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LATE OPENING FOR PUBS AND BARS AGGRAVATES ALCOHOL-RELATED HARM
UK research is inconclusive, but international research from developed nations reviewed for a
national US task force supports the belief that increasing on-licence opening hours leads to more
drinking and more alcohol-related harm.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Hahn_RA_1.txt
WEEKEND ALCOHOL SALES EQUALS MORE WEEKEND ALCOHOL-RELATED HARM
International research from developed nations reviewed for a national US task force offers some
support for the belief that allowing or disallowing Saturday or Sunday alcohol sales affects
drinking and alcohol-related harm.
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Middleton_JC_1.txt
NALOXONE EMPOWERS CARERS TO SAVE LIVES OF OVERDOSING HEROIN USERS
Up to 18 lives were known (and more perhaps unrecorded) to have been saved after the National
Treatment Agency in England piloted training for the carers of opiate users on how to administer the
overdose-reversing drug naloxone. But how does catering for relapse in this way square with the
optimism of the recovery movement?
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=NTA_21.txt
NALOXONE-BASED OVERDOSE PREVENTION TRAINING SPREAD SLOWLY IN ENGLAND
After being initiated in London, training for addiction treatment staff in managing opiate overdose
using naloxone cascaded to other staff and to patients at a disappointingly slow pace; on average
each clinician trainee trained one drug user every 11 months. Is this a sign of the low priority
given to overdose prevention?
http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Mayet_S_5.txt
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