Drugs

Citation

(2012), "Drugs", Drugs and Alcohol Today, Vol. 12 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/dat.2012.54412daa.005

Drugs

Article Type: Round up From: Drugs and Alcohol Today, Volume 12, Issue 4

Consideration of naloxone – reports on the findings from The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on whether naloxone should be more widely available in the UK, www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/agencies-public-bodies/acmd1/consideration-of-naloxone?view=Standard&pubID=1026509

EMCDDA Fact sheet No. 6. Responding to drug use and related problems in recreational settings reviews measures and approaches for creating safer nightlife environment for young people, www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2012/fs-6

Guidelines for the evaluation of drug prevention: a manual for programme planners and evaluators – this second edition is an updated version of the original EMCDDA guidelines, which contains new methods, concepts and examples of currently available drug prevention interventions and which provides a framework for carrying out an evaluation, www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/manuals/prevention_update

The 2011 ESPAD Report – European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs provides comparable data on substance use among 15-16-year-old European students, www.espad.org/en/Reports–Documents/ESPAD-Reports/

Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2011 – which surveyed around 6,500 pupils between September and December 2011 focuses on drug use and the key findings are that 12 per cent of pupils reported having taken drugs in the last year – compared to 20 per cent in 2001; drug use increased with age with three per cent of 11-year-olds reporting having taken drugs in the last year compared to 23 per cent of 15-year-olds; pupils were more likely to have taken cannabis than any other type of drug, but levels of cannabis use were still down on 2001 levels with 7.6 per cent reporting they had taken the drug in the last year compared to 13.4 per cent a decade earlier; pupils were most likely to have got drugs on the most recent occasion from a friend (71 per cent) and the proportion of pupils who had ever tried drugs was lower in regions in the north and midlands than in the south of England, www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/sdd11fullreport

National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVII: Teens – the 17th annual back-to-school survey conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, USA, finds that nine out of ten (86 per cent) of American high-school students say that some classmates are drugging, drinking and smoking during the school day, according to the high-school students say that about 17 per cent of their classmates (2.8 million teens) drug, drink and smoke during the school day, www.casacolumbia.org/templates/NewsRoom.aspx?articleid=692&zoneid=51

World Drug Report 2012 – from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime provides an overview of recent trends and the current situation in terms of production, trafficking and consumption and the consequences of illicit drug use in terms of treatment, drug-related diseases and drug-related deaths. It also considers the main characteristics of the contemporary drug problem and how it has changed over the last few, www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/WDR2012/WDR_2012_web_small.pdf

People with drug dependence need better access to health care – most people with drug use disorders do not receive effective treatment and care, according to a new WHO information system that, for the first time, provides details on the resources allocated to the prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug-related problems in 147 countries. Until now, drug dependence has not been recognized as a health problem in many countries and stigma and discrimination associated with drug dependence have been major barriers to appropriate treatment, www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2012/drug_use_20120626/en/index.html

Irish Needle Exchange – useful information sheet about paramethoxymethamphetamine alert regarding PMA – INEF.

Drug Misuse Declared: Findings from the 2011/12 Crime Survey for England and Wales examines the extent and trends in illicit drug use among a nationally representative sample of 16- to 59-year-olds resident in households in England and Wales, www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/crime-research/drugs-misuse-dec-1112/

Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales-2011 – contains data on deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales from 1993 onwards, by cause of death, sex, age and substances involved in the death, www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/subnational-health3/deaths-related-to-drug-poisoning/2011/stb-deaths-related-to-drug-poisoning-2011.html

Inhalant Abuse – an updated edition of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse research report series paper on the nature and extent of inhalant abuse, its potential health consequences, and hazards of chemicals found in commonly abused inhalants, www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/inhalant-abuse