New items from the Home Office

Home Office – The 2008 Drug strategy – one year on
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/Resources/Drugscope/Documents/PDF/virtuallibrary/drugstrategy2008oneyearon.pdf

Home Office – Drug seizures in England and Wales
Main report – http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb0809.pdf
Summary tables – http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb0809summ.xls
Supplementary tables – http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb0809supp.xls
Area tables – http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb0809area.xls

Home Office – 2009 DIP success stories: case studies from the Drugs Intervention Programme
http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/publication-search/dip/dip-success-stories-2009?view=Binary

New items from the NTA
 
NTA – Harm reduction resources
Keep walking DVD and magazine http://www.nta.nhs.uk/publications/documents/hrdvd4.pdf
Safer injecting DVD and booklet
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/publications/documents/hrdvd5.pdf
Set of 7 HRW posters
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/publications/documents/hrpostersx.pdf
NTA – Needle and syringe programme implementation tools
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/news_events/newsarticle.aspx?NewsarticleID=151
 NTA – Helping problem drug users into work
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/areas/employment/docs/Helping_problem_drugs_users_into_work_JCP_0409.pdf
NTA – The story of drug treatment: effective treatment changes lives
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/Resources/Drugscope/documents/PDF/virtuallibrary/storyofdrugtreatment.pdf.pdf
NTA – Planning, commissioning and delivering the training and employment pathway for problem drug users: Devolping practice for drugs partnerships, Jobcentre Plus and drug treatment providers
This is an updated version of the document published in January
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/Resources/Drugscope/documents/PDF/virtuallibrary/NTAJobcentreplusAprilupdate.pdf

Reports

Centre for Policy Studies – The Phoney war on drugs
http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/the%20phoney%20war%20on%20drugs.pdf
 
Department of Children, Schools and Families – Independent review of the proposal to make Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education statutory
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/Resources/Drugscope/Documents/PDF/virtuallibrary/MacdonaldPSHEReview.pdf
 
EMCDDA – Drug use: an overview of general population surveys in Europe
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/attachements.cfm/att_78300_EN_EMCDDA-TP-gps.pdf
 
EMCDDA – Internet-based drug treatment interventions
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/attachements.cfm/att_78709_EN_EMCDDA-Insight10.pdf
 
EMCDDA – Presentations from the recent conference Identifying Europe’s information needs for effective drug policy
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/events/2009/conference#presentations
 
International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) – Drug, harm reduction and the UN convention on the rights of the child: common themes and universal rights
http://www.ihra.net/Assets/1633/1/2009-04_ConventionOnTheRightsOfTheChild_HarmReduction2009.pdf
 
Open Society Institute – Human rights documentation and advocacy: A guide for organisations of people who use drugs
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/ihrd/articles_publications/publications/hrdoc_20090218/hrdoc_20090218.pdf
 
Scottish Government – Findings of a process evaluation and cost effectiveness analysis of the three Mandatory Drug Testing of Arrestees pilot schemes in Scotland
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/05/12155538/19
 
Sentencing Advisory Panel – Sentencing for drug offences consultation paper
http://www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/docs/drug_offences.pdf
Responses should be received by 15 July 2009

Substance Misuse Management for General Practitioners (SMMGP) Newsletter 26
http://www.smmgp.org.uk/download/newsletters/network026.pdf
 
SMMGP Clinical update April 2009
http://www.smmgp.org.uk/download/smmgpupdates/2009/clin_2009_04.pdf