It has been announced that local authorities across England will benefit from an extra £421 million government funding through to 2025 to improve drug and alcohol addiction treatment and recovery.

The extra funding will enable the creation of over 50,000 high-quality places for drug and alcohol treatment.

The funding will enable local authorities to:

• recruit more staff to work with people with drug and alcohol problems
• support more prison leavers into treatment and recovery services
• invest in enhancing the quality of treatment they provide - in turn helping make streets safer by...

The VNGOC together with NYNGOC and the UNODC Civil Society Unit is organizing an online side event in the margins of the 2023 ECOSOC Partnership Forum on 31 January 2023 at 8.30 AM. The event is titled: The central role of civil society in drug policies, COVID-19 and achieving the 2030 Agenda

Background

Novel public health interventions are needed to address the toxic drug supply and meet the needs of people who use drugs amidst the overdose crisis. Safer supply – low-barrier distribution of pharmaceutical grade substances – has been implemented in some jurisdictions to provide safer alternatives to the unregulated drug supply, yet no studies to date have explored professional stakeholder perspectives on this approach.

Methods

Purposive sampling was used to recruit professional stakeholders (n = 17) from four locations in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia...

Фон

Утверждается, что междисциплинарное сотрудничество (т. е. когда различные дисциплины работают скоординированно и взаимозависимо для достижения общих целей) дает более высокую эффективность команды, чем междисциплинарные подходы (т. е. когда различные дисциплины работают параллельно в пределах своих профессиональных границ) в условиях соматического здравоохранения. Тем не менее, отсутствуют исследования междисциплинарных подходов к лечению расстройств, связанных с употреблением алкоголя (AUD), госпитализированных пациентов, поскольку эти типы подходов все еще необычны. Это исследование...

Среднеамериканский центр передачи технологий лечения зависимостей (MATTC) в партнерстве с Сетью реагирования на опиоиды этнических сообществ в Миссури, Форумом по политике в отношении наркомании и Сетью реагирования на опиоиды (ORN в штатах Айова, Канзас, Миссури и Небраска) перевели 5 различных научно обоснованных профилактических продуктов «Образовательные материалы по профилактике употребления опиоидов»  на 12 различных языков, и обеспечить их соответствие культурным особенностям, включая арабский, боснийский, бирманский, дари, французский, мандаринский диалект китайского языка, пушту...

The connection between homelessness and substance use is well recognised and an issue that impacts countries around the world. People who experience substance use related issues and homelessness are extremely vulnerable to a range of harms and can find it challenging to access appropriate support that will adequately meet their needs.

In order to address the often-complex issues this population experience, it is important the workforce has appropriate knowledge about the challenges people are facing, the different forms of support and targeted interventions that are available, and means of...

Executive summary

The 10-year UK Government plan to combat illegal drugs sets out how we are doing more than ever to cut off the supply of drugs by criminal gangs and give people with a drug addiction a route to a productive and drug-free life. Underpinned by record investment of over £3 billion in the next three years, we will reduce drug-related crime, death, harm and overall drug use.

National and local partners will focus on delivering three strategic priorities:

1. Break drug supply chains – Home Office and Ministry of Justice
2. Deliver a world-class treatment and recovery system –...