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Fewer young people in treatment
[…] sought help for cannabis as their main problem drug, and more than 4,700 for alcohol, while ‘historic low’ figures for young people needing help for heroin or cocaine – 175 and 245 respectively – were offset by increasing numbers having problems with amphetamines, mephedrone and other new psychoactive substances. ‘Young people’s alcohol and drug […]
Stayin’ alive
[…] known as nitazenes, have adulterated a number of illicit drugs in the UK. It’s not clear exactly when this began, but evidence of them being present in cocaine and heroin was detected in 2021. Nitazenes are broadly equipotent to the fentanyls – or in layman’s terms, they’re many times stronger than heroin and morphine. […]
Media savvy
[…] exemplified by the late Eva Rausing, from a billionaire family, who only received a caution in 2008 for the possession of 2.5g of heroin and 60g of cocaine. Avinash Tharoor, Independent, 2 October In many ways, alcohol is the new tobacco. It is a multibillion-dollar international industry dealing with market-friendly governments, enjoying virtually unrestricted […]
‘Perfect storm’ in young people’s services
[…] in 2008-09. Most young people are in treatment for problems with cannabis (89 per cent), followed by alcohol (41 per cent), ecstasy (12 per cent) and powder cocaine (9 per cent). Further analysis of data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities found that the amount spent on young people’s substance services […]
Release’s take on the Government’s new Drug Strategy
[…] a world-class treatment and recovery system Achieve a shift in demand for recreational drugs The strategy rightly recognises that half of people dependent on opiates and crack cocaine are not in treatment, and that drug addiction co-occurs with a range of health inequalities, especially mental health issues, homelessness, and deprivation. An additional investment of […]
Too many women with drug issues are falling through the gaps
[…] part of every relationship I had because I had no idea how to have a healthy open relationship,” Tina said. Eventually she started using heroin and crack cocaine. Decades later, now in recovery and working as a volunteer in her drug treatment service, Tina identifies being around other women as important to her journey. […]
Linwood House
[…] established drug and alcohol detoxification and residential rehabilitation centre located in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The centre provides adult in-patient treatment for substance abuse and dependence including alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, heroin, opiates, legal highs and prescription drugs. Our therapy approach is focussed on helping you address your dependence on drugs or alcohol and empowering you […]
With You launches needle exchange search engine
[…] series of online harm reduction advice, including on safer injecting, responding to an overdose, using naloxone correctly, and safer use of other drugs such powder and crack cocaine and steroids. It also offers advice to those worried about someone else’s drug use. NSP services were ‘often the first step on the road to accessing […]
A third of 17-year-olds have tried cannabis
[…] at least once by the age of 17, according to research by UCL’s Centre for Longitudinal Studies, while 10 per cent have tried drugs such as MDMA, cocaine, LSD and amphetamines. More than half of 17-year-olds said they had engaged in binge drinking – defined as five or more drinks in one session – […]
Campaigners hail ‘monumental’ victory for US drug policy reform
[…] of all drugs for personal use. The state’s electorate voted ‘yes’ to Oregon Measure 110, which supports making ‘personal non-commercial possession of a controlled substance’ – including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine – subject to no more than a $100 fine, as well as establishing a treatment and recovery programme financed in part by revenue from the […]
Euro drug scene in ‘state of flux’
[…] the drug problem in a ‘state of flux’. Positive developments regarding more traditional drugs – such as fewer new heroin users, less injecting and declining use of cocaine and cannabis in some parts of the continent – continue to be offset by concerns around new psychoactive substances, says the agency’s annual report. Seventy-three new […]
European drug scene in a ‘state of flux’
[…] the drug problem in a ‘state of flux’. Positive developments regarding more traditional drugs – such as fewer new heroin users, less injecting and declining use of cocaine and cannabis in some parts of the continent – continue to be offset by concerns around new psychoactive substances, says the agency’s annual report. Seventy-three new psychoactive […]
Please Mr President
[…] magnitude of the offence’. Offences related to crack dealing, which has been largely confined to America’s black community, have historically attracted far more severe punishments than comparable crimes involving powder cocaine, and one in nine black children in the US now has an incarcerated parent, compared to one in 57 white children. More at globalgrind.com/endthewarondrugs
Media Savvy
[…] not to mention the money spent trying in vain to control them. Drug barons are always one step ahead of the law. Those looking for heroin or cocaine can easily obtain it, at a price. But how would we prevent the ugly side effects of legalisation, particularly a likely increase in experimentation, paranoia and […]
Government slashes maximum stake for Fixed Odds Betting Terminals
[…] been calling for a reduction in the maximum permitted stake for years (DDN, September 2014, page 6), with the controversial terminals frequently referred to as the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’. The move relates to ‘category B2’ FOBT machines, which are mainly located in betting shops, and follows a consultation with the public and the […]
The Fear Inside
[…] the increased use of new psychoactive substances; however heroin is still a significant concern and tends to be used for longer periods than other drugs such as cocaine and amphetamine. Additionally, prisoners often present with dual diagnosis and polysubstance addiction, which amplify problems associated with their wellbeing and raise concerns for staff and prison […]
Focus on Residential Treatment: Acer Unit
Acer’s inpatient detoxification and stabilisation service is for people who have a primary problem with: Opiate use, including methadone as well as heroin Stimulants such as crack cocaine Alcohol Polydrug use, relating to a combination of drugs and/or alcohol. The service admits adults (18-65 years) who have difficulty controlling or eliminating their drug or […]
Heroin deaths double in just four years
[…] (DDN, September, page 4). Although the government is keen to stress that the figures come against a background of falling rates of overall drug use, deaths involving cocaine also reached an all time high at 320 – up from 247 the previous year. Deaths involving amphetamine also reached their highest-ever level, and those involving […]
Heroin deaths double in just four years
[…] (DDN, September, page 4). Although the government is keen to stress that the figures come against a background of falling rates of overall drug use, deaths involving cocaine also reached an all time high at 320 – up from 247 the previous year. Deaths involving amphetamine also reached their highest-ever level, and those involving […]
The Third Way
[…] Szalavitz about her newly published thoughts on addiction. This is an extract from their conversation First Szalavitz described her own experiences, experimenting with psychedelics, then becoming addicted to cocaine and heroin. Johann Hari: ‘Usually when someone tells this publicly, they say “Society tells me what a disgusting wicked person I was – and then I […]
Media savvy
[…] 10 September Stephen Fry, BBC favourite and darling of the new Establishment, noisily confesses in a rather sad and attention-seeking new book to possession and use of cocaine in Buckingham Palace. The official penalty for this offence is seven years in jail and an unlimited fine. Could there be better proof that the elite […]
News in brief
[…] challenge was to ‘keep pace with this growing problem, while continuing to meet the demands of more established substance misuse problems associated with alcohol, heroin and crack cocaine’, said Owen Boden-Jones of CNWL’s club drug clinic. Report at www.rcpsych.ac.uk Hep feedback A global patient survey to reveal how hepatitis C is treated around the world […]
Loaded dice?
[…] it backed by well-funded advertising campaigns. Earlier this year there was a high-profile controversy around fixed odds betting terminals (FOBT) – frequently referred to as ‘the crack cocaine of gambling’ – installed in bookmakers, with MPs calling for a reduction in the maximum amount it was possible to gamble on them in one go, […]
Is anyone in?
[…] that had ‘an enormous problem with space for housing’, where local landlords were increasingly reluctant to take people on housing benefit. The city had 2,000 heroin and cocaine users and although drug-related deaths were now falling, it had had the unenviable title of being ‘the drugs death capital of Britain’ for some time. ‘A […]
Young drug and alcohol consumption continues to fall
[…] to try drinking and a third thought it OK to try smoking, only 9 per cent thought it was OK to try cannabis and 2 per cent cocaine. The figures are based on a survey of more than 5,000 pupils in almost 200 schools across England. According to the 2012/13 Crime Survey for England […]
DDN051003
[…] tried), amyl nitrites or ‘poppers’ (35 per cent), amphetamines (33 per cent), LSD (28 per cent) and ecstasy (20 per cent). Only 6 per cent had tried cocaine and 0.6 per cent had tried heroin. Females were almost as likely as males to have tried an illicit drug by age 18, and there were […]
Media Savvy
[…] is usually an expensive waste of time. But decriminalisation’s flaw is that it does nothing to undermine the criminal monopoly on the multi-billion-dollar drugs industry. The decriminalised cocaine consumed without criminal consequences in Portugal is still supplied by the gangs who cut off heads in Colombia. Only legalisation takes the business out of the […]
Primary position
[…] not get into this dependency on opiates, because it’s such a long-term trap,’ she says. ‘Some of the stimulants and novel psychoactives have their own problems but – even with cocaine – they’re things that you can walk away from a bit more easily than an opiate habit. So I’m hoping that we won’t be seeing families affected […]
West Africa ‘should decriminalise’ low-level drug offences
[…] a transit zone for drugs bound for Europe, it says, but a ‘significant zone of consumption and production’ in its own right. At an estimated $1.25bn, the scale of the cocaine trade alone ‘dwarfs the combined state budgets’ of many countries in the region, it adds, and while the region has a long history of cannabis production, mainly for local […]
News in brief
[…] More people than ever are buying drugs online, according the findings of the 2014 global drug survey, which questioned nearly 80,000 people from more than 40 countries. Cocaine was voted the worst value for money drug in the world, while MDMA was voted the best and alcohol remained ‘the biggest cause of concern among […]
Letters
[…] effective and decades-proven addiction recovery techniques. The beauty of such training is that, in addition to allowing an addict to cure him or herself of alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, crack, heroin, methadone and other already known addictions, it provides an immediate response to the ‘legal highs’ increasingly available and preferred because they avoid legal penalties. […]
Government announces tougher powers to seize cutting agents
[…] been approved following two consultations (DDN, August 2013, page 5). It will be an offence to be over the prescribed limit for eight illegal drugs – including cocaine, cannabis and MDMA – and eight legal ones, including methadone, diazepam and temazepam, with the regulations to come into force in the autumn. An agreed limit […]
The whole detox
[…] clients were also on a drug replacement therapy prescription, including detoxing from methadone. The drugs we detox, and which were included in the SWDAS study, are alcohol, cocaine/crack, heroin, cannabis, methadone, benzodiazepines, amphetamines, methamphetamine, GBL and ketamine. The Tauto-Mod system adopts a tautopathic approach, which involves the drug or substance that has caused the […]
Letters
[…] with the fabulous Dr John Ramsey, it’s been viewed almost 100,000 times. Since then we’ve done minutes with various experts on topics as diverse as what’s in cocaine, ecstasy pill testing, harm reduction for new drug virgins, PMA deaths, GHB and ketamine bladder. In 2014 we want to open the door to the huge […]
Stopping cannabis use cuts psychotic disorder risks
[…] 57 per cent up on the previous year, mainly driven by herbal cannabis seizures, the Home Office states. They also seized their largest ever quantity of powder cocaine, at more than 26 tonnes – a 75 per cent increase on 2022-23. The quantity of heroin seized, however, was down by 54 per cent to […]
Government to seek ACMD advice on reclassifying ketamine
[…] bladder removal in some cases, as well as issues with the kidneys and urinary tract. ‘Recent reports have shown ketamine is often an ingredient included in “pink cocaine”, the dangerous synthetic drug cocktail taken by users without knowing what mix of substances it contains,’ the Home Office adds. The Home Office has a statutory […]
Danger zone
[…] Drug deaths in England and Wales are up by 10 per cent on last year, to 5,448. This includes a more than 30 per cent rise in cocaine-related deaths – the 12th consecutive increase – as UNODC reports that already record levels of production of the drug are set to rise further, with a […]
A flexible approach to work
[…] not so all consuming. I’m referring primarily to heroin addiction. Many parallels can be drawn with other addictions like alcohol or benzos, but I recognise that crack cocaine presents a different experience. For me, crack was an extra, a payday treat (alright, mostly a daily treat), but one I would forgo in favour of […]
Media savvy
[…] shittier when you come round. But we’re all potential rats on the pleasure pedal and anyone who can’t stop repeatedly using a substance (sugar, credit card or cocaine), even when we know it’s not doing us any good, is an addict. Dr Phil Hammond, Telegraph, 18 February People are going to use drugs; no […]
Mental health-based prevention scheme for young people pilots in UK
[…] at the University of Sydney, the programme consists of interactive workshops delivered by trained facilitators over the course of a month, and ‘significantly reduced’ use of ecstasy, cocaine, alcohol and nicotine among 15-19-year-olds when implemented in Sydney schools, says LJMU. The three other research projects sharing the funding are evaluations of a theatre in […]
Number of young smokers at lowest recorded level
[…] and sends an alert to emergency services and naloxone carriers if an overdose is detected, and the use of virtual reality to help people overcome triggers for cocaine use. Around £12m in funding has been provided through the Addiction Healthcare Goals Programme, which is run by the Office for Life Sciences. ‘From wearable technology […]
More than 60 per cent of people dying a drug-related death in Scotland lived...
[…] health, Alice Wiseman. ‘However, they are working at maximum capacity. Take into account that we are currently supporting just 40 per cent of Newcastle’s opiate and crack cocaine users, and only 26 per cent of the people who would benefit from support for alcohol use, and you can see just how difficult the situation […]
‘Volatile’ global economy linked to patterns of drug use
[…] cannabis use Highly potent synthetic opioids, mainly nitazenes, were identified in many recent overdoses – around half of the deaths in Estonia and a third in Latvia. Cocaine was identified in polysubstance use in an increasing number of drug-induced deaths in some countries. The type of drug used and route of administration were identified […]
Glasgow consumption room to open in October
[…] with 1,172 drug misuse deaths registered in 2023. Opiates and opioids – including methadone – were implicated in 80 per cent of the deaths, benzodiazepines in 58 per cent, cocaine in 41 per cent and gabapentin and/or pregabalin in 38 per cent. People in the most deprived areas of Scotland are more than 15 times as […]
Social workers should be promoting tobacco harm reduction
[…] are an important step in keeping people alive, but the reality for most people is the drug that’s likely to kill them probably isn’t heroin or crack cocaine,’ he said. ‘Fifty per cent of our heroin users will not die from heroin, but 50 per cent of smokers will die because they smoke. So […]
Focus on harm reduction not ‘zero tolerance’, universities urged
[…] use. Almost one in five of respondents reported lifetime drug use, with the most commonly used substances in the previous twelve months including cannabis (53 per cent), cocaine (8 per cent), ketamine (6 per cent) and ecstasy (4 per cent). While some universities adopt a zero-tolerance approach characterised by a focus on enforcement action […]
Festival spirit
[…] they monitor and study the evolution of cultures, because a big part of planning a harm reduction intervention is considering the subculture you’re going to meet. Mixing cocaine and ketamine is very popular in Italy at the moment, for example.’ Portugal, meanwhile, was seeing ‘an increase in the consumption of cathinones, especially since the […]
Begin your healing journey with Gladstones Clinic
[…] and successfully treat addictions to substances as well as behavioral compulsions and disorders. Our detox and rehab programmes cater for alcohol, and drugs like heroin, ecstasy and cocaine as well as other common behavioral disorders like eating disorders, gambling addiction or sex and porn addiction. We provide the following residential detox and rehab programmes […]
Xylazine now in UK drug market, warn King’s College researchers
[…] UK’s first xylazine death – a 43-year-old man in Solihull. While xylazine is usually mixed with opioids it has also been detected ‘alongside stimulant drugs such as cocaine, and found in items sold as counterfeit codeine and diazepam tablets and even THC vapes’, says KCL. This means a far wider population than people who […]
Suspected Scottish drug deaths up by 10 per cent
[…] hearing from people using services suggests there is some way to go. We need to broaden treatment to address the needs of people experiencing harms related to cocaine, benzodiazepines and other drugs. People need to be empowered to make choices in terms of their treatment and their support. Our immediate concern is with local […]
Number of young people in treatment up by 10 per cent
[…] problems with benzodiazepines – down to 2 per cent from 3.7 per cent the previous year – but 9 per cent said they had problems with powder cocaine and 7 per cent with ecstasy. The number reporting problems with ketamine was up from 4.5 per cent to 5.8 per cent, and the number saying […]
Sharp rise in clinicians seeking poisoning information about nitrous oxide and ketamine
[…] treatment figures from OHID, more than 2,000 people entered treatment for problems with ketamine in 2022-23, five times the total from less than a decade ago (https://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/ten-per-cent-increase-in-people-entering-treatment-for- cocaine/). ‘The NPIS annual report serves as a comprehensive statement of NPIS’s activities, emphasising its pivotal role in managing poisoning cases, offering expert advice, and contributing to public health efforts,’ […]
Smoking-related hospital admissions up 5 per cent in a year
[…] people in treatment for drug or alcohol issues are smokers, with less than 5 per cent reporting having been offered a referral for smoking cessation services (https://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/ten-per-cent-increase-in-people-entering-treatment-for- cocaine/). ‘No other consumer product kills up to two-thirds of its users, which is why we have set out plans to stop children who turn 14 this […]
Open market
[…] was the only feasible crop to grow. As soon as the soldiers had moved on, he’d start planting coca in the next field. At the time, with cocaine use rocketing across much of the West, Power knew that what was happening in the Colombian field was indicative ofthe ‘relentless, circular, insane story’ of the […]
Average potency of cannabis resin in Europe up by 200 per cent in a...
[…] Malta and the Netherlands – have introduced or are planning to introduce approaches for regulating the supply of cannabis for recreational use, the report points out. ‘ Cocaine seizures might be grabbing the headlines, but trafficking of cannabis is just as important a threat,’ said Europol executive director Catherine De Bolle. ‘The cannabis trade […]
Early Intervention
[…] people in treatment said they had problems with alcohol. Meanwhile, among 17-year-olds in the UK, one in 10 will have used harder drugs such as ketamine and cocaine, according to University College London research. Fundamental determinants Wider determinants of health – such as housing, education and employment opportunities, social support, and personal resilience – […]
DDN_October_2023
[…] in treatment said they had problems with alcohol. Meanwhile, among 17-year- olds in the UK, one in 10 will have used harder drugs such as ketamine and cocaine, according to University College London research. FUNDAMENTAL DETERMINANTS Wider determinants of health â such as housing, education and employment opportunities, social support, and personal resilience â […]
International aid money being spent on punitive drug control, says HRI report
[…] to be harmful and ineffective,’ added chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark. ‘It is particularly abhorrent that development assistance is applied to so-called narcotics control activities in countries which continue to execute people for drug-related offences.’ Aid for the war on drugs at hri.global/publications/aid-for-the-war-on-drugs/ Cocaine crop
Humankind approaches to drug-related offending and dual diagnosis showcased in first national drug strategy...
[…] drug-related offences. Since September 2022, the Calderdale community has benefited from ‘Fine Line’. The programme offers a bespoke support pathway for people arrested for offences related to cocaine. Anyone who has a positive test is directed to a required assessment with Calderdale Recovery Steps. The support service then determines the most appropriate support for […]
Nurses at drug and alcohol recovery service in Rochdale and Oldham nominated for national...
[…] a male 58-year-old client at ROAR said the nurses had helped him accept help for his substance use. “I have had substance use issues for over 15 years. I’ve used illicit substances like heroin, crack cocaine, diazepam and pregabalin. I am currently homeless after being evicted from my previous residence,” said David. “I haven’t liked engaging with services in the past. I have seen the nurses at Turning […]