News Archives - Drink and Drugs News

Public health bodies call for decriminalisation of drugs

DDN - June 16, 2016 0

National News July/August 2016

DDN - July 8, 2016 0

Drug-related in Scotland

DDN - September 7, 2015 0

Sharp rise in Scottish drug-related hospital admissions

DDN - November 3, 2014 0

Public health bodies call for decriminalisation of drugs

DDN - July 5, 2016 0

‘New pledges’ announced as part of alcohol deal

DDN - August 4, 2014 0

News in brief

DDN - November 3, 2013 0

US signals softer stance on drug sentencing for non-violent offenders

DDN - September 2, 2013 0

Government announces new drug powers as Baker replaces Browne

DDN - November 4, 2013 0

Fewer young people in treatment

DDN - January 13, 2014 0

Local news from the substance misuse field

DDN - March 9, 2015 0

Ireland considers consumption rooms and decriminalisation for personal use

DDN - December 9, 2015 0

News in brief

DDN - May 8, 2013 0

Local news

DDN - May 6, 2016 0

CMO toughens alcohol guidelines

DDN - February 3, 2016 0

Government to consider benefit sanctions for refusing treatment

DDN - July 29, 2015 0

NICE calls for more needle exchange support for steroid users

DDN - May 6, 2014 0

Doctors: e-cigarettes ‘no gateway’ to smoking

DDN - May 6, 2016 0

Black people six times more likely to be stopped and searched...

DDN - August 27, 2013 0

National news from the substance misuse field

DDN - September 7, 2015 0

Government unveils major prison reforms

DDN - May 19, 2016 0

Scots record second-highest number of drug deaths

DDN - September 2, 2013 0

Government to opt out of EU directive on new drugs

DDN - February 10, 2014 0

Legal high deaths ‘could’ top heroin deaths, says CSJ

DDN - August 21, 2014 0

Drug services see reduction in frontline staff

DDN - March 9, 2015 0

Local news from the substance misuse field

DDN - September 7, 2015 0

£267m treatment funding to be rolled out next April

DDN - November 14, 2023 0

UN highlights ‘alarming’ rise in new drugs

DDN - July 8, 2013 0

Scots hit treatment targets early

DDN - October 1, 2012 0

News Focus

DDN - April 15, 2013 0

Government accepts ACMD’s ketamine recommendation

DDN - February 13, 2014 0

Put health warnings on all alcohol labels, say MPs

DDN - August 21, 2014 0

More than half of services see reduction in frontline staff

DDN - February 12, 2015 0

Local news from the substance misuse field

DDN - July 6, 2015 0

Decriminalisation would mean global gains, say medics

DDN - March 31, 2016 0

Call for new drugs policy organisation

DDN - January 15, 2013 0

Minimum pricing fails to make Queen’s Speech

DDN - May 10, 2013 0

Government announces tougher powers to seize cutting agents

DDN - April 7, 2014 0

No apparent link between ‘toughness’ of drug laws and use, says...

DDN - October 31, 2014 0

DrugScope closes

DDN - March 31, 2015 0

E-cigarettes ‘safer than smoking’

DDN - September 7, 2015 0

Media savvy

DDN - June 6, 2016 0

Unions criticise services handover to third sector

DDN - June 29, 2012 0

Fewer heroin and crack users, says NTA

DDN - March 11, 2013 0

News in brief

DDN - July 8, 2013 0

News in brief

DDN - January 13, 2014 0

Time to change direction on drugs

DDN - June 2, 2014 0

‘Toughness’ of drug laws no deterrent, says Home Office

DDN - December 1, 2014 0

Organisations working with offenders at increasing financial risk

DDN - May 5, 2015 0

Medications in drug treatment: tackling the risks to children

DDN - December 2, 2015 0

Fifth anthrax case for UK

DDN - November 2, 2012 0

Media Savvy… Who’s been saying what?

DDN - April 15, 2013 0

New psychoactive drug deaths double

DDN - September 2, 2013 0

A third of services report funding decrease

DDN - February 13, 2014 0

Scots drug deaths fall

DDN - August 21, 2014 0

Homepage News Tab

DDN - March 9, 2015 0

Substance-related bereavement

DDN - July 6, 2015 0

Services continue to feel cuts pain

DDN - April 11, 2016 0

News in brief

DDN - January 15, 2013 0

European drug scene in a ‘state of flux’

DDN - May 28, 2013 0

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