| The President's National Drug Control Strategy |
| The success of the President’s National Drug Control Strategy demonstrates that a robust drug control policy can achieve measurable progress in reducing drug abuse. 59-page PDF [White House, USA] |
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| Hidden Harm Three Years On: Realities, Challenges and Opportunities |
| This report, in keeping with the original Hidden Harm report, focuses on the lives and experience of a large, diverse and vulnerable group of children. 123-page PDF [Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, UK] |
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| Evaluation of Drug Interventions Programme pilots for children and young people |
| Arrest referral, drug testing and Drug Treatment and Testing Requirements. 94-page PDF [Home Office, UK] |
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| Predictive factors for illicit drug use among young people |
| A literature review. 56-page PDF [Home Office, UK] |
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| Risk, protective factors and resilience to drug use |
| Identifying resilient young people and learning from their experiences. 98-page PDF [Home Office, UK] |
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| Identifying and exploring young people’s experiences of risk, protective factors and resilience to drug use |
| This report highlights key findings from a literature review, analysis of the 2003 Offending Crime and Justice Survey (OCJS) and a qualitative study of the views and experiences of a sample of young people from the OCJS who could be considered resilient to drug use. 14-page PDF [Home Office, UK] |
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| Assessing Young People for Substance Misuse |
| Developed for service managers and practitioners delivering specialist substance misuse services to children and young people under 18 years, this guidance describes the framework for specialist substance misuse assessment, how specialist misuse assessment dovetails with the Common Assessment Framework (DfES, 2006) for children and young people, the context of undertaking an assessment and care planning arrangements [NTA, UK] |
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| Fact Research Guide |
| The Fact Research Guide contains headline statistics and links, along with some commentary and critique, on a variety of statistics drug related topics [Transform Drug Policy Foundation, UK] |
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| SAMHSA FY 2008 Budget |
| Congressional Justification Estimates [SAMHSA] |
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| UNODC launches updated multilingual dictionary of drugs under international control |
| The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime today launched an updated multilingual dictionary of all drugs controlled under the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances [UNODC] |
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| The DASIS Report: Primary Alcohol Admissions Aged 21 or Older: Alcohol Only vs. Alcohol plus a Secondary Drug, 2005 |
| About 374,000 adult admissions (aged 21 or older) to substance abuse treatment reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) reported alcohol as their only substance of abuse and 289,000 adult admissions reported alcohol plus a secondary drug [SAMHSA, USA] |
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| Methamphetamines Position Paper |
| Tackling the methamphetamine issue will require continued support of current initiatives, together with further efforts to improve the capacity of the health and law enforcement sectors to respond to methamphetamine- specific issues. 20-page PDF [ANCD, Australia] |
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| EMCDDA publishes Country situation summaries for 28 countries |
| Country situation summaries provide a quick, structured overview of the trends and characteristics of national drug problems [EMCDDA] |
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| Choosing Health in the South East: Alcohol |
| As part of the Choosing Health series, this report presents data on alcohol in the South East. The main purpose of the report is to describe the pattern and impact of alcohol consumption in the South East region. 48-page PDF [South East Public Health Observatory, UK] |
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