FEAD – Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs

Live Blog & Daily Coverage of the 55th Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna >>

16th March 12 –  Coverage of the 55th Commission on Narcotic Drugs is available to view online with daily updates covering the last five days of talks. The blog can be viewed in full at the following adress;

www.cndblog.org/2012/03/cnd-day-5-red-cross-side-event-urgent.html

‘Safe ketamine’ referred to drug expert >>

6th March 12 –  The Home Office has referred methoxetamine (also known as mexxy or MXE), which is being sold as ‘safe ketamine’, to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) for its views on controlling it 

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Credit Overdose Reversal Drug Naloxone with Saving 10,000 Lives >>

17th February 12 – A new report released  in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report shows that more than 10,000 drug overdoses have been successfully reversed by the generic drug naloxone. The report, “Community-Based Opioid Overdose Prevention Programs Providing Naloxone,” indicates that over a period of fifteen years, just under 200 programs across the country have prevented thousands of deaths. 

Drug offences definitive guideline – Sentencing Council >>

28th January 12 –  Following a 12 week consultation the Sentencing Council is publishing its new definitive guideline on drug offences, which has been issued in accordance with section 120 (4) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.