This professional resource outlines how providers and commissioners can prevent deaths from drug abuse (Public Health England)
Bibliography: Interventions – Harm Reduction
Health Matters: Heroin availability and drug misuse deaths
The latest edition of Health Matters highlights the record level of drug-related deaths in England (Public Health England)
Health matters: preventing drug misuse deaths
This professional resource outlines how providers and commissioners can prevent deaths from drug abuse (Public Health England)
Criminal Justice Project – Impact of targeted drug testing on drug using offenders coming into treatment in Liverpool (PDF)
To explore the impact of targeted testing on drug using offenders coming into treatment in Liverpool, this report uses two datasets: drug testing data provided by Merseyside Police; and the criminal justice dataset entered onto the Criminal Justice Intervention Team (CJIT) Data Entry Tool (DET) by Liverpool Addaction (Public Health Institute)
Ireland’s first Supervised Injecting Facility to provide safe harbour and medical help for chronic drug users
Government approves the publication of the Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017 (DoH, Ireland)
Cross party support for new ‘Black Sheep’ report into problematic cannabis reveals regulated, legalised market would help those most at risk
A new report out today from drug policy think tank, Volteface, Black Sheep: An Investigation into Existing Support for Problematic Cannabis Use, reveals that a legal regulated market would better support people experiencing problematic cannabis use as the sector is lacking a clear, effective strategy for linking people into support and guidance (Ladbury)
The status of the HIV response in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2016
Dublin Declaration report (ECDC)
Responsible thinking BSA Alcohol Study Group, supported by SHAAP (PDF)
This report documents proceedings from the British Sociological Association (BSA) supported by Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) interdisciplinary symposium ‘How do different disciplines talk about alcohol and how can we work better together?’ held in the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on Friday 22nd April 2016 (SHAAP)
Local alcohol action areas will tackle alcohol related harms
Home Office announces the second phase of the local alcohol action areas (LAAA) programme which sees 33 new regions coming on board
Tackling tuberculosis in under-served populations
Guidance for TB Control Boards and partners outlines ways to design and deliver programmes to reduce TB in under-served populations (Public Health England)
Blood Borne Viruses
Australian Medical Association position statement
The 2016 Hep-CORE Report (Large PDF)
Monitoring the implementation of hepatitis B and C policy recommendations in Europe (ELPA)
DrugScope library archive
Wellcome Institute
WEDINOS Annual Report
This third annual report highlights new developments such as testing of festival samples sold as MDMA, in-reach support in prisons and increased engagement with those affected by severe adverse effects from use (WEDINOS)
Harm Reduction Database Wales (PDF)
Needle and syringe provision(Public Health Wales)
Alcohol/Drug-Involved Family Violence in Australia
This project sought to investigate:
• the relationship between AOD use and FDV in the Australian population;
• key demographic and environmental factors associated with different types of FDV;
• differences between AOD-involved and non-AOD-involved cases; and
• major trends in FDV incidents attended by police
(NDLERF)
‘What Works’ in Drug Education and Prevention?
This literature review examines the evidence of effectiveness of different types of drug prevention and education for children and young people, principally that which is delivered in schools (Scottish Government)
New guidelines have improved reviews of fatal and non-fatal drug poisonings
New guidelines have ensured quicker and more effective responses to fatal and non-fatal drug poisonings (NHS Wales)
Reducing opioid-related deaths in the UK
This report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs investigates the increase of drug-related deaths in the UK
Use of electronic cigarettes (Large PDF)
The first Surgeon General’s Report that focuses on the use of electronic cigarettes by youth and young adults. Summary PDF (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
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