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Welcome to the Autumn/ Winter 2008 edition of our UK Drug Testing News page
The news page is designed to keep you up to date with the drug testing services and drug test products that Access Diagnostics offers, as well as covering drugs related topics of interest in the news , recent drug testing news and recent developments in the drug tests world.
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DRUGS NEWS FROM AROUND THE UK
SNP's new policy on drugs drops methadone
From the Times May 28 2008
The Scottish government is to cut back on methadone treatment in favour of rehabilitation
Angus Macleod, Scottish Political Editor
The SNP has switched the emphasis in Scotland's drugs strategy from harm reduction to recovery and rehabilitation.
The Scottish government hopes that its new five-point plan will help Scots to live drug-free lives and go some way to ridding the country of its unenviable reputation for having more addicts than most comparable European nations.
Also implicit in the strategy, which was published yesterday, is an acceptance that methadone, the heroin substitute prescribed to addicts, has not made enough of an impact on recovery rates.
In 2006 there were about 420 drug-related deaths in Scotland and it is estimated that there are 52,000 problem drug-users.
Related Links-Drug strategy support from the frontline
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article4029979.ece
This last figure is almost certainly a conservative one since many other addicts have not reached the stage of seeking help and are thus not known to the authorities.
Drug-taking, according to official estimates, costs Scots about £2.6billion a year, with a large part of that attributed to crime, as heroin and other drug-users need up to £300 a week to feed their addiction.
As part of its five-point strategy, the SNP will spend £94million during the next three years on tackling drug abuse, and increase funding for health board drug-treatment programmes by almost 4 per cent.
It will also overhaul for the first time services for tackling addiction and send every household an information leaflet, so that parents can warn their children off drugs.
Launching the initiative, Fergus Ewing, the Communities Minister, said that the “guiding purpose” of all drug treatment services would be helping addicts into recovery.
He told MSPs: “In the past there has not been enough focus on achieving positive outcomes for people with drug problems. We must make this a priority for the future.
“We will achieve this by reforming how drugs services are planned, commissioned and delivered. The idea of recovery must be central.
“There has been success in getting people into treatment. But we have been less good about getting them off methadone and into full recovery.”
Mr Ewing described recovery as embracing the principle that rather than concentrating on reducing risk and harm, services should support people to move on towards a drug-free life as active and contributing members of society.
As many as 60,000 youngsters are affected by parental drug abuse in Scotland and Mr Ewing pledged a programme of action to improve identification of children at risk.
Existing powers to seize assets and cash from dealers would also be strengthened and Mr Ewing promised better quality and more consistent treatment for addicts in prisons.
Labour said that the SNP had broken a promise to boost spending on tackling drug abuse by 20 per cent.
The Scottish Tories, who claim to have played a key part in encouraging the Nationalists to bring the new
“recovery” strategy forward, welcomed the shift in focus.
Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Tory leader, hoped that it would herald a new dawn for Scotland's drug policy. “I congratulate the Scottish government for coming to terms with the failures of recent years, characterised by an attempt to merely manage the problem rather than attack it head on,” she said.
“For too long, we have left those who have surrendered their lives to drugs in desperation and devastation. Let today be the day when we offered new hope and real help.”
David Liddell, director of Scottish Drugs Forum, described the strategy as highly ambitious, and acknowledged that medical help or prison sentences on their own were not nearly adequate to help people to overcome their addiction.
Full article & post your commments here http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article4029992.ece
'500 cannabis smokers a week seek medical help since drug downgrading'
From The Times January 11, 2008 David Rose
The number of people needing medical treatment as a result of cannabis use has risen by roughly half since the Government’s decision to downgrade the drug four years ago, figures have shown.
Since cannabis was changed from a Class B to a Class C drug in 2004, the equivalent of nearly 500 adults and children have been treated every week for its effects.
The Times reported this week that the decision is set to be reversed, with cannabis likely to revert to Class B status after an official review this spring.
David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, downgraded cannabis in January 2004, making possession a nonarrestable offence in most cases.
Since then, more than 16,500 adults a year have attended hospital citing health problems caused by cannabis, hospital statistics show. In addition, the number of children needing medical attention after smoking the drug has risen to more than 9,200.
Drug campaigners said that the latest figures showed that the downgrading decision was badly mistaken and had sent out the wrong signals about cannabis being a “soft” drug.
Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, are understood to be determined to return the drug to Class B after the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs reports in the next few months. The independent review into the reclassification of cannabis was prompted by growing concern about the increasing prevalence of new high-strength “skunk” forms, which can be twice as potent as untreated cannabis resin.
Doctors say that cannabis abuse contributes to mental health problems including forms of psychosis, paranoia and schizophrenia. There can be harmful physical side-effects, disrupting blood pressure and exacerbating heart and circulation disorders.
Read the full story at
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3169367.ece
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