The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is offering free drink spiking testing kits to all patients attending their Emergency or Sexual Health Departments – BBC . The testing k its can detect a range of substances commonly associated with drink spiking , including ketamine, GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate), cocaine and amphetamine.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Background: The risk environment framework provides a valuable but under-utilised heuristic for understanding environmental vulnerability to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers. Brothels have been shown to be safer than street-based sex work, with higher rates of consistent condom use and lower HIV prevalence. While entertainment venues are also assumed to be safer than street-based sex work, few studies have examined environmental influences on vulnerability to HIV in this context
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Abstract Aim: To assess the short-term temporal relationship between emergency department (ED) attendances for acute alcohol problems and assaults reported to police. Design: Cross-sectional time series analysis. Setting: Population of New South Wales (NSW), Australia between 2003 and 2008
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged 100-attendances, 15-24-year-old, 15-24-year-olds, acute-alcohol, assault, australia, cross-sectional, interest-aged, magnitude, public-hospital, relationship, south-wales, week-controlled, weekly-increase
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ABSTRACT: Aims: In Brazil, a new law introduced in 2008 has lowered the blood alcohol concentration limit for drivers from 0.06 to 0.02, but the effectiveness in reducing traffic accidents remains uncertain. This study evaluated the effects of this enactment on road traffic fatalities and injuries
Abstract Aims To examine the associations between socioeconomic characteristics and driving under the influence of drugs (DUID), and to elaborate determinants of drugged driving.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged all-substance, analyses-were, driving-while, duid, educational, influence, main-activity, strongest, substance, substance-use, the-strongest, using-logistic
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Members of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) have received a report from the Mayor on the proposal of a alcohol sobriety scheme for London: 'The compulsory alcohol sobriety scheme is an enforcement approach providing specific powers for the court to order sobriety as an order for alcohol related violence offences. The Mayor is tabling an amendment to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill for changes in the current law to enable the courts to make this order.
Filed in Guidance, UK Alcohol Policy, crime
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Also tagged binge drinking, crime, discretion, domestic-violence, Guidance, london, mayor, metropolitan, police-reform, policy, sobriety-scheme, social, such-as-custody, use-compulsory
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A policy paper from the Centre for Mental Health has made recommendations to improve the development of alcohol interventions for offenders: A Label for Exclusion: Support for alcohol-misusing offenders The report identifies areas and practical examples of how, in a changing and uncertain policy and commissioning landscape, the joint commissioning and delivery of alcohol interventions for offenders in the community might be productively developed. A press release states: Offenders who misuse alcohol do not get enough support to turn their lives around, according to research published by Centre for Mental Health
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Christmas time is the time for mulled wine. And that tastes best at a Christmas market
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged car-drivers, checks-on-car, christmas, device, drink, driving-checks, the-device, the-police, their-drink, time, traffic-check
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Legislation to introduce a 'below cost ban' on alcohol may soon be announced as part of Governmernt plans to 'tackle binge drinking'.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
The number of under-18s admitted to hospital due to drinking increased by 32% between 2002 and 2007; an average of 36 children a day admitted for alcohol-related conditions.
Filed in Guidance, Harm Reduction, UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol campaigns, alcohol-concern, alcohol-remains, charity, further-reports, Guidance, health, long-as-alcohol, ludicrously, numbers, policy, research, young-drinkers
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