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‘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 […]
‘Cheap and easy’ synthetic drugs transforming markets, says UNODC
[…] already a major producer of methamphetamine. There are also signs that the war in Ukraine – which has already displaced some traditional trafficking routes for heroin and cocaine – could be triggering an expansion in the manufacture of synthetic drugs in the region. For the first time latest trends are available in an interactive, […]
Female Friendly
[…] long, and the data presents a worrying picture. Drug-related deaths among women have been increasing for more than ten successive years – for example there were 195 cocaine deaths in 2021 compared to 19 in 2010. Learning from research, sharing practice through the Women’s Treatment Working Group and hearing what the women who come […]
Harm Reduction Information Hub for North Yorkshire
[…] www.drinkdrughub.co.uk, presents an extensive but easy to use database of articles, videos and fact sheets. Resources cover everything from alcohol and prescription medications to illicit drugs like cocaine and heroin. Anyone in North Yorkshire can also attend free training or awareness events, and practitioners can discover learning opportunities provided by other agencies across our […]
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Government pledges housing support cash for areas most in need
[…] 2008-09. Around half of all young people in treatment had issues with alcohol, while almost 90 per cent reported problems with cannabis. Problems with ecstasy and powder cocaine stood at 8 per cent each, while the number of young people seeking help for heroin was below 0.5 per cent. Young people’s substance misuse: treatment […]
Number of people in alcohol treatment up by 10 per cent
[…] previous year. The number of adults entering treatment was 133,704, which was relatively unchanged from the previous two years. The number of people starting treatment for powder cocaine was up by 11 per cent to 21,298 – slightly below 2019-20’s peak figure of 21,396 – while the number entering treatment for crack was at […]
Ecstasy use halved during pandemic
[…] to 4.7 per cent. The reduced rates of use were likely the result of restrictions on social contact during the COVID-19 pandemic, says ONS, although rates of cocaine use were unchanged. Just over 9 per cent of all adults and almost 19 per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds reported last-year use of any drug […]
Sharing the Love
[…] the balance of harm reduction, treatment and recovery and the sharp increase in drug-related deaths ‘comes back to abandoning harm reduction’. The purity of drugs had increased, cocaine-related deaths had risen significantly, and Dame Carol Black’s review showed that ‘money alone will not fix this’. ‘We have to redesign services to make them more […]
A Nose for Duty
[…] from the Inspectorate, for which they must have completed searches of a minimum of 30 people, and the development training is ongoing. They learn to search for cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, cannabis and NPS (mainly spice). Watching the dogs and handlers train together demonstrates the remarkable bond between the two. Afterwards, while the dogs are […]
Welsh drug deaths up by almost half
[…] they are more than five times more likely to occur in those living in the most deprived areas in Wales compared to the least deprived.’ Deaths involving cocaine had more than doubled over the last five years, he added, while the increase in deaths involving benzodiazepines was also concerning. ‘Wales operates a number of […]
Favourable conditions
[…] to play on, lots to eat, lots of other rats to play with or breed with. When those rats were exposed to water laced with heroin or cocaine, as per Bruce Alexander’s experiment in the 1970s, they almost never used it, compared to the experiment using a single rat left alone, with no rat […]
Getting real
[…] of remaining hydrated – a particular feature of dance drug use. In this context, ketamine appeared to be an almost dream drug that managed to offer the cocaine-like stimulation, the opiate-like calming, and the cannabis-like imagery, while at the same time providing a full-on dissociative and hallucinogenic experience, with no apparent disadvantages or collateral […]
Scotland sees slight fall in drug-related deaths
[…] just 191 in 2015 – an increase mostly driven by ‘street benzos’ like etizolam, says NRS. Gabapentin and/or pregabalin were implicated in just under 475 deaths, and cocaine in more than 400. David Liddell: Statistics represent ‘ongoing systemic failure’ The statistics were a ‘record of personal, community and national loss,’ said Scottish Drugs Forum […]
Almost half of MDMA sold at festivals last year was fake
[…] using less ecstasy since the beginning of the pandemic (https://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/europeans-using-more-cannabis-since-pandemic/). There have also been reports of traffickers into the UK focusing on smuggling more lucrative drugs like cocaine and heroin, for which the penalties are the same as the class A MDMA. The Loop recently launched the UK’s first ever Home Office-licensed drug testing […]
British Columbia launches ‘healthcare over handcuffs’ decriminalisation experiment
[…] seized, with police instead offering information on treatment and other support ‘with referrals when requested’. The exemption will cover opioids including heroin and fentanyl, powder and crack cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine. It will still be illegal to possess the drugs in schools, childcare facilities or airports, however, and the province will work with health […]
Scotland sees fall in injecting levels
[…] that has been largely unchanged since the start of the decade but is around a third of the level reported in 2006-07. The proportion of people reporting cocaine as their main drug, meanwhile, was 18 per cent, a percentage that has ‘increased sharply’ since 2015-16, albeit with a slight fall after 2019-20. Around two […]
US drug deaths up by 15 per cent
[…] compared to just over 70,000 in 2020. There were more than 71,000 deaths involving fentanyl, as well as almost 33,000 involving methamphetamine and just over 24,500 involving cocaine – all up on the previous year – with overdose deaths increasing in every US state except Hawaii. The Biden administration recently launched its first drug strategy, […]
Soapbox
[…] countries have a lower level of contact with drug treatment services than either Sweden, known for its zero tolerance drug policies, or the UK, where heroin and cocaine attract the highest criminal justice penalty. On the basis of these data it would appear that there is no simple association between restrictive drug laws and […]
Soapbox
[…] countries have a lower level of contact with drug treatment services than either Sweden, known for its zero tolerance drug policies, or the UK, where heroin and cocaine attract the highest criminal justice penalty. On the basis of these data it would appear that there is no simple association between restrictive drug laws and […]
Healthy exchange
[…] were stable, although four times higher in London than elsewhere in England and Wales, and there had been spikes in transmission of HIV, probably related to crack cocaine and increased risk behaviour. Needle and syringe sharing had declined overall, but the changing patterns could increase risk among different populations, so it was important to […]
A New Model
[…] illegal drugs combined. ‘If you’re going to argue – as many bright people have – that we should have corporations like the tobacco industry sell methamphetamine and cocaine, you should explain why those drugs wouldn’t then be up there at the top of that list.’ Reducing demand In terms of reducing demand, while it […]
The Losing Hand
[…] clinics (see news, page 5 ). Ritchie had started gambling while at school, using his dinner money to play on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBT), dubbed the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’. Just seven years later he took his own life, with his parents arguing that he was addicted to ‘products licensed by the start’. Last […]
Crunch time
[…] help’, he said. It was important to ‘not lose too much sleep’ over the launch’s punitive framing and instead ‘focus on the good stuff’. Talk of middle-class cocaine use might have accounted for much of the media coverage, but ‘if you look at the money there’s about £5m committed to that, and £700m on […]
Out of Harm’s Way
[…] people close to me with their challenges around substance misuse. This was particularly driven by the arrival of cheap brown powder heroin in the ’80s and crack cocaine in the ’90s. My thoughts and feelings about drug and alcohol treatment at that time included anger and frustration, and of course compassion for the people […]
Europeans using more cannabis since pandemic
[…] help paint a more detailed, realistic and timely picture of drug use and drug markets’, says EMCDDA. The most commonly used drugs after cannabis were MDMA and cocaine (35 per cent of respondents in each case), followed by amphetamines (28 per cent), LSD (20 per cent), NPS (16 per cent) and ketamine (13 per […]
Government announces ‘largest ever’ increase in treatment funding
[…] possible.’ Statement from André Gomes, Laura Garius, Kirstie Douse and Claire Robbins, Release ‘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. Investment in improving the […]
Safe as houses
[…] well with primary healthcare services during times of crisis. For now, James is doing very well. He has drawn strength from the peer support he finds in Cocaine Anonymous meetings, having a sponsor, studying the ‘big book’ and talking with others who share his experiences and can offer him support. He has recently completed […]
Deaths in treatment up by almost 30 per cent
[…] for problems with opiates, and almost 30 per cent for alcohol. Unlike previous years there was a fall in the number of people entering treatment for crack cocaine, used either with or without opiates, with the number at its lowest level since 2016-17. There was a 5 per cent increase in people entering treatment […]
Just 25 per cent think regular cannabis use is ‘very harmful’
[…] criminal matter, however, compared to a third of over-65s. People were also asked to class the substances in terms of their impact on wider society, with crack cocaine and heroin considered the most harmful and nitrous oxide and cannabis the least. The figures ‘highlight the extent to which the government’s rhetoric and policies are […]
Media Savvy
[…] psychological problems as a result of substance misuse, who prostitute themselves or steal to maintain their habit, who sacrifice families and prospects upon the altar of cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy and heroin, who keep the dealers in business including those at the school gates. Ann Widdecombe, Express, 21 August If you hit hard times, the […]
PHE issues warning after sharp rise in overdoses
[…] extra cautious about new suppliers and to make sure they have more naloxone with them than usual. It had also received earlier anecdotal information about possible crack cocaine contamination, it said. ‘We are urging drug users to be extra careful following reports of a sharp rise in the number of overdoses potentially connected to […]
Black people six times more likely to be stopped and searched for drugs
[…] more than twice as likely to be charged if any drugs are found, it says. In 2009/10, 78 per cent of black people caught in possession of cocaine by the Metropolitan Police were charged and 22 per cent given cautions, while among white people 56 per cent were given cautions and just 44 per cent […]
We’ll publish drug strategy by end of the year, government says
[…] the meantime the government has announced that it will encourage an increase in the use of drug testing on arrest in a number of police forces, where cocaine or opiates are ‘suspected’ to have contributed to the offence. There will also be ‘clear and meaningful consequences for all those who misuse drugs’, it says, […]
DDN July_August2021
[…] mental health needs. Opiate substitute stabilisation, with alcohol detox where indicated Methadone to buprenorphine switching, including from high-doses of methadone Methadone to long-acting opioid transfer GBL/GHB detoxificationCrack/ Cocaine detoxificationKetamine detoxificationSynthetic cannabinoids detoxification As well as alcohol and opioid detoxification, our service provides: BROOK DRIVE To find out more call us today on 020 7820 […]
Cannabis four times stronger than 25 years ago
[…] document states that drug markets ‘swiftly resumed operations’ after the initial disruption caused by COVID-19, demonstrating traffickers’ ‘ability to adapt quickly to changed environments and circumstances’. Diversified cocaine supply chains into Europe were ‘pushing prices down and quality up’, it added, while major online ‘dark web’ drug markets were now worth upwards of $315m […]
Government consults on proposals for new drug-driving offences
[…] drivers who had taken ‘properly prescribed’ medicines would not be penalised. The consultation sets out a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to driving under the influence of cannabis, MDMA, cocaine, ketamine, LSD, methamphetamine, benzoylecgonine, heroin and diamorphine, with limits set at the ‘lowest level at which a valid and reliable analytical level can be obtained’ but […]
DDN March2021
[…] at least once by the age odf 17, according to research by UCLbs Centre for Longitudinal Studies, while 10 per cent have tried drugs such ads MDMA, cocaine, LSD and amphetamines. More than half of 17-dyear-olds said they had engaged in binged drinking while 13 pder cent reported regular drinking, defined as six or […]
Young people’s drug use could be 20 per cent higher than estimated
[…] of Bristol researchers matched data from questionnaires conducted when participants were 24 to corresponding national data and found that differences in lifetime use of cannabis and powder cocaine between the two was 23.2 per cent and 16.9 per cent respectively. Researchers also found that while just over 32 per cent of participants to the […]
Review of the year 2020
[…] US presidential election also sees a ‘monumental victory’ for drug policy reform as Oregon votes in favour of decriminalising personal possession of all drugs, including heroin and cocaine. A year on from the launch of Middlesbrough’s heroin-assisted treatment pilot, clinical team lead Daniel Ahmed hails its ‘dramatic impact’, with 98 per cent attendance rates […]
Another record high for Scots drug deaths
[…] total, a higher rate than any previous year. Street benzodiazepines were implicated in 64 per cent of the deaths, gabapentin and/or pregabalin in 35 per cent and cocaine in 29 per cent, again all more than in any previous year. Scottish Drugs Forum CEO David Liddell The statistics were a ‘grievous reminder of the […]
Home secretary ‘minded to’ explicitly exempt poppers from Psychoactive Substances Act
[…] April 2016, page 4). A 2018 Court of Appeal ruling, however, stated that substances that only have an indirect psychoactive effect could still be covered by the legislation. The home secretary’s letter also seeks the ACMD’s advice on the drivers of increasing powder cocaine use among young people and drug sales on the ‘dark net’.
Bill Nelles – Doctor Wars (part one)
[…] ’70s to mid ’80s brought together psychiatrists who hated prescribing, some of the private doctors who could still prescribe some opiates and opioids (but not heroin or cocaine), and the very few doctors who did still prescribe injectables to the few. They were often vicious and sometimes very personal – some moderating influence came […]