Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The Department of Health has published the new White Paper Healthy lives, healthy people: our strategy for public health in England . It sets out a new framework in which a new public health service, named Public Health England, will manage its own ring-fenced budget. The paper proposes Public Health England will take on full responsibilities from 2012 with ring-fenced funding allocated to local government from April 2013 as Primary Care Trusts are removed.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The HM Treasury today announced plans to change beer duty for certain strengths as part of Government plans 'to review alcohol taxation to tackle problem drinking without unfairly penalising responsible drinkers, pubs and important local industries.' The Treasury announced its plans to introduce a new additional duty on beers over 7.5% abv in strength and a reduced rate of duty on beers at a strength of 2.8% abv or below. The changes are expected in the next budget in March 2011.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged alcohol industry, alcohol pricing, association, british-beer, duty-on-beers, health, lower-strength, policy, production, real-difference, review, said-the-review
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The HM Treasury today announced plans to change beer duty for certain strengths as part of Government plans 'to review alcohol taxation to tackle problem drinking without unfairly penalising responsible drinkers, pubs and important local industries.' The Treasury announced its plans to introduce a new additional duty on beers over 7.5% abv in strength and a reduced rate of duty on beers at a strength of 2.8% abv or below. The changes are expected in the next budget in March 2011. See the HM Treasury Review of alcohol taxation November 2010 [pdf]
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Ahead of World AIDS Day, the International Federation of the Red Cross on Friday released a report (.pdf) calling for governments around the world to do more to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS among populations of injecting drug users (IDUs), the Associated Press reports (Heilprin, 11/25). “The United Nations estimates that approximately 15…
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Scientists from Germany, UK and Italy identify a molecular switch that leads to a sustained increase of calcium in nerve cells and plays a crucial role in the formation of memory and addictive behaviors. Bonn, 26th November 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Rural teens appear more likely than their urban peers to use prescription drugs for non-medical purposes, according to a report posted online that will appear in the March 2011 print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The non-medical use of prescription drugs is common among U.S…
Monday, November 29, 2010
According to a new UNODC report, amphetamine-type stimulants – or ATS – in particular methamphetamine, are widely used in East and South-East Asia and are now ranked among the top-three drugs of use in every single one of the 11 countries reviewed…
Monday, November 29, 2010
Abstract: Background: Diversion and injection of buprenorphine (Subutex®) and buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone®) have been well documented. Recent international research and local anecdotal evidence suggest that these medications are also used by other routes of administration, including smoking and snorting.Methods: A cross-sectional sample of 440 opioid substitution treatment (OST) clients was recruited through pharmacies and clinics in three Australian jurisdictions, and interviewed face-to-face using a structured questionnaire. Eligible participants were those aged 18 or over, who had resided in their home state for at least six months, and had been in their current treatment episode for at least 4 weeks
Monday, November 29, 2010
Abstract: Background: A variety of legal, social and logistical factors can prevent individuals from accessing formal needle exchange programmes. One common solution to this problem is satellite exchange, which involves collaborating with people who already use an exchange to deliver needles and other supplies to those unable to access the exchange. While this approach can be very successful, one potential problem is that those most willing to deliver needles to their peers are often members of social networks that are already well connected with the needle exchange, leading to duplication of effort.In this paper we describe a simple and novel method for identifying groups of people who are demonstrably in need of improved access to needles, and for re-targeting efforts to meet the needs of those people
Filed in Evidence Base
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Tagged ad-hoc-activity, among-injecting, clean-needles, common-solution, deliver-needles, homeless-youth, needle-exchange, people, social-networks, usa, well-as-needle
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Abstract: Background: In order to develop new ways to prevent Hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission amongst injecting drug users (IDUs), it is necessary to fully understand the dynamics of this disease.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Tagged acute-infection, decreased-risk, disease, dynamics, either-the-same, evidence, from-the-three, inclusion, population, rate, the-dynamics, viral-clearance, worldwide
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