FEAD – Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs

Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England >>

28th January 10 – Findings by region, 2006 to 2008 [NHS Information Centre, UK]

Alcohol-related deaths in the United Kingdom 1991-2008 >>

28th January 10 – The number of alcohol-related deaths in the United Kingdom has consistently increased since the early 1990s, rising from the lowest figure of 4,023 (6.7 per 100,000) in 1992 to the highest of 9,031 (13.6 per 100,000) in 2008 [Office for National Statistics, UK]

Beckley Briefing paper – Drug use: Knowledge, Culture and Context >>

26th January 10 – This briefing paper aims to stimulate discussion around the need for a qualitative corrective to complement the currently dominant quantitative approach. While leaving some areas of this emergent debate unexplored, we examine the major causes and effects of the relatively impoverished understanding of drug use, and go on to suggest ways in which the situation can begin to be addressed and alleviated [International Drug Policy Consortium]

Beckley Briefing paper – What can we learn from Sweden’s drug policy experience? >>

26th January 10 – This briefing paper will analyse Swedish drug control policy in its legal, clinical, political, social and cultural dimensions and consider the claims and policy-objectives it has been used to support. In the course of this analysis, it will explore the implications of Sweden’s model, if any, for other countries [International Drug Policy Consortium]