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Ok - first test of the new alert system. New in the SAS library:
Alcohol Related Assault
Findings from the British Crime Survey
UK
An Exploration of the Role of Substance Misuse Nurses in Scotland
EIU report on the current situation with regard to the role of nurses in addiction treatment. Keywords: Scotland, nurses, nursing, addiction treatment.
SCOT
Cannabis Potency
EMCDDA Report on cannabis potency in Europe
INT
Changing Habits
Audit Commissions report on commissioning community drug treatment services. Keywords: commissioning, treatment services, drug services, evaluation, planning.
UK
Changing Lives
2004 HM Govt. progress report on implementation of British drug policy. Keywords: British drug policy, progress, strategy.
UK
Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2004
ISD report on drug misuse statistics in Scotland during 2004. Keywords: statistics, Scotland, database.
SCOT
Drug Misuse: Issues and Strategies
Scottish Executive overview of current Scottish trends and progress on implementing the Scottish strategy
SCOT
Drug Treatment and Testing Orders
Final report on the evaluation of the DTTO experiment in England & Wales
UK
Drug Treatment and Testing Orders: Evaluation of the Scottish Pilots
Combined report on the evaluation of two DTTO pilots in Scotland - Glasgow and Fife. Keywords: DTTO, Scotland, Evaluation, criminal justice, coercion.
SCOT
EMCDDA: The State of the Drugs Problem in Europe
2005 Annual Report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Keywords: drug trends, Europe, trafficking, prevalence
INT
Establishing Safe Injection Facilities in Canada
Report from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network on legal & ethical issues
INT
Genetic Contributions to Addiction
Short monograph on addiction genetics from John Crabbe of Portland Alcohol Research Center. Keywords: genetics, biology, inheritance, addiction, biological, disease
INT
Guidelines for the evaluation of outreach work
An EMCDDA manual for outreach practitioners
INT
Hepatitis C and Injecting Drug Use
EMCDDA monograph on hepatitis C and the spread of blood-borne diseases. Keywords: hepatitis C, blood-borne disease, injecting, needle sharing.
INT
National Needs Assessment for Tier 4 Drug Services in England
NTA needs assessment reporty on residential rehabilitation services in England. Keywords: residential rehabilitation, in-patient, detoxification, needs assessment, tier 4.
UK
Neuroscience of Psychoactive Substance Use and Dependence
World Health Organisation report on the biological and genetic issues associated with addiction and dependence. Keywords: genetic inheritance, biology, biological, disease, neuroscience
INT
Opiate Treat6ment Index
Short screening instrument for assessing opiate treatment needs and associated health and criminality issues. Keywords: assessment, dignosis, diagnostic, addiction treatment, instrument.
INS
Reducing the Impact of Local Drug Markets
EIU research report on the evidence of effectiveness of interventions to reduce the impact of low level drug trafficking. Keywords: effectiveness, black market, trafficking, communities, prevention, policing.
SCOT
Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2005
Complete text of the 2005 INCB report in 6 parts
Routes into Treatment: Drugs and Crime
Turning Point report on the trend towards provision of drug treatment largely through criminal justice interventions. Keywords: DTTO, criminal justice, coercion.
UK
The Drug Treatment and Testing Order: Early Lessons
Report by the National Audit Office on the effectiveness of DTTOIs. Does not include the Scottish pilots. Keywords: DTTO, drug crime, criminal justice, effectiveness
UK
The Impact and Effectiveness of Mandatory Drug Testing in Prisons
Home Office Report on the impact of MDT in the English prison system. Keywords: MDT, mandatory drug testing, prisons.
UK
I've not worked out yet how to include the actual URLs for each item but you should be able to find them all without too much bother. Most of them are in the Downloads section and the search facility seems to work OK now (I know it was a bit of a pig before!).
http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/sections/scot-ad/library.php
Rowdy Yates
Senior Research Fellow
Scottish Addiction Studies
Department of Applied Social Science
University of Stirling
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