concerns about drug user infections, particularly amongst the increasing number injecting stimulants.