Ian Smith Drug Reference

Library

Update 16

January 2010

Latest publications in the field of substance use:

 Official publications & guidance

 New online resources
 Recent research & reports
 Conference

John Brooke
Librarian, Ian Smith Drug Reference Library
Workforce Development & Training Unit
Prestwich Hospital
Bury New Road
Prestwich
Manchester
M25 3BL
Tel 0161 772 3537
Mail to: john.brooke@gmw.nhs.uk
Alcohol Concern
1. Future proof: can we afford the cost of drinking too much?
http://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/files/20091030_190736_Future
%20Proof%202009.pdf

2. Off measure: how we underestimate the amount we drink

http://www.cph.org.uk/showPublication.aspx?pubid=607

Alcohol Education and Research Council

Why do people drink at home? An exploration of the perceptions
of adult home consumption practice
http://www.aerc.org.uk/insightPages/libraryIns0068.html

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for

Injury Prevention and Control [USA]
Screening and brief interventions for unhealthy alcohol use
http://www.cdc.gov/InjuryResponse/alcohol-screening/pdf/SBI-
Implementation-Guide-a.pdf

Centre for Public Health Research

Integrated care pathway for alcohol services: from guidance to
local delivery
http://www.nwph.net/champs/Publications/Forms/DispForm.aspx?
ID=86&Source=http://www.nwph.net/publications.aspx&RootFold
er=http://www.nwph.net/champs/Publications/Alcohol

Department of Health
Guidance on the consumption of alcohol by children and young
people: a report by the Chief Medical Officer
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/Pu
blicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_110258

Drug and Alcohol Findings

4 Hot topics for the New Year
http://findings.org.uk/hot_topics.htm

Faces and Voices of Recovery

Recovery advocacy toolkit
http://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/publications/advocacy_toolkit
/index.php

House of Commons Health Committee

Alcohol: first report
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cm
health/151/15102.htm

Journal Watch – Psychiatry

Reducing the adverse impacts of substance abuse: neurobiology
leads the way to new treatments, but slowly
http://psychiatry.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2010/104/6?
q=etoc_jwpsych
Mental Health Foundation
Mindfulness: executive summary 2010
http://www.bemindful.co.uk/media/downloads/Executive
%20Summary.pdf

NHS Confederation
1. Too much of the hard stuff: what alcohol costs the NHS
http://www.nhsconfed.org/Publications/Documents/Briefing_193_A
lcohol_costs_the_NHS.pdf

2. New Horizons: the next phase of mental health policy

http://www.nhsconfed.org/Publications/Documents/Briefing_196_M
HN_new_horizons.pdf

The Psychiatrist v34

Does the scientific evidence support the recovery model?
http://dailydose.net/files/documents/Warner_R_1.pdf

Probation Journal
Public face of binge drinking: British and Danish young women,
recent trends in alcohol consumption and the European binge
drinking debate
http://prb.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/56/4/415?etoc

Scan Bites 6 (4) Winter 2009

1. Treating stimulant misuse – what pharmacology has to offer
2. Pharmacology of benzodiazepines
3. Legal highs and recreational drugs: the psycho-naut web
mapping project
4. Cocaethylene: a brief look
5. Early reflections on a statutory and non-statutory addiction
service partnership
6. World class commissioning: what it means for addiction
services
www.scan.uk.net/resources/scanbites

Scottish Executive
Delivering for mental health: mental health peer support worker
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/169263/0047154.pdf

Wired Community Blog

The ten most important things known about addiction – parts 1 &
2
http://wiredin.org.uk/practitioners/community/blog/entry/6084/the
-ten-most-important-things-known-about-addiction-part-1/
http://wiredin.org.uk/users-ex-
users/community/blog/entry/6110/the-ten-most-important-things-
known-about-addiction-part-2/

Conference

Be careful what you wish for – Families, drugs and alcohol:

involvement or support? Tuesday March 23 2010. ORT House
Conference Centre, London
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