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Daily
Dose sponsorship - an attractive "New DDeal" |
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Wired In, via our charity Wired International
Ltd., is looking for financial sponsorship to help us maintain
and further develop Daily Dose during the period April 1st 2009
to March 31st 2010. Please click on the headline to read more
about our new sponsorship deal and click here to
read more about Daily Dose. Our aim is that this cost-effective
promotional and advertising platform will facilitate the activities
of sponsors and enhance their profile in the field. Please remember,
sponsorship is our lifeblood. |
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ITEP
Routes to recovery |
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Extensive research has shown that this easy-to-use
and innovative technique – which enables drug workers to
visually represent their clients’ thinking in a series
of personal maps – improves the engagement and motivation
of drug misusers [DrugScope, UK] |
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Eric
Carlin on Drug Education |
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Eric is the chair of the Drug Education Forum
and this interview was conducted as part of a short film we’ve
made and which we’ll be releasing later this year [Drug
Education News, UK] |
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Diversion
works, says Sainsbury Centre report |
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Diverting people with mental health problems
from prison is good value for taxpayers money but existing diversion
arrangements are not achieving their potential, says a report published
today by [Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, UK] |
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DDN
Features |
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Seeing
the wood and the trees - Working
recovery and using a lifeline - Post
its from practice [Drink and Drugs News, UK] |
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Mother
killed by first injection of heroin, court told |
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A mother died of a drugs overdose after trying
heroin for the first time, a court heard yesterday [The Herald,
Scotland, UK] |
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Thematic
paper on indicated prevention (Full paper) |
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This review on indicated prevention adds to
the current knowledge and understanding of risk factors in the
development of later drug problems and dependence, focusing on
the mental health and behavioural problems that develop during
childhood. 88-page PDF [EMCDDA] |
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Funds
to publicise drug hotline put on hold |
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The Government has stopped funding for the
promotion of a "dial to stop drug dealing" hotline
which had led to drug seizures and arrests [Dugs.ie, Ireland] |
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Cocaine
users spend €500m each year feeding the habit |
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€500m is the street cost of buying up
to 16 tonnes of cocaine imported here annually to meet soaring
demand, new figures obtained by the [Irish independent] |
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Wave
of Drug Violence Is Creeping Into Arizona From Mexico, Officials
Say |
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The raging drug war among cartels in Mexico
and their push to expand operations in the United States has
led to a wave of kidnappings, shootings and home invasions in
Arizona, state and federal officials said [New York Times, USA] |
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Audio
slideshow: Mexico drug violence |
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Mexico is in the grip of vicious drug-related
violence as traffickers battle each other and the authorities
[BBC, UK] |
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