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• Editorial • Utrecht conference • News • An Elisad member: SIIS, Madrid • A new member: Drugtext Foundation • Publications • OnlineDocs Editorial • Agenda

HE AUTUMN has really come to my part of Europe with dark and misty nights. I still remember the nice and warm last day in Utrecht, when some of us took the wal- Tking tour in the beautiful ancient parts of the city. The guide was very enthusiastic Our next of her hometown and described lively all the monuments in the city centre. She specially annual conference is pointed out one of the local coffee shops and described little about their existence in planned 6-8 October 2011 society. at the French Monitoring Centre on Drugs & Drug Anyway I am glad that I bought myself a generous piece of well ripened Reypenaer Addiction (OFDT) cheese to bring home. Even though there is a Dutch cheese shop in my part of the city cen- Paris tre of Stockholm. Quite international so far up in the north of Europe, is n't it? This is my first editorial text as the new Chair of Elisad. First of all I want to make some reflections on our languages. I feel pleased to use English as the lingua franca among us in Elisad, some of you may have heard me mention “broken English”. That is what we all have in common and I want to emphasize that no one should excuse for their bad English. It is a charming bit of Elisad networking that we do understand each other so well! And please forgive me if my English is not so perfect at all times (English prepositions - damned!). In this issue of our journal you will find Christine Goodair's report on our Annual Conference in Utrecht. I found it very positive and inspiring, even if we discussed nega- tive topics like the economic crisis in Europe.

There is also an article about one of our Spanish members - SIIS - based in both Donostia (San Sebastián) and Madrid. As usual you will also find announcements for new books and online documents. This part of the journal is very useful for me personally as it is a good tool when I buy books for my library. I hope it is useful for all of you. Finally, I am very glad to be your new Chair! On behalf of both old and new Board members (Isabelle Michot and Fiorenzo Ranieri - welcome to the Board!) I will assure you that we will do our very best for Elisad in the coming year. Claes Olsson The walking tour in Elisad Chair the beautiful ancient parts of Utrecht n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 2 EEuurrooppeeaann AATTOODD lliibbrraarriieess iinn cchhaalllleennggiinngg eeccoonnoommiicc ttiimmeess

• Editorial nd • Utrecht conference 22 Elisad annual meeting • News 7-9 October 2009 - Utrecht • An Elisad member: SIIS, Madrid • A new member: Christine Goodair, Drugtext Foundation Immediate past President • Publications and Chair of Elisad • OnlineDocs • Agenda

Our 22nd annual conference was well attended this year with over 50% of our members there, which was excellent, given the difficult economic times. The conference was opened by Patricia Geradts, Trimbos Director, who made us feel very welcome. She described the work of the Trimbos as a know- ledge institute in mental health and addictions focussing on the application of research and evidence to practice. The Trimbos library has been transformed to support a knowledge organisation by beco- ming a meeting place for knowledge sharing, providing news services and on line newsletters such as Trimbos Quarterly which has 15,000 subscribers.

HE FIRST SPEAKER was Toine them down. Since 2004 there has government had hoped, mainly Ketelaars, researcher at the been much activity to discourage because the patients found that the TTrimbos, who gave an over- cannabis use and also restrictions on medical cannabis they were being view of Dutch Drugs Policy. He set cannabis farms and over 5000 have prescribed was not as effective as the scene by describing the core ele- been dismantled by the police. The the cannabis they had been growing ments of Dutch drug policy as being public nuisance factor has proved for their medicinal purposes. about the protection of individual, more difficult to manage but there Another typical part of the Dutch Patricia Geradts, Trimbos Director community, environment and has been some success in the sepa- drug policy is the medical heroin and below, Toine Ketelaars, society through the prevention of ration of markets for cannabis and prescription and again a random Trimbos researcher drug use and the provision of treat- for hard drugs since the police have ment and rehabilitation of drug found no evidence of hard drugs in users before focussing on the deve- coffee-shops. The new government lopments in Dutch cannabis policy of 2010 are now looking to close from 1976 to the present day focusing coffee-shops or make them availa- on the tolerated and well known ble to members only. Dutch coffee- shop system. Over time this aspect of Dutch drugs Since 2001 the Office of Medicinal policy has been changing and Toine Cannabis has been tasked to find talked about the more recent attempts ways of producing pharmaceutical to curtail foreign 'drug tourists' from cannabis for use in clinical research the coffee- shops and the increasing and for patients with certain chronic concerns about the production of illnesses such as cancer, multiple cannabis by criminal organisations. sclerosis and AIDS. A controlled trial Initiatives to regulate coffee-shops of this medical cannabis was under- have been brought in and they have taken with patients but it was inte- to be licensed by local authorities, resting to learn that the trial has not who also have the power to close been as successful as the Dutch n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 3 controlled trail of prescribed heroin Rene Dales the Regional Sales This was followed by Serena Panero and methadone users versus metha- Manager for EBSCO Benelux gave and Daniela Zardo, Gruppo Abele done alone users was set up in 1998. us a tour of the various databases who as keynote speakers shared It found that those taking prescribed that they host and provide seamless their experiences of managing in heroin and methadone were functio- access to with many useful tools difficult times and how the strategies ning better than the methadone only such as the search builder box, and they have developed. Their talk was group. There are 715 treatment pla- next generation federated search. aptly called Sailing rough waters: ces in 17 units across the 15 munici- He also described the subscription staying on course. • Editorial palities of Holland. management, online journals and other services provided. Of interest They opened their presentation by • Utrecht conference To sum up the changes in drug policy to all was the budgeting trends sur- giving a brief history of addiction • News have brought about a stricter canna- vey and social media in libraries information centres in Italy. Except bis policy, separated the markets for survey undertaken by EBSCO. for the documentation centres of • An Elisad member: soft and hard drugs, and enabled Gruppo Abele and Unicri, both SIIS, Madrid cannabis and heroin treatments. Having heard about the loss of located in Turin, most of Italian • A new member: libraries it was pleasing to hear the documentation centres on addictions Having had the scene set on the Drugtext Foundation Isabelle Michot, Documentalist, were founded in the early nineties host's drug policy and situation the Observatoire français des drogues et with monies from the National Fund • Publications conference theme of libraries in des toxicomanies (OFDT French for the fight against drugs and are • OnlineDocs challenging economic times was Monitoring centre for drugs & drug small centres within local Health • Agenda starkly set out by Mario Lap, addiction) describe the new online and Addiction Services. The current Director Drugtext Foundation, database of the OFDT. This new crisis has produced a reduction in www.drugtext.org/ talked about his bibliographic database has been funds and the effect is a reduction in new Drugtext project, Libraries online since July 30th, 2010 and is staff and expenses for training and under threat, an emergency plan. available from the homepage of documentation. Drugtext began in 1995 in order to OFDT's website www.ofdt.fr. This disseminate and produce digital new tool, implemented with the However, the presentation focused information on substance use, harm open source software PMB, includes on Gruppo Abele's Documentation reduction and drug policies but the OFDT's own database (11,000 and Research Centre, the oldest in more recently their work is focusing references), the Toxibase database Italy, and part of the well-known on saving key and seminal drug (36,000 references, managed until non profit NGO Gruppo Abele esta- documents from the most important 2006 by the French network of blished in 1966 by a group of young conventional European libraries and documentation centres) and a unique people. The Association - the first documentation centres that are now collection of French law texts with one in Italy - began life by assisting either closed, inaccessible, or are full access to the legislative documents. drug abusers at a time when the law under threat. Mario described the The main topics covered by the docu- only provided for incarceration or emergency plan he has created with ments described in this database are psychiatric treatment. others to save the contents of these mostly ATOD effects, use and conse- Consequently, Gruppo Abele led the libraries by digitalizing a core set of quences, public health policies, drug reports, books and other materials movement demanding a new drug markets, harm reduction, but also law to enable better access to help determined by a peer review of treatment and prevention. group. The site is being added to for drug users, which was finally regularly and is a portal for a wide The afternoon session was dedicated achieved in 1975.The profile of range of key documents available in to the economic situation in Europe Gruppo Abele significantly increased html formats. The emergency plan and how it was impacting upon at a national level and the demand is now at the stage where it needs libraries. The session kicked off by for information and documentation professional information knowledge Jorunn Moen, Senior adviser, Nor- on the growing phenomenon of drug and expertise to assist with identi- wegian Institute for Alcohol & Drug use began to reach the Association. fying documents and finding funds Research (Sirus) who started by tal- As a result of this the Documentation to continue the digitization work. king about the causes of the economic and Research Centre was set up, Following this a brief discussion crisis in the EU such as the issue of after being, up to then, only a small took place about how this work many EU countries having to borrow library for practitioners and volun- could be further developed suppor- extensively to pay for welfare pro- teers working in the Association. ted by Elisad members. Questions grammes, resulting in accumulated Gruppo Abele's activities are rooted were asked about intellectual pro- debts. The current solutions were in the concept of “social capital”, perty and the subject coverage and briefly looked at including the need which includes trust, shared values, how the documents were being for sanctions on countries that do relational networks, voluntary work, indexed. not adhere to the financial rules. and a sense of belonging, with all those potential resources that help carry out projects and make the organisation work.

The media are constantly saying that the current crisis is a financial and economic one, but Gruppo Mario Lap Abele believe it reflects a cultural Rene Dales and ethical crisis of politics. Daniela Zardo Culture, as well as studies and Serena Panero research on social phenomena, have Jorunn Moen always been at the core of Gruppo Isabelle Michot Abele's interventions, be they addressing drug addiction or immi- grants, AIDS or human trafficking. This is the reason why our Docu- mentation and Research Centre still exists: because Gruppo Abele's n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 4 Other activities include running etc.). This is leading us to take on of libraries closing or having to library and information skills courses research work from external custo- reduce opening hours and having for students at the universities of mers and by other GA's sectors. In budgets cut. And as one person Torino and Bologna and having a this sense, the Association is a remarked this has the impact of library wiki providing information resource to us, as well as us being a undermining a countries knowledge and resources (http://biblioabele. resource for the Association. capital. All agreed that difficult times pbworks.com/). Networking at can also present opportunities and local level with the Coordination of To date we have found that these may help us to manage services and survival strategies have provided • Editorial Special and Specialized Libraries in resources better in the future - as Turin established in 2008 (CoBiS benefits such as - professional edu- Paula said “we have to do more • Utrecht conference www.cobis.to.it); at regional and cation, exchange of good practices, with less”. There were concerns that constructive feedback on our services • News national level (AIB www.aib.it/) and libraries are often seen as easy targets on the web through our OPACS using and an increased visbility. To sum to cut but with no thought about the • An Elisad member: up the key points for any library SIIS, Madrid a standard cataloguing approach and impact and risks it brings to acade- having our catalogue available on wanting to survive in difficult times mic research. Similarly, decisions • A new member: the web. needs to consider networking and about cuts are made without proper Drugtext Foundation working with key staff in the orga- cost benefit analyses or how one Research has always been an impor- nisation; have external users and • Publications can remodel a service into a new tant section of our activity, but from champions; develop your knowledge resource, by those without profes- • OnlineDocs 2002 to 2006 it almost came to a and increase your own expertise of sional knowledge or understanding. • Agenda halt due to important staff turnovers research methods; and gert involved It was good to hear that Sweden is and the consequent lack of trained in projects, Be active and get your- not so affected by the crisis but researchers. This situation eventually selves known. By doing these things board of directors has always belie- have to be more restrained with the changed in 2006, when 3 new we have achieved credibility, higher finances available so whilst there ved in its function and they still try researchers were appointed. As you appreciation from public bodies and to support it, as far as possible, with are no cuts to the CAN library budget will see, networking has been crucial become better known internally. there is no increase either. the available financial resources. Like also for our research activities. others we have had to reduce our staff It has been challenging but at times Clearly as a result of the financial to the minimum affordable, to look Our first way of resuming research they did say that they had felt like difficulties many libraries are facing for more voluntary workers and find work was to act as consultants for the little Dutch boy, Hans Brinker, threats to their budgets and the dela- ways of being able to remain afloat different types of possible financing trying to prevent the flood by putting gates were invited to consider and bodies in order to make them aware his finger in the dyke! report back on three questions: So our three main “survival” strategies of the subjects and approaches that are library promotions, networking, • Is the crisis affecting your library? characterize Gruppo Abele. In part- Discussion panel • How can we turn the problems and boosting research. As university nership with our researchers we students form our main client base Having had the scene set the remai- into opportunities? began two research and documenta- ning time was given to a panel • How can Elisad play a supportive we have targeted some initiatives at tion projects on gambling and doping them. These include increasing the comprising Daniela Zardo (Italy) role? and promoted these issues nationally. Christine Goodair (UK) Claes Olsson knowledge of our library by getting The feedback from this discussion In addition we are making our servi- (Sweden), Paula Graça (Portugal) students to recommend the library was varied and it was clear that dif- ces known within Gruppo Abele and Petroula Prassa (Greece) to by “word-of-mouth” and 37% of such ferent situations exist across Europe. itself, amongst those working in other reflect on the impact that difficult users are referred to our library by Whilst there have been closures of activity sectors of GA (i.e. those financial times were having on their University professors, who have libraries in France and the UK, dealing with young people, families, libraries within their respective coun- been involved in our promotion Italy, Sweden, and Norway have not efforts too. immigrants, drug and alcohol abusers, tries. The common issues were that

The discussion panel and the round tables. Participants had to answer to 3 questions: • Is the crisis affecting your library? • How can we turn the problems into opportunities? • How can Elisad play a supportive role? n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 5

• Editorial • Utrecht conference • News • An Elisad member: SIIS, Madrid • A new member: Drugtext Foundation • Publications Henk van Ess, Marc Wauters, Marianne van • OnlineDocs der Heijden, and Laila Zagdoudi. • Agenda suffered similarly. Turning problems was requested with this. Following available in Dutch and German. His into opportunities is possible and we the survey a report was submitted main tip is not to ask questions but had the examples of Gruppo Abele for consideration and the next phase to concentrate on the expected ans- and OFDT developing new services is to build on and develop the servi- wer. www.googlecode.nl/ and advi- and resources and, despite the diffi- ces and resources asked for. sed that you should use the English culties in Greece, the Greek Biblio- language to search so as to avoid The next speaker was a familiar graphy on Drugs and Alcohol will missing 99% of relevant informa- face to Elisad, Marianne van der be published and they hope to tion. To search effectively one has Heijden, a former Chair of Elisad appoint a librarian again in 2011 for to get in to the mind of the expert and very active in the initial Gateway the Greek Focal Point Centre. who posted the information, so project. Marianne had returned to talk think about the words they would Elisad is a small organization but its to us about her use of social media use to describe their resource. Other strength is in its networks and we in the library she is now working in tips included - searching for a were encouraged to use the list more NIOO-KNAW a Dutch Environmental period use… eg 1965…1990. An as a way of supporting one another. Research Centre and library. Stressing example given was “on what day settings, and access to experts wor- Other ideas included working more the role of librarians as communica- was lsd produced for the first time” king within the healthy nightlife closely with similar organizations tors and collaborators she showed and to get this from a reliable field in the EU. Examples of the such as SALIS or EAHIL thus raising how libraries and staff can use blogs, source consider this form of search impact of the toolbox were given the profile of Elisad; having a more twitter, wikis, chat, delicious etc to query - “lSD was discovered in” such as in Manchester (UK) where frequent but shorter newsletter; promote libraries, advise users of site:gov - and this works very well the intervention of employing secu- improving the content of the web- resources, and become the know how as the first result gave the answer! rity staff at late night taxi ranks led site; reactivating the Gateway and centre for social media - providing to feelings of increased safety keeping it up to date. help advice and training on how to Marc Wauters, VAD, Brussels, fol- among taxi drivers and users and a use these modern services effectively. lowed this with a tutorial on the 50% reduction in crime compared The second day A brief overview of the various types new PubMed interface which has with previous years. Feedback from of media was given along with an changed radically. He showed how users of the handbook in Hungary The second day had a forward loo- instant survey of how many of used it has been simplified and how to and Italy has shown that the gui- king feel to it, with presentations on social media as well as pointing us access the element we use most dance and tips to help develop alco- results from a library survey; social to the EBSCO survey of social media often such as the advanced search hol and drug prevention in nightlife media in libraries; the search code - in libraries. The talk also came with facilities. settings are well structured, clear, using the internet more effectively; guidance on how to manage your and easy to use. a tutorial on using the new PubMed time and be professional and avoid The final speaker was Laila Zagh- interface; and the international mixing work social media activity doudi, Communications Advisor, The General Assembly Healthy Nightlife Toolbox initiative. with personal social media activity. Trimbos Institute, who described Our afternoon was spent on Elisad her work on the Healthy Nightlife Jorunn Moen opened the day repor- Finally it finished with listing useful business, with the General Assembly. Toolbox www.hnt-info.eu/ which is ting on the results of a user survey resources and tips for getting started Reports from the Chair, treasurer an international project. The countries of the Sirus library and website in the social media sphere as a way and public relations officer were collaborating are the Netherlands (Norwegian Institute for Alcohol of reaching new your users. Her given. Like many networks we are (Trimbos); UK (Centre for Public and Drug Research) she had under- presentation can be found at small given the specialist nature of Health Liverpool John Moores taken. The main aim of the survey www.slideshare.net/mheyden/soci our work in addictions. Following University); Belgium (VAD); Spain was to ascertain the views of current al-media-in-libraries. on from last year's Assembly much (IREFREA) and Hungary (National and potential users what they found time has been spent on reviewing Henk van Ess, a journalist and Institute for Drug Prevention). As helpful and if there were new servi- and updating the Elisad Constitution consultant presented a challenge to Laila said alcohol and drug use ces required. Questback was used and following its presentation to the us - how to search Goggle effecti- come with health and safety pro- for the survey, which is a simple membership it was accepted. The vely. He challenged the traditional blems and this international project and easy to use package. The results major change it has conferred on us methods of searching the internet provides three online databases. The were positive and affirmed the need is our name which is now European for information which we are very databases are aimed at local, regio- for the library to continue providing Association of Libraries and Infor- familiar with, and showed us how to nal and national policy makers and journals and books with additional mation Services on Addictions. be more effective at finding the are designed to help them reduce online services such as RSS feeds, exact information needed without harm from alcohol and drugs. The periodical alerts and full text articles A brief overview of our finances having many 'false drops'. His databases contain evaluated inter- on the website. Literature searching was given and it is clear that we as approach his set out in his recent ventions, guidelines and tips for is a valued service and more help an organisation will have to be care- book The Google Code, currently drug and alcohol use in night life ful with our resources, and the n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 6 was agreed that a new one should be set up and Mario Lap of Drugtext Evaluation summary of our meeting in Utrecht kindly offered his help. 14 Elisad members filled in the evaluation form, but not everbody Our election for the board was held. answered all questions. Scores ranged from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). Standing down this time were Brian Galvin (treasurer) and Christine Evaluation average scores for each question: Goodair (President & Chair) and • Pre-conference information 3,8 Mariella Orsi who were thanked for • Organization 4,5 • Editorial their work over many years. The • Conference facility 4,0 • Utrecht conference new board comprises Claes Olsson • Speaker's communication styles 3,1 • News (President & Chair); Daniela Zardo • Content of presentations 3,9 (Secretary); Jorunn Moen (treasurer); • Time management 4,0 • An Elisad member: Isabelle Michot, Angita Peterse • Conference information pack 3,9 SIIS, Madrid Annie Singer, & Fiorenzo Ranieri as • Panel & round table 4,1 • A new member: ordinary members with Christine • Opportunity to network/ knowledge sharing 4,3 Drugtext Foundation Goodair as immediate Past Chair & • Coffee breaks/ meals 3,7 President). • Publications Overall evaluation 4,1 • OnlineDocs The Elisad dinner Suggestions for improving the Elisad meeting: • Agenda Following the closure of the meeting • None - well organized we reassembled for the Elisad Dinner • More collaboration in finding EU projects at a canal side restaurant and enjoyed • More space for questions after presentations: 20 min. speakers + board will be giving this further an excellent meal and evening toge- 10 min. for speakers consideration. Annie Singer provi- ther. Christine thanked Angita for • Map of the town in welcome dossier ded a full report of her public rela- hosting the annual meeting and • Idea: put the countries where we come from on our badges tions work and she was pleased to gave her a thank you gift of an • Lobbying: make Elisad more popular, there was a poor participation report that the journal is going from English Christmas Pudding, Scottish strength to strength and is now biscuits and a pot of crocus bulbs What topics would you like to see discussed at future meetings: taking research articles. (possibly from Holland originally!) • How to communicate better in Elisad And those who stayed over the • What social media could we use Our yahoo mailing list is not so weekend enjoyed a guided walking • What new services can we offer our members that may be of well used and this has been an issue tour of the historical sights of interest to new users for some. Following discussion it Utrecht in glorious weather. • Different target of customers (young people, no professional people) • A possibility to share some of social media (Twitter etc.) • Technical tips to improve librarians work and marketing • What new projects we could build together • Organisation of libraries • What is the best way of writing a bibliographic reference Which aspects did not meet your expectations: • None • Good relationships • Not long enough - more speakers • All aspects met my expectations Additional comments / suggestions: • Excellent venue and well organized • Inviting people out of Elisad to come to our conference • The presentations were more interesting and more practical • As always, inspiring and nice to meet and network with old and new Elisad friends Comments: • All of those who filled in the evaluation forms are Elisad members • A majority had read about the conference on the mailing list • Some had got the conference announcement on Elisad web site • One had got information on a Board meeting Claes Olsson, CAN, Sweden

During our festive dinner, Claes, our new Chair, in front of a Laurel & Hardy picture, did a speach, and Christine offered gifts to Angita, for hosting our meeting... n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 7

• Editorial • Utrecht conference The Gruppo Abele and its research/documen- • News tation centre, one of the oldest Elisad member (since 1992), both renewed their websites, • An Elisad member: and have a nice new logo. Pay them a visit: SIIS, Madrid www.gruppoabele.org/ • A new member: http://centrostudi.gruppoabele.org/ Drugtext Foundation • Publications News • OnlineDocs • Agenda

EMCDDA signs accord nent, which in recent years has been while also supporting the EMCDDA in back, Dan Lawrence, and Diane van with Pompidou Group through West Africa, and also the its mission to develop indicators that Abbe. Congratulations and good luck route for heroin, which crosses through can paint an overall picture of Europe's to the new Board! Coordinating efforts to address Turkey or Russia. Part of the strategy drugs phenomenon. http://salis.org/ Europe's drugs problem and using is based on strengthening cooperation www.emcdda.europa.eu/events/sup- resources effectively were among the with third countries. Other pillars of ply-indicators Bryony Addis-Jones: pledges made on 3 November by the this strategy are to encourage collabo- a new Elisad contact EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) and the ration between the various agencies Pompidou Group in a new Memoran- EMCDDA and CICAD signed a In April 2010, Bryony Addis-Jones and bodies involved in combating the dum of Understanding (MoU) signed three-year work programme replaced Louise Manners, librarian drug trade, as well as to carry out joint in the margins of the Ministerial James Mack, Executive Secretary of and information officer of the Centre sea-based operations. Lastly, the fight Conference of the Pompidou Group. the Inter-American Drug Abuse information on Beverage Alcohol against drugs will focus on seizing the It was signed by Council of Europe Control Commission (CICAD), visited (CBA), and Elisad member from 1992 profits from drug trafficking, and there Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland the EMCDDA in Lisbon. The focus of to 1995 and from 2001 till 2010. is even a proposal to use these funds and EMCDDA Director Wolfgang Götz. the visit was the endorsement of a Bryony Addis-Jones is the Research and assets in the battle against the new EMCDDA-CICAD work programme and Library Information Officer for drugs trade. both the CBA and the International France elected as the new for 2011-13. The EMCDDA collaborates www.eu-un.europa.eu/articles/fr/ Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP). chair of the Pompidou Group with CICAD under a Memorandum of article_9823_fr.htm She joined CBA in 2003 and has res- Representatives from Pompidou Group Understan-ding (MoU) it signed in Video: summary of the press conference ponsibility for Research services member States, Mediterranean and 2000 with CICAD's parent body, the at: www.eu2010.es/en/documentosy- including document supply, the weekly other international organisations met Organisation of American States (OAS). noticias/galeria_multimedia/videos/j research alert, and monthly global on 3-4 November in Strasbourg to Strategic objectives outlined in the research publication. She has a degree debate current policy approaches and un03_rubalcaba2.htm three-year plan include: strengthening in Classics from Manchester Univer- decide on the Pompidou Group work regional and international monitoring sity and a post-graduate MA in programme for 2011-2014. Étienne First European conference systems; harmonising and developing Library information Management. Apaire, President of the French inter- on drug supply indicators indicators in the areas of drug supply Previous experience includes nine ministerial mission against drug abuse and demand; and supporting the esta- The last two years have seen unprece- years in the information services of (MILDT) was elected as the new presi- blishment of national drug monitoring dented interest, both technically and a human rights organization and three dency of the Group. The conference centres and drug information networks. politically, in improving the evidence years managing the library and hel- also saw the accession of new members www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2010/ base for understanding issues of drug ping to develop a new website at the to the Pompidou Group: Serbia and fs-6 supply. In this optic, the European Royal College of Midwives. She lives Macedonia. The conference held a Commission and the EMCDDA have in London and plays rugby for debate on “Drug-related risks at the joined forces to organise, with the Trimbos Institute became London Welsh. Welcome to Bryony work place”, “Early intervention” and active involvement of Europol, the first a WHO Collaborating Centre Addis-Jonnes! supply reduction in this context. The European conference on drug supply The World Health Organization (WHO) three winning projects of the 2010 indicators. The purpose of the confe- has designated the Trimbos Institute Australian new professional European Drug Prevention Prize - a rence, held in Brussels from 20-22 (an Elisad member) as a WHO Colla- portal for alcohol and drug Belgian, a Spanish and a British project October, was to launch the process for borating Centre for Dissemination of - were also announced. Are online : designing a new European strategy for The Australian Drug Foundation has good practices in mental health. the final Declaration, the Work pro- monitoring drug markets, crime and just launched a new professional deve- www.trimbos.org/news/trimbos- gramme 2011-2014, a photo gallery, supply reduction. The event gathered, lopment portal - a one-stop-shop for news/trimbos-institute-who-collabo- videos and speeches. for the first time at European level, people currently working or looking rating-centre for work in the alcohol and other drug www.coe.int/t/dg3/pompidou/ around 120 European & international and mental health sectors. The profes- experts, such as law enforcement offi- New officers elected sional development portal can be European Union seals Pact cers, forensic scientists, criminologists, accessed through the Australian Drug against drug trafficking national data collection specialists, to the SALIS Executive Board Information Network (ADIN) and data analysts, economists, policy/intel- New Executive Board officers for the The home affairs ministers of the includes information on: • Conferences ligence analysts and technical staff of 2010-2011 year were announced in European Union sealed a Pact against & events • Training and development EU and international institutions, to New York. Meg Brunner takes over as drug trafficking, focusing on drug- • Networks & news • Memberships devise a plan to implement the infor- Chair, with Jorunn Moen named as trafficking routes and the profits gene- • Employment opportunities. mation tools needed to understand Chair-Elect, our first from outside rated from this activity, during a www.adin.com.au/content.asp?Docu rd these key facets of the drugs pheno- North America. Laurie Krom replaces Council meeting held the 3 of June in ment_ID=267 Luxembourg. The aim of this European menon. This event is expected to Barb Weiner as Treasurer, Christine Pact is to cut off the route by which contribute in achieving the objectives Goodair continues as Secretary, and cocaine reaches the European conti- of the EU drugs action plan (2009-12), members at large are Shirley Dellen- n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 8 An Elisad member :

• Editorial • Utrecht conference • News • An Elisad member: Centro de documentación SIIS, Madrid de drogodependencias del pais Vasco • A new member: Drugtext Foundation • Publications Centre for information and documentation on drug abuse • OnlineDocs • Agenda Arantxa Mendieta, Chief documentalist & Jenny Delitsch, documentalist

there are over 170 000 entries in website we provide basic instruc- the database and about 40 000 of tions on how to retrieve the docu- these documents are related to ments in the databases using the drug addictions and other depen- search form but we also can pro- dencies. English and Spanish are vide bibliographies on demand. the dominant languages. Requests can be sent to: • The legislative database includes [email protected] or to Spanish and European Union [email protected] legislation in full text. About Arantxa Mendieta A few years ago, in an attempt to 1 500 of the 22 000 references in make our websites even more user the database refer to legislative HE CENTRE for Information friendly, the centre started offering documents related to drugs. and Documentation on the users the possibility to subs- TDrug Abuse (CDD) was • The periodicals database collects cribe to RSS (Really Simple founded in 1992 by the Basque news articles from Spanish news- Syndication) feeds. And for those Observatory on Drug Abuse. The papers. interested in exchanging URLs of centre constitutes a part of the SIIS Internet resources with us we've Documentation and Research People who want to consult these created an access through the Centre, a non-profit organization documents can visit the centre, social bookmarking web service with over 30 years of experience which is open to the public five Delicious. of documentation and research in days a week. Considering that the the field of Social Policy and immense majority prefer to access Our publications Services. our documentary resources from a The websites also offers the possi- distance we have made great bility to see and download most and by three potential user groups: The collection, organization and efforts to adapt our services and of the serial and monographic young persons, parents and jour- dissemination of information products to meet that need. publications edited by the centre. nalists and other professionals. published in the field of drug Therefore our services and products One of the publications on drugs addictions and other dependencies were designed to create seamless with on-line access is the monthly Other resources offered by Drogo- are included among the objectives access to all the resources of the abstracts bulletin Boletín CDD media include: a glossary on of the centre. The library brings centre, regardless of their format published in collaboration with Spanish drug terms; a Spanish- together resources from many dif- and their origin. the Department on Drug Policy of Basque dictionary with terms rela- ferent disciplines: criminology; the Basque Government. The ted to addictions; a compilation of Digitalisation of documents psychology; psychiatry; sociology; main contents of the bulletin are links to internet resources and a medicine; pedagogy and a long The centre has invested time and reviews of recently published list of upcoming national and etcetera. Although we acquire money in digitalising the library. documents and on-line resources, international events. documents in a big variety of Today practically all of the interviews and roundtables with themes related to addictions, the contents of the legislative and invited experts and a list of upco- centre has a particular interest in periodicals databases and approxi- ming events. The centre also aspects related to harm reduction. mately 75% of the documents in publishes an electronic news bul- the bibliographic database are Centro de Documentación de Our databases letin Gabia OVD/ Drogomedia on available in digital format. a daily basis. Drogodependencias del País Vasco These resources are included in CDD our three main databases updated Our websites In order to facilitate an even bet- Apdo. de Correos 667 on a daily basis: The content of the databases is ter access to electronic documents 20080 Donostia-San Sebastián • The bibliographic database available for searching and down- the centre has created a digital Spain contains journal articles, monogra- loading at the two websites of the library. The electronic library and Tel.: +34 943 423656 phic publications, on-line resources centre: www.siis.net and the rest of the contents at Drogo- Fax: +34 943 293007 [email protected] and grey literature. Currently www.drogomedia.com. On the media are organized by themes n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 9 A new Elisad member :

• Editorial • Utrecht conference • News • An Elisad member: SIIS, Madrid The Drugtext Foundation • A new member: Drugtext Foundation Mario Lap, Director • Publications • OnlineDocs • Agenda

HE DRUGTEXT FOUNDATION use under threat of closure or The staff was founded in 1995 by have become non- accessible and The Board is consisting in the TErnest Drucker, Erik some have been done away with. President, Mario Lap, a Treasurer, Fromberg and Mario Lap as a Lars Lommen, and a secretary Therefore emergency initiatives non-profit foundation under the Talitha Doyne. Dutch Law. and measures are required to ensure: There are four webmasters, wor- Its aim was to establish an king in different places, one for 1. Unique substance use related Internet based multilingual library each language: English, French, library collections and content containing information on subs- Dutch and German. Mario Lap is worldwide is saved. tance use, dependence, harm in charge of the English one. reduction and substance use rela- 2. The contents of these libraries ted policies. Thirteen European well known according to a priority list set out experts in the drugs field are by Drugtext foundation in coope- After 15 years of development, its members of the Scientific ration with an international net- website (www.drugtext.org) now Committee who work on editing, work of experts are digitalised. contains a unique wealth of infor- selecting documents, and peer- mation such as a full text report In order to provide for the neces- review material for uploading to Mario Lap section (from 1894 until today), a sary infrastructure and facilities to the site. full text article section, a full text undertake this important task the books section, a legal texts sec- Further activities following has been done: tion, and useful manuals and to be undertaken handbooks. • High end redundant Internet • Translation as well as (re)deve- hosting facilities1, The evolution of the project lopment or rewriting of hand- Since the setting up of Drugtext • Book and large format scanners, books, manuals and other key the substance misuse information laptops with OCR and processing material focussed on the reduction sector has changed with many of applications, of substance use related risks. the vital international and national • Development and maintenance The entrance of the Drugtext libraries dealing with substance • Specialised physical storage of partnerships with existing libra- computing service at the SARA facilities for the preservation of ries and organisations. centre, University of Amsterdam vulnerable documents, • Peer review style network of • Acquisition of further financial editors and co-operators, backing, partnerships, grants and development of a low priced paid • International operation and edi- section for original and translated ting team. material.

For a further description of the current project, we can provide 1 19 inch rack with open source based Elisad members with the full Content Management and Digital Drugtext project report. Library software servers (centos, plesk, joomla & OCLC) at the SARA, computing and network centre of the Drugtext Foundation University of Amsterdam Koninginneweg 189 (www.sara.nl/index_eng.html), fall 1075 CP - Amsterdam back hosting facilities at the London The Netherlands and Frankfurt Internet exchanges, as Phones: + 31 20 66 44 086 well as dedicated backup facilties at and: + 31 20 67 31 139 the Internet service provider XS4ALL Email: [email protected] (www.xs4all.nl/en/). n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 10

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• What are we doing about the drugs with the emergence of transnational DRUGS trade? • What else can we do? policing practices responding to drug • Where next in the war on drugs? trafficking and organised crime. It Towards an integrated policy • Glossary & index examines how security threats are on psychoactive substances: a Anne Rooney - Franklin Watts, Nov. prioritised and the strategies that are theoretical & empirical analysis 2010, 48p - ISBN: 978-1445100692 put in place to respond to them, based Vers une politique intégrée liée aux www.franklinwatts.co.uk/ on a detailed empirical case study of substances psychoactives: analyse police and security sector organiza- théorique et empirique Controversies in drugs policy tions in the Caribbean. This publication builds upon the work and practice Ben Bowling - Oxford University Press, June 2010, 304p - ISBN: 978- of From a policy on illegal drugs to a The rapid deepening of the global 0199577699 policy on psychoactive substances drug problem has spurred increasingly www.oup.com/us/ Salles de shoot ? Un regard (2008), which examined the ways in heated debate over the best solutions. engagé en faveur de l'expéri- which drug policy is applied in European Should drug use be an issue for health- mentation de structures countries, this volume presents the care services or a matter of criminal American war machine: Deep scientific grounds for choosing between justice? Is universal abstinence both politics, the CIA global drug d'accueil avec possibilité de a separate policy for each substance unrealistic and undesirable? Does drug connection, and the road to consommer à moindre risque and a single, “integrated” policy incor- legalization offer a viable answer? Afghanistan des drogues porating all substances. It also examines This book provides a thought-provo- In this thoroughly researched book, Shooting rooms? An engaged glance how policy is implemented in seven king account of some of the most the author marshals compelling evi- in favour of the experiment of countries selected to cover the entire pressing issues for policy makers and dence to expose the extensive trail of reception facilities offering drug spectrum, namely those with separate practitioners. Designed as a platform sanctioned but illicit violence in poli- consumption at lesser risk policies for each substance and those for further discussion, it presents the tics and state affairs, especially when Les « salles de shoot » ou, terme moins with an integrated policy. Substance full spectrum of perspectives on chro- related to America's long-standing sensationnel, les structures d'accueil use impinges on the quality of life of nic and contemporary challenges to involvement with the global drug traf- avec possibilité de consommer à individuals and society at large, leading drug policy and explores the reality fic. Beginning with Laos in the 1950s, moindre risque des drogues, ont the authors to conclude that new for drug users, dealers, suppliers and Americans have become inured to the défrayé la chronique cet été jusqu'à ce scientific evidence should be given producers. Drawing on an internatio- CIA's alliances with drug traffickers que le Premier Ministre déclare qu'elles greater consideration. Moreover, it nal evidence base, it considers: (and their bankers) to install and sus- n'étaient « ni utiles, ni souhaitables ». appears that policy co-ordination is a • Drug enforcement measures: do they tain right-wing governments. The pat- Pourtant, ces structures existent déjà fundamental issue in determining work and are they always ethical? tern has repeated itself in Italy, au Canada, en Australie et dans six whether policies are integrated or not. • Addiction treatment: its purpose, Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, Venezuela, pays européens (Suisse, Allemagne, The question remains open, however, cost and limitations. • Drug research: Colombia, Peru, Chile, Panama, Pays-Bas, Espagne, Luxembourg et as to which structures and bodies can the strength of its impact on policy Honduras, Turkey, Pakistan, and now Norvège) et les résultats des évalua- better serve single policies or an inte- and practice. • Possible solutions from Afghanistan to name only those coun- tions sont tous favorables tant pour la grated policy for all substances. classic criminalization to radical harm tries dealt within this book. It shows collectivité du point de vue de la lutte reduction. Richard Muscat, Dike van de Mheen, that the relationship of US intelligence contre la toxicomanie et la délinquance & Cas Barendregt et al. - Pompidou Neil McKeganey - Palgrave operators to the global drug traffic, que pour la santé publique et indivi- Group, Nov. 2010, 71p - ISBN: 978- Macmillan, Dec. 2010, 216p - ISBN: and to other international criminal net- duelle. En France, c'est le collectif du 9287169259. Also available in French. 978-0230235953 works, deserves greater attention in 19 mai, regroupant les associations http://book.coe.int/EN/ficheou- www.palgrave.com/ the debate over the US presence in ANITea, Act up, ASUD, SOS Hépatites, vrage.php?PAGEID=36&lang=EN& Afghanistan. To date, America's Safe, Gaïa, salledeconsommation.fr et produit_aliasid=2557 Policing the Caribbean. government and policies have done SOS Drogue International qui travaillent Transnational security coopera- more to foster rather than to curtail the à la question de la mise en œuvre de Why do people make and sell tion in practice drug trade. The so-called war on ter- projets pilotes. Le présent ouvrage est drugs? ror, and in particular in Afghanistan, une aide à la réflexion pour une expé- The book explores the emergence of constitute the latest chapter in this dis- rimentation de ce dispositif de réduc- This series for children takes an in-depth law enforcement and security practi- turbing book. tion des risques. look at some of the major social and ces that extend beyond the boundaries political issues. Contents listing: of the nation state. Perceptions of Peter Dale Scott - Rowman & Bernard Bertrand - Books on Demand, • Drugs: What's the deal? • Have people public safety and national sovereignty Littlefield, Nov. 2010, 408p - ISBN: Oct. 2010, 78p - ISBN: 978-2810620913 always used drugs? • What happens are shifting in the face of domestic, 978-0742555945 www.bod.fr/index.php?id=1786&obj today? • Why fight the drugs trade? regional and global insecurity, and www.rowmanlittlefield.com/ k_id=401711 n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 11 Afrique noire, poudre blanche. sociologists, pharmacological and only the economic profits, but also the L'Afrique sous la coupe des medical experts, but also non-acade- more intangible or social rewards cartels de la drogue mics associated with the cultivation, obtained from these activities. distribution, and sale of cannabis; Black Africa, white powder. Africa Tom Decorte, Jane Fountain, et al. - under the control of drug cartels • Brings together writers from the US, ESDD / Pabst Science Publishers, Canada, UK, Finland, Switzerland, 2010, 156p - ISBN: 978-3899676549 Depuis le début des années 2000, les South Africa, and New Zealand. www.pabst-science-publishers.com/ cartels latino-américains de la drogue Fritz Allhoff & Dale Jacquette - ont investi l'Afrique pour approvision- The American drug scene. • Editorial ner le marché européen. Grâce à la Wiley-Blackwell, Sept. 2010, 264p - ISBN: 978-1405199674 An anthology • Utrecht conference corruption et à la faiblesse de certains pays, ils ont réussi à faire de plusieurs http://eu.wiley.com/ This sixth edition provides a collec- • News États africains de véritables plaques tion of articles on the changing pat- • An Elisad member: tournantes. Les quantités saisies ont Drugs in society: terns, problems, perspectives, and SIIS, Madrid grimpé en flèche : de moins d'une tonne Causes, concepts and control policies of drug use. It mainly focus- avant 2005, à 33 tonnes en 2007. This work focuses on the many critical ses on the social contexts in which • A new member: L'Afrique et la drogue ont, certes, une areas of America's drug problem, pro- drug usage and policies occur, and Drugtext Foundation vieille histoire commune. L'héroïne du viding a foundation for rational deci- presents theoretical and descriptive Sud asiatique y transite depuis une sion making within this complex and material drawn from both ethnographic • Publications trentaine d'années. Le cannabis y est multi-disciplinary field. Broken into and quantitative sources. It features 42 • OnlineDocs cultivé à peu près partout. L'ampleur three sections: Understanding the pro- selections that cover illegal drugs • Agenda de la croissance du trafic de cocaïne blem, gangs and drugs, and fighting (amphetamines, opiates, marijuana, dans cette partie du monde est inquié- back, topics covered include the busi- cocaine, crack, hallucinogens, and tante. En Amérique du sud et en Amé- ness of drugs and the role of organized club drugs) as well as legal substances Marchés criminels. Un acteur rique centrale, les organisations crimi- crime in the drug trade, drug legaliza- (alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs). global nelles liées à la drogue sont parvenues tion and decriminalization, law enfor- Other topics include gender and addic- à déstabiliser des États. Certains pays cement strategies, an analysis of the tion; cross-cultural research into drug Criminal markets. A global actor africains pourraient connaître le même socialization process of drug use and use; the relationship between drugs, Des saisies européennes de contrefa- sort. Au terme de plusieurs années abuse, and a historical discussion of violence, and street crime; the symbo- çons en croissance de 1 000% de 1998 d'enquête, en particulier en Afrique de drug abuse that puts the contemporary lic meaning of drug taking; injection à 2004, 300 000 personnes tuées cha- l'Ouest, l'auteur lève le voile sur ce drug problem into perspective. drug use; the social construction of que année par des armes illicites, une développement fulgurant du trafic de Michael D Lyman - Anderson Publishing prise record de 684 kg de cocaïne en cocaïne qui fait peser une lourde (Elsevier imprint), 6th edition, Dec. France en 2009, une contrebande de menace sur l'Afrique. 2010, 552p - ISBN: 978-1437744507 cigarettes aux proportions industriel- Christophe Champin - Bruxelles : www.elsevierdirect.com/ les, des infiltrations mafieuses dans André Versaille, avril 2010, 160p - l'administration italienne, une explo- ISBN : 978-2874950766 Pleasure, pain and profit: sion de la consommation européenne www.andreversailleediteur.com/ European perspectives on drugs de cocaïne, un processus de suivi en To better understand the frequent fai- matière de corruption instauré envers Cannabis and philosophy: What lures to achieve the drug policy goals la Bulgarie et la Roumanie, le were we just talking about? Président mexicain déclarant le crime of supply and demand reduction, we organisé hors de contrôle… Pris isolé- The debate on the status and legality need more clarity about the motives ment, ces témoignages relèvent des of cannabis continues to gain momen- and mechanisms of drug use and drug faits divers aussi vite annoncés qu'ou- tum. Here, personal stories combined dealing. Much of the emphasis in bliés. Ensemble, ils brossent un por- with scientific reports try to sharpen social and political discourse, and in trait pointilliste du degré de magnitude some of the philosophical issues asso- research publications, is on the pains atteint par l'économie criminelle. Une ciated with cannabis use. The book: that drug users may experience in the vérité se dessine : en certains territoi- • Provides a professionally informed form of physical and mental health res, il n'est guère que le crime pour discussion on cannabis usage in rela- problems, social exclusion and margi- être organisé. La globalisation du tion to philosophical inquiry; nalisation. This book, which concen- trates on Europe, does not overlook crime sera probablement un sujet • Considers the meaning of a 'high', these issues, but tries to understand majeur du XXIe siècle, au même titre the morality of smoking marijuana for the pleasures that drug users are see- que la guerre froide au XXe siècle et la pleasure, the slippery slope to more king, such as the positive psychoactive colonisation au XIXe. Ces grands trafics dangerous drugs, and the human drive effects they feel, the positive meanings et l'économie criminelle qu'ils repré- to alter our consciousness; they attach to drugs and the interven- sentent sont rarement envisagés dans • Not only incorporates contributions tions made to improve their quality of leur ensemble. Guidé par un arbitrage from philosophers, psychologists, life. The profits that accrue from the entre rentabilité d'un trafic et son ris- drugs trade are also examined, not que pénal, le crime organisé ne se limite pas à une mono-activité mais embrasse le vaste spectre de l'illicite. Fort de ce constat, cet ouvrage pro- pose une mise en perspective globale, couvrant les angles morts constitués par les liens entre différents marchés criminels. En retraçant les contours de ces flux, il expose les rapports sym- biotiques entre globalisation du crime, géopolitique de l'illicite et développe- ment économique. Au fil des pages se révèle ce que l'auteur désigne comme « le soleil noir de la mondialisation ». Au-delà de l'écume des faits, force est de reconnaître et d'explorer cette nou- velle sphère de représentation des relations internationales. Mickaël R Roudaut - Puf, Paris, Juin 2010, 304p - ISBN : 978-2130573425 www.puf.com/ n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 12 skeleton. This book provides a concise overview of the main principles and reactions of steroid chemistry. Daniel Lednicer - Wiley-Blackwell, Nov. 2010, 152p - ISBN: 978- 0470660843 http://eu.wiley.com/

• Editorial Förderung bei Sucht und Abhängigkeit • Utrecht conference The inception of addiction and • News dependence • An Elisad member: Suchtprobleme im Jugendalter sind SIIS, Madrid durch mediale Horrormeldungen • A new member: zunehmend ins öffentliche Bewusst- sein geraten. Nicht nur die pädagogische Drugtext Foundation Fachwelt ist dadurch aufgeschreckt • Publications und zu einer umfassenden Reaktion • OnlineDocs herausgefordert worden. Das Buch L'Aide-mémoire d'addictologie beschäftigt sich vor diesem Hintergrund en 46 notions • Agenda zunächst aus einer entwicklungsbezo- The addictology checklist in 46 genen Perspektive mit dem Jugendalter concepts als kritischer Phase für die Entstehung drug problems and moral panics; pre- von Abhängigkeit. Neben der substanz- Plus de 6 millions d'individus sont vention and treatment; the drug legali- gebundenen Abhängigkeit, dem Drogen- victimes d'addictions. Si la consom- zation debate. It includes 13 new arti- missbrauch und der Drogenabhängigkeit, mation d'alcool, de tabac ou de canna- cles that address emerging patterns of werden ebenso die substanzunabhän- bis baisse, les ivresses chez les jeunes drug use and policy debates, crystal sont de plus en plus brutales et inten- methamphetamine abuse among gay gigen Süchte, wie Esstörungen, Mediensucht und Computerspielsucht, ses, et la consommation de cocaïne men, ecstasy and the club scene, ana- grimpe... Contrôler l'usage et soigner bolic steroid use by bodybuilders, ihre Ursachen und ihre Verbreitung erörtert. Das Buch behandelt dann aus- les victimes ne suffit pas. Pour éviter medical marijuana, prescription opiate que les prises de risque excessives ne abuse, the recent use of khat in the führlich die präventiven Maßnahmen gegen Abhängigkeit und vor allem se déplacent et que de nouvelles US, and salvia divinorum use among addictions n'apportent de nouveaux college students. Fördermaßnahmen, die beim Vorliegen von Abhängigkeit hilfreich sein können. dommages, il faut se poser les ques- James A Inciardi & Karen McElrath - tions des mesures éducatives et pré- Oxford University Press, July 2010, Hannah Schott - Kohlhammer, Dez. ventives. Comprendre et donner du 560p - ISBN: 978-0199739295 2010, 130 S. - ISBN: 978-3170215580 sens pour agir : cet aide-mémoire pré- www.oup.com/us/ http://shop2.kohlhammer.de/ senté sous forme de 46 fiches regrou- pées en 5 thèmes se présente comme Substance abuse in Canada Addiction medicine: un outil indispensable à tout soignant Substance use and abuse has existed Science and practice pour y parvenir. in virtually all cultures throughout The spectrum of addiction disorders Alain Morel, Jean-Pierre Couteron, human history. Canada is no exception presents practitioners with numerous Patrick Fouilland - Paris, Dunod, juil- to this. But what may come as a sur- challenges, among them the widening let 2010, 456p - ISBN : 978- prise are the rates and the substances gap between a growing evidence base 2100534548 that are most liable to abuse in this and the translation of this knowledge www.dunod.com/ country. A recent study estimates that into treatment outcomes. This book the cost of substance abuse is equiva- addresses this disconnect, explaining Introduction to mental health- lent to $1,267 for every people in the role of brain function in drug substance use Canada in terms of lost productivity, taking and other habit-forming beha- This book is the first in a six-volume health care, and law enforcement. And viors, and applying this biobehavioral series addressing a vital and complex this does not include the personal cost. framework to the delivery of evidence- area of contemporary healthcare, with It is an issue worth considering. This based treatment. Current behavioral equally complex implications for indi- book presents the latest research, and and medical therapies are discussed, viduals and their families, health pro- interview data on substance abuse, and the book's close attention to social fessionals and society. Although its taking into account Canada's regional context provides an added lens for international recognition as an issue of differences. It describes the models personalizing treatment. It covers: critical importance is growing, clear used by experts to explain substance • Diagnosis and classification. • Neuro- guidance for professionals on mental abuse and addiction, and evaluates the biological and molecular theories of health-substance use and its treatment various social policy, psychological, addiction • Behavioral concepts of has been hard to find. The series has and medical solutions. addiction. • Clinical aspects of addic- been written to address this need, Marilyn Herie & Wayne Skinner - tion to a wide range of substances concentrating on concerns, dilemmas Oxford University Press, July 2010, • Science-based treatment options: and concepts that impact on the life 272p - ISBN: 978-0195433876 pharmacotherapy, pharmacogenetics, and well-being of affected individuals http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/ potential vaccines, brief and compliance and those close to them, and the future enhancing interventions, cognitive direction of practice, education, Steroid chemistry at a glance behavioral treatment, behavioral research, services, interventions, and The term steroid has become virtually management, and other psychosocial treatment. This first book outlines the synonymous with drug abuse in sport interventions • Behavioral addictions specific health issues, experiential to the majority of the public. However and their treatment • Addiction in spe- aspects, treatment options and wider these steroids - androgens - actually cific populations, including adoles- implications of mental health-subs- comprise only a single relatively small cents, the elderly, pregnant women, tance use, as well as defining the field, class of biologically active steroids, and health care professionals • Legal, through contributions from internatio- and are overshadowed by a large col- disability, and rehabilitation issues. nal experts and practitioners. lection of compounds, a sizeable num- Bankole A Johnson - Springer, Nov. David B Cooper - Radcliffe Pub., Oct. ber of which are commercial drugs 2010, 1450p - ISBN: 978-1441903372 2010, 224p - ISBN: 978-1846193392 that share the same structural carbon www.springer.com/ www.radcliffe-oxford.com/ n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 13 Developing services in mental most modern research and develop- Scripting addiction: The politics health-substance use ment in the field of drug abuse and of therapeutic talk and addiction, and address the needs of the This is the second volume of the series American sobriety very active theoretical, basic, and cli- described in the previous abstract. It This book takes readers into the world nical research in the field. tackles service development: how to of mainstream American addiction evaluate the current state from a firm Joris C Verster, Kathleen Brady, Marc treatment, a world where practitioners knowledge base, plan and manage Galanter & Patricia Conrod - Humana evaluate how drug users speak about change to provide better services, and Press, Nov. 2010, 750p - ISBN: 978- themselves, and where the ideal of • Editorial continue monitoring and evaluating 1603275156 “healthy” talk is promoted, monitored, them on an ongoing basis. www.springer.com/ and identified as the primary sign of • Utrecht conference David B Cooper - Radcliffe therapeutic progress. It explores why • News Publishing, Oct. 2010, 246p - ISBN: Psychology do addiction counselors dedicate • An Elisad member: 978-1846193408 of addictive behaviour themselves to reconciling drug users' SIIS, Madrid www.radcliffe-oxford.com/books/book This concise introduction will help relationship to language in order to detail.aspx?ISBN=1+84619+340+0 cement students' understanding of the reconfigure their relationship to drugs. • A new member: different theories surrounding addic- It traces the interactions between Drugtext Foundation Women, children, and addiction tive behaviour. The authors examine counselors, clients, and case managers at “Fresh beginnings” an addiction This book draws on the expertise of both behavioural and substance-related • Publications treatment program for homeless 35 experts in the field of addiction disorders, with chapters discussing women in the midwestern US. Acutely • OnlineDocs medicine. It begins by placing current biological, cognitive and moralistic aware of the high stakes of self-repre- • Agenda attitudes towards addicted women in a perspectives, all organized around the sentation, experienced clients analyze historical context, and continues with key stages of addiction. contributions on the relationship of and learn to effectively perform pres- gender to substance abuse research, Antony C Moss & Kyle R Dyer - cribed ways of speaking, a mimetic addiction as a general health issue in Palgrave Macmillan (Insights in practice they call “flipping the script”. women, and ethical dilemmas faced Psychology series), Aug. 2010, 192p - It also examines how decades of when approaching drug use during ISBN: 978-0230272224 clinical theorizing about addiction, pregnancy. It discusses high-risk pre- www.palgrave.com/ language, self-knowledge, and sobriety gnancies and HIV infection related to is manifested in interactions between maternal drug abuse. It details specific Sucht im Alter - Altern und counselors and clients, and demonstra- pharmacotherapy such as methadone Sucht: Grundlagen, Klinik, tes the complex cultural roots of the and buprenorphine, and assesses Verlauf und Therapie powerful clinical ideas that shape society's punitive view toward illicit therapeutic transactions. Aging and addiction: drug using women. Finally, it descri- Principles, clinic, and treatment Summerson Carr - Princeton Univer- bes outcomes of newborns, infants and sity Press, Nov 2010, 336p - ISBN: children born following intrauterine Suchterkrankungen im Alter gehören 978-0691144504 drug exposure. zu den Gesundheitsproblemen, die http://press.princeton.edu/tit- Loretta Finnegan & Stephen Kandall - von der Medizin lange Zeit vernach- les/9337.html Routledge, Nov. 2010, 304p - ISBN: lässigt wurden. Obwohl hier eine 978-0415601030 Veränderung eingesetzt hat, bestehen Addiction for nurses nach wie vor große Wissenslücken, www.routledge.com/ Nurses are key agents in addressing vielfältige Vorurteile und unzureichende alcohol and drug misuse at individual, Versorgungsangebote. Neben dem? Drug abuse and addiction family, and community levels. klassischen? Substanzmissbrauch von in medical illness. Causes, Addiction nursing is central to the Alkohol und Tranquilizern behandelt consequences, and treatment assessment, management, and care of das Werk auch Nikotin, Schmerzmittel This book contains 62 chapters cove- people with problematic use of psy- und illegale Drogen. Grundlagen, ring drugs of abuse and how they play choactive substances. This textbook Diagnostik, Klinik und Therapie wer- a role in a wide range of medical ill- for students explains the role of the den praxisnah dargestellt. Ein eigenes nesses. It discusses how, for some nurse at each stage of intervention. Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit den diseases, drug abuse will cause or Early chapters approach the subject Zusammenhängen von Suchtmittel- enhance the progress of that from sociological, historical, and cul- disease/disorder, while other diseases konsum und kognitiven Beeinträch- tural perspectives, covering significant may result in or enhance drug abuse. tigungen bzw. Demenz. topics such as the nature of addiction, Chapters deal with this crucial, bi- Dirk K Wolter - Kohlhammer, Dez. its social context, and addiction directional relationship, cover vir- 2010, 250 Seiten - ISBN: 978- theory. It then presents vital informa- tually every core in the subject area, 3170209046 tion about each of the main areas of from the established theories to the http://shop2.kohlhammer.de/ addiction (nicotine, alcohol, opiates, cannabis, psychostimulants, and hallu- cinogens), with clinical and practical guidance on recognition, assessment, and treatment intervention strategies. Further chapters consider dealing with emergencies, blood-borne viruses, harm reduction, and work with speci- fic client groups (e.g. black and ethnic minority communities, or those with special needs). G Hussein Rassool - Wiley-Blackwell, Oct. 2010, 232p - ISBN: 978- 1405187466 http://eu.wiley.com/ n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 14 Acupuncture therapy for neurological diseases This book discusses current research, applying various neuroscience approa- ches, on the effect of acupuncture on neurological diseases and the under- lying mechanisms. Apart from basic principles of acupuncture, topics • Editorial include acupuncture analgesia, acu- puncture-drug balanced anesthesia, • Utrecht conference cardiac diseases, epilepsy, neuroimmuno • News suppression, depression, smoking, and drug addiction. The book summarizes • An Elisad member: clinical applications of various acu- SIIS, Madrid points and optimal conditions in the • A new member: treatment of neurological diseases. Drugtext Foundation Ying Xia, Xiaoding Cao, Gencheng Wu & Jieshi Cheng - Springer, Aug. • Publications 2010, 400p - ISBN: 978-3642108556 • OnlineDocs www.springer.com/ • Agenda Mindfulness-based relapse pre- vention for addictive behaviors. Recovery from addiction A clinician's guide Ordinary recovery: in communal living settings. The book presents an innovative The Oxford House model relapse prevention programme that Mindfulness, addiction, and Research on treatment outcome for integrates mindfulness practices with the path of lifelong sobriety addictive disorders indicates that a evidence-based cognitive and behavio- The key to ongoing freedom from variety of interventions are effective. ral strategies. Clinicians get essential alcoholism or any other kind of addic- However, the progress clients make in information and materials for imple- tion is right before us, here and now, treatment frequently is undermined by menting the approach with their clients. in the ordinary and perfect present the lack of an alcohol and drug free In eight carefully structured group moment. The problem is that addic- living environment. This book suggests sessions, participants gain awareness tions are often the result of our efforts that treatment providers have not paid of their own inner experiences, step to escape living in the present in the sufficient attention to the social out of habitual patterns of thought and first place. The author's approach uses environments where clients live after behavior that can trigger relapse, and mindfulness (a nonjudgmental aware- residential treatment or while atten- acquire concrete skills to meet the ness of our moment-to-moment expe- ding outpatient programs. It describes day-to-day challenges of recovery. rience), story, and meditation to help the need for alcohol and drug free It includes detailed guidelines for alcoholics and others learn to come living environments, then reviews the facilitating each session, examples back to the present moment and find history of communal living for reco- of guided meditations, and more than healing there. Emerging scientific vering addicts, and provides examples 20 reproducible handouts. research suggests that mindfulness can of the Oxford House model, which is Alan Marlatt, Sarah W Bowen, Neha help prevent addiction relapse. a widespread communal living option Chawla - Guilford Press, Nov. 2010, William Alexander - Trumpeter Books, for over 10,000 recovering persons in 180p - ISBN: 978-1606239872 Oct. 2010, 176p - ISBN: 978- the US. The structure and philosophy www.guilford.com/ 1590308288 of Oxford Houses are presented along www.shambhala.com/ with recent outcome studies providing 12 smart things to do when support for their effectiveness. the booze and drugs are gone: Sane: Mental illness, addiction Leonard Jason, Joseph R Ferrari - Choosing emotional sobriety and the 12 Steps Routledge, Dec. 2010, 160p - ISBN: through self-awareness and In this recovery handbook, the author 978-0415610100 right action applies the wisdom earned from her www.routledge.com/ The author offers a fresh list of smart struggle with a severe mental illness and addiction to offer an honest exa- So you think you dont know things to do to attain and sustain emo- tional sobriety. Whether it's called mination of the 12 steps of AA for one? Addiction and recovery in “dry drunk” or “white knuckle those with co-occurring addiction and clergy and congregations sobriety” it's that stage in recovery mental health disorders. Relaying her Hard as it is to accept or believe, clergy when we realize that “putting the plug recovery experiences, and those of the and congregations sometimes struggle in the jug” isn't enough. The next step people with whom she has shared her mightily with patterns of alcoholism, is taking responsibility for the emotio- journey, she guides readers through substance abuse and codependency. It nal immaturity that fuels the addictive the maze of special issues that make pollutes congregational ministry in personality. The author draws on the working each step a unique challenge ways both seen and unseen, lasting for teachings of Bill W. and psychotherapy for those with co-occurring disorders. generations and sabotaging efforts to pioneers to offer 12 hallmarks of emo- She addresses the difficulty that many restore health. Unpacking a common, tional sobriety that give people the with a mental illness have with fin- but rarely addressed problem - from confidence to be accountable for their ding support in a recovery program the theological dimensions of code- behavior, ask for what they want and that often discourages talk about emo- pendency to treatment of the minister need, and grow and develop a deeper tional problems, and the therapy and and congregation - clergy experts Platt trust in the process of life. This inclu- medication that they require. At the and Knudsen cite real-life experiences des: understanding who you are and same time, she reveals how the 12 with clergy addiction and congrega- what's important to you; learning not steps can offer insights, spiritual tions in crisis in this ecumenical to take others' reactions personally; sustenance, and practical guidance to approach to recovery. trusting your inner compass; taking enhance stability for those who truly responsibility for your reactions to have to approach sobriety one day at a Nancy Van Dyke Platt & Chilton R time. Knudsen - Church publishing / problematic situations. Marya Hornbacher - Hazelden, July Morehouse, Nov 2010, 144p - ISBN: Allen Berger - Hazelden, Sept. 2010, 2010, 180p - ISBN: 978-1592858248 978-0819224125 192p - ISBN: 978-1592858217 www.churchpublishing.org/ www.hazelden.org/ www.hazelden.org/ n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 15 Soul silence: A unique approach drugs; medicalizing distress; and the and the problems this caused to that to mastering the 11th step future of psychopharmacology. being put forward by the state. This could be through lobbying for change Recovering addicts who attend 12 step Joel Paris - Wiley-Blackwell, Aug. and also in the form of service provi- programs quickly learn that abstinence 2010, 224 p - ISBN: 978-0470745717 sion. Significantly, innovations in the hinge on a decision to turn over their http://eu.wiley.com/ drugs field often prefigured wider will and life to a power greater than developments in voluntarism, in health themselves. They also learn, through Prescription pain killers. History, and social care, and also in patient the 11th step, that prayer and medita- pharmacology and treatment involvement. Drawing on archival and tion are vital tools for making this • Editorial In recent years, the media has inunda- interview based research, this book contact with this power. However, the ted us with coverage of the increasing takes the voluntary activity around • Utrecht conference 11th step can prove confusing. What abuse of prescription painkillers. This drugs as a case study through which exactly does it mean to pray and • News book offers current, comprehensive wider developments in the relationship meditate? How does one go about information on the history, social between the state and civil society can • An Elisad member: making conscious contact with a impact, pharmacology, and addiction be explored. SIIS, Madrid power greater than oneself? What do treatment for commonly abused, Alex Mold & Virginia Berridge - • A new member: you do if you are an atheist? The rea- highly addictive opiate prescription Palgrave Macmillan, April 2010, 256p lity is that recovering addicts who fail painkillers such as Oxycontin, Drugtext Foundation - ISBN: 978-0230521407 to embrace the 11th step often become Vicodin, Percocet, and Darvocet. disillusioned with the program and www.palgrave.com/ • Publications Marvin D Seppala - Hazelden, Oct. quit. Relapse can follow. This book • OnlineDocs 2010, 250p - ISBN: 978-1592859016 outlines a comprehensive program that Des plantes psychotropes. www.hazelden.org/ • Agenda specifically links prayer and medita- Initiations, thérapies et quêtes tion to recovery, offers clear defini- de soi Heroin: Its history, tions and instructions for these practi- pharmacology, and treatment Psychotropic plants. Initiation, ces, and teaches how to listen within therapy and search of the self for spiritual insights that are key to This updated second edition provides ongoing abstinence. new research into heroin's effects on Amanite tue-mouches, tabac, peyotl, ayahuasca, iboga, absinthe… toutes Peter Amato - HCI, Nov. 2010, 264p - the brain, changing attitudes and poli- cies about methadone and medications, ces plantes psychotropes sont consom- ISBN: 978-0757315305 mées dans de nombreuses sociétés, en www.hcibooks.com/ and different approaches to treating heroin addicts. Included are studies of Amérique du Sud, en Afrique, et au cœur même de l'Europe où des stages The use and misuse violence along the US-Mexican border - which has put heroin trafficking in sont organisés pour des personnes à la of psychiatric drugs: the spotlight - as well as a focus on recherche de nouvelles spiritualités. an evidence-based critique how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Les auteurs - anthropologues, ethno- Psychiatrists have access to various have made opium a valuable commo- pharmacologues, sociologues, philoso- effective drugs for treating patients. dity and a major source of funds for phes, psychologues, médecins - analy- However, bad results can be expected terrorists. Animated with personal sent les motivations des adeptes, les when they are over-used, prescribed stories and vignettes, the book puts a circonstances dans lesquelles se outside of evidence-based indications, human face on the long and complex déroulent ces pratiques, et les effets or given to the wrong patients. Too story behind this drug. somatiques et psychiques provoqués par les prises. Ils observent que ces many patients are either over-medica- Humberto Fernandez, et al. - Hazelden, ted or are misdiagnosed to justify usages séculaires peuvent s'inscrire Nov. 2010, 340p - ISBN: 978- aggressive treatment. While acknow- dans plusieurs cadres : initiations aux 1592858309 cultures shamaniques, thérapies ledging that many current agents are www.hazelden.org/ highly effective for the treatment of incluant des expériences menées auprès de toxicomanes, et quêtes spiri- certain disorders, this book criticizes Voluntary action and illegal their use outside of an evidence base. tuelles, à travers une réappropriation drugs. Health and society in Reviewing the relationship between occidentale dans la logique New Age. psychiatry and the pharmaceutical Britain since the 1960s Sans censure ni tabou, avec rigueur et industry and examining some contro- Illegal drug use has been seen as a un constant souci d'objectivité, ce versies, the text shows that scientific major problem facing British society livre nous offre, au croisement de evidence supports a more cautious since the 1960s, but relatively little plusieurs disciplines, des réflexions approach to drug therapy. Topics consideration has been given to the originales sur un sujet sensible et covered include: the history and way in which ordinary citizens sought controversé. science of psychopharmacology; to deal with its consequences. By set- Sébastien Baud & Christian mood stabilizers and mood instability; ting up voluntary organisations, Ghasarian - Paris, Imago, sept. 2010, antidepressants; prescribing for chil- groups and individuals attempted to 224p - ISBN : 978- 2849520925 dren and adolescents; alternatives to offer a different approach to drug use www.editions-imago.fr/ n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 16

• Editorial • Utrecht conference • News • An Elisad member: SIIS, Madrid • A new member: Drugtext Foundation • Publications • OnlineDocs • Agenda Lebensweltorientierung folgt dann their decision to join AA, and the dra- eine Darstellung der Methodik des matic details of how they got sober, Projekts mit den in ihm liegenden and how they've stayed sober for more Get it legal: End prohibition now! Möglichkeiten und Gegenläufigkeiten. than fifty years. Each story concludes with sage words of advice for others The author, Tommy Chong, is a sixty- Peter Westermeier - VDM Verlag Dr. in recovery. Those who share their eight-year-old writer and director, best Müller, Okt. 2010, 116 Seiten - ISBN: stories in this book are living proof known as half of the legendary comedy 978- 3639220940 that the human connection bonded by duo Cheech and Chong. The pair found www.morebooks.de/ the Twelve Steps has unsurpassed a wide audience through their stand- powers, and that AA is a programme up routines, comedy albums, and for generations to come. popular films about the hippie, free- ALCOHOL love, and (especially) drug culture William G Borchert & Michael movement. A father of five, Chong The book that started it all. Fitzpatrick - Hazelden, Oct. 2010, lives with his wife, Shelby, in The original working manuscript 250p - ISBN: 978-1592858583 California and performs with her at of Alcoholics Anonymous www.hazelden.org/ comedy clubs across the country. This This book offers fresh insights into the is his last book. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum history and foundation of the revolu- Disorder: Management and Tommy Chong - Quick American tionary Alcoholics Anonymous pro- policy perspectives of FASD Archives, Nov. 2010, 192p - ISBN: 978- gramme. Reproduced in this elegant 0932551948 gift edition with an introduction and Reflecting the recent increased public www.infibeam.com/Books/ notes by a panel of celebrated AA his- awareness of the topic, this is the first torians, the original working manus- and most comprehensive resource for Ich sehe was, was du nicht cript is the missing link in our unders- over a decade on the molecular basis, siehst!: Eine subjektive, fotogra- tanding of what transpired between prevalence, treatment options, socioe- fische Dokumentation der AA founder Bill Wilson's first draft of conomic impact and prevention strate- gies of FASD. Edited by world-renow- Lebenswelten von Junkies in Alcoholics Anonymous and the first published edition. In January 1939, ned experts, this compendium includes München und was Soziale Wilson and other founders distributed the latest research results to provide Arbeit daraus lernen könnte 400 copies of his typescript to every- new insights and realistic estimations I see what you don't: A subjective, one they could think of "who might be of FASD frequencies in Western com- photographic documentation of the concerned with the problem of alcoho- munities. An invaluable resource for lives of junkies in Munich and what lism," to test out the program. As the every professional dealing with the social work could learn from it loan copies were returned, suggestions diagnosis, prevention and treatment of FASD, from researchers via health pro- Ausgehend vom Konzept der Lebens- for revision were considered and fessionals to social workers. weltorientierung nach Hans Thiersch, written out in colored pencil on one richtet diese Arbeit ihren Blick auf die master copy that was submitted for Edward P Riley, Sterling Clarren, publication. Lebenswelten von Heroinkonsumenten Joanne Weinberg, Egon Jonsson - in München. Junkies sollen mit Anonymous - Hazelden, Nov. 2010, Wiley-Blackwell, Nov. 2010, 482p - Einmalkameras ihren Lebensalltag aus 248p - ISBN: 978-1592859474 ISBN: 978-3527328390 ihrer Sicht heraus dokumentieren. Ziel www.hazelden.org/ http://eu.wiley.com/ des Projektes ist es vorrangig, daraus neue Perspektiven für die Soziale 1000 years of sobriety: After the tears: Helping adult Arbeit mit der Heroinkonsumenten 20 people x 50 years children of alcoholics heal their herauszuarbeiten. Nach einer Hinfüh- This book features the moving personal childhood trauma rung zur Fragestellung der Arbeit, accounts of twenty men and women If you are one of the millions of Adult process that is integral to recovery. This revised edition discusses the wird zunächst die Zielgruppe in ihrer who have each remained sober for Children of Alcoholics (ACOA), the sozialen Sonderposition als Randgruppe more than fifty years. These are the cost of your childhood pain can be latest research and offers insights on und doch fester Bestandteil der real "old timers," keepers of the wis- unbearable. You may have learned living a good life despite a dysfunctio- Gesellschaft herausgearbeitet. Den dom, men and women from around how to “survive” but are you “living” nal childhood by tackling issues such nächsten Schritt bildet eine schritt- the world who are among the dwind- your life? Do you fear normal as intimacy, sibling relationships, weise Annäherung an das Konzept der ling generations who joined Alcoholics conflict? Do you blame yourself when codependency, breaking the alcoholic Lebensweltorientierung im Allgemei- Anonymous when Bill W. was still something goes wrong - even when it pattern, building a relationship with nen, seine Bedeutung in der niedrig- alive. The accounts collected here fol- isn't your fault? Are you a chaos jun- the inner child, forgiveness, and ope- schwelligen Drogenarbeit und die low the time-tested formula used by kie? Or do you just fear relationships ning a window to spirituality. Forschungsaufgaben, die sich für die millions of people who share their because they are too difficult or too Jane Middelton-Moz & Lorie Dwinell Soziale Arbeit daraus ergeben. Exkursen stories of hope in AA meetings every painful? The authors take a deep look - HCI, 2nd ed., Nov 2010, 312p - ISBN: über die Inkonstanz von Lebensräumen day: They tell us what they were like into the origin and cost of childhood 978-0757315138 Heroinabhänger und die Grenzen der as active alcoholics, what triggered pain, as well as the grief resolution www.hcibooks.com/ n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 17 monde en prend, certes... mais beau- nuing education. The volume includes coup peuvent s'en sortir. tables, boxed clinical pearls, and clini- Laurent Karila & Sophie Verney- cal vignettes, and appendixes. Caillat - Flammarion, août 2010, AL Peterson, Carlos R Jaén & MW 173p - ISBN: 978-2081245396 Vander Weg - Hogrefe & Huber http://editions.flammarion.com/ (series Advances in Psychotherapy, Evidence-Based Practice, Vol. 21), Dec. 2010, 100p - ISBN: 978- TOBACCO 0889373242 • Editorial www.hogrefe.com/ • Utrecht conference Smoking related behaviour and • News attitudes 2009 INTERNET AND • An Elisad member: This report examines the prevalence SIIS, Madrid of cigarette smoking, consumption, NEW MEDIA ADDICTION dependency and smokers' perceptions • A new member: of relative risk and giving up. It inclu- Cyber junkie: Escape Drugtext Foundation des advice from medical professionals, the gaming and Internet trap • Publications as well as people's opinions on smo- As video gaming and Internet surfing king restrictions and second-hand continue to grow, and more and more • OnlineDocs smoking. A similar document, but on people are isolating themselves, tur- • Agenda years 2008/09 is available in the ning their backs on reality, ignoring Online documents pages. family and friends, and losing their The (UK) Office for National Statistics sleep and even their jobs due to exces- Functional plasticity and gene- - Palgrave-MacMillan, Aug. 2010, sive use of video games and the tic variation: Insights into the 127p - ISBN: 978-0230281547 Internet, and they continue to do so neurobiology of alcoholism www.palgrave.com/ despite harmful consequences to their With recent advances of modern medi- mental, physical, and spiritual health. cine more people reach the 'elderly Tabac, alcool, drogues : The author, a recovering video game age' around the globe and the number la prévention au lycée addict, uses scientific and social research, complemented by his and of dementia cases are ever increasing. Tobacco, alcohol, drugs : prevention others' stories, to give compulsive This book is about various aspects of in secondary school dementia and provides its readers with gamers and surfers - and their family Tabac, alcool, drogues : que fait le a wide range of thought-provoking and friends - a step-by-step guide for système éducatif français ? À l'instar sub-topics in the field of dementia. recovery. He outlines the ways that The ultimate goal of this monograph de nos voisins européens, la préven- “cyber junkies” exhibit the classic is to stimulate other physicians' and tion des addictions auprès des jeunes signs of addiction and reveals how neuroscientists' interest to carry out est en effet l'une des principales prio- they can recover by following a pro- more research projects into pathogene- rités de santé publique dans notre gramme similar to those used for other sis of this devastating group of disea- pays. Pour autant, il reste difficile addictions. Readers learn to identify ses. d'identifier ce qu'est le rôle du système whether they have an addiction, find éducatif dans ce domaine. Cet ouvrage the resources to get individualized Matthew Reilly & David M Lovinger - vise à faire le point sur la question de help, and regain a rewarding life away Elsevier, imprint of Academic Press, la prévention des addictions à partir from the screen by learning new beha- International Review of Neurobiology, d'un travail de terrain réalisé dans dix- viors that free them from the cravings Vol. 91, Sept. 2010, 360p - ISBN: 978- huit lycées et à partir d'outils théori- that rule their lives. Includes a guide 0123812766 ques issus tant des sciences de l'éduca- for parents having addicted children. www.elsevier.com/ tion que de la santé publique. Kevin Roberts - Hazelden, Nov. 2010, Une histoire de poudre. Didier Jourdan & Franck Pizon - 204p - ISBN: 978-1592859481 La cocaïne, tout le monde en Paris, L'Harmattan, avril 2010, 251p - www.hazelden.org/ ISBN : 978-2296117617 prend. Pourquoi ? www.editions-harmattan.fr/ A history of powder. Cocaine, eve- ryone takes. Why? Nicotine and tobacco depen- Longtemps, la cocaïne s'est limitée, en dence France, à un ghetto doré touchant le This volume provides health care pro- show-biz, la pub, la mode, les golden viders with practical and evidence- boys, la jet-set... Depuis une dizaine based guidance on the diagnosis and d'années, sa consommation s'est bana- treatment of nicotine and tobacco lisée. Tout le monde en prend mainte- dependence. Tobacco use is the lea- nant, du chômeur au PDG, du mineur ding preventable cause of death in the au sujet âgé, de l'artiste inconnu à la world. Research over the past decades star, dans les villes comme dans les has led to the development of a num- campagnes. Les prix ont même chuté ber of evidence-based treatments for de moitié. Les « accros à la poudre » tobacco dependence that can be deli- consomment pour doper leur quotidien vered by health care professionals in a : la cocaïne leur donne l'illusion de variety of care settings. This book maîtriser leurs émotions, leurs com- aims to increase medical, mental portements. Cette redoutable « effica- health, and dental practitioners' access cité » initiale rend progressivement to empirically supported interventions, dépendant et les plonge dans l'enfer de with the hope that these methods will l'addiction. Psychiatre en addictologie, be incorporated into routine clinical le docteur Laurent Karila, avec la practice. The book is both a compact journaliste Sophie Verney-Caillat, “how-to” reference for clinicians and nous propose un tour d'horizon com- an ideal educational resource for stu- plet de la cocaïne et de son addiction. dents and for practice-oriented conti- Illustré d'exemples concrets chez les anonymes comme chez les people, il nous donne différentes clés pour aider les personnes cocaïnomanes. Tout le n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 18 • Targeting anti-drug public service Forthcoming books 2011 messages to sensation-seeking youth. Michael Bardo, Diana Fishbein, & DRUGS les, focusing on their regular drinking Richard Milich - Springer, Jan 2011, and extensive 'recreational' drug use. 350p - ISBN: 978-1441912671 Evidence versus politics: This new edition revisits these original www.springer.com/ Exploiting research in UK drug chapters, providing commentaries to policy making? discuss current implications of the ori- Vater, Mutter, Sucht. ginal publication, plus discussing the Wie erwachsene Kinder sucht- • Editorial The initial enthusiasm for the evidence- group at 22 and 27 years of age. The kranker Eltern trotzdem ihr based policy agenda has recently been • Utrecht conference book positions the journeys of these replaced with increasing skepticism. Glück finden können twenty-somethings against the ever- • News Critics point out that 'policy-based Father, mother, addiction. How changing backdrop of a consumption- evidence' characterizes the relationship adult children of addicted parents • An Elisad member: oriented leisure society, the rapid more accurately. Analyzing the role can still find happiness SIIS, Madrid expansion of the British night-time and nature of evidence in the context economy and the place of substance Viele Erwachsene aus Suchtfamilien • A new member: of UK drug policy and drawing on a use in contemporary social worlds. It übernehmen unfreiwillig Rollen auf range of theories of the policy process Drugtext Foundation presents the ways in which these der Bühne des Lebens, aus denen sie and research utilization, this book pur- • Publications young people have moved into the nur noch schwer aussteigen können. sues an alternative route for concep- Sie gelten im Leben durchaus als • OnlineDocs tualizing the evidence and policy world of work, long-term relationships and parenthood, and the changes in erfolgreich, fühlen sich im Inneren • Agenda connection, which moves beyond zero- dennoch nicht glücklich. Sie hatten sum statements of evidence-based the function and frequency of their drinking and drug-use patterns. von Kindesbeinen an einen Rivalen: policy and policy-based evidence. Sucht. Von Anfang an haben sie einen Mark Monaghan - Policy Press, Jan. Judith Aldridge, Fiona Measham, anderen Platz in ihrer Familie als Howard Parker, & Lisa Williams - 2011, 208p - ISBN: 978-1847426970 andere Kinder. Bei erkrankten Eltern www.policypress.co.uk/ Routledge, Feb 2011, 280p - ISBN: steht ihre Sucht zumeist an erster Stelle, 978-0415495530 die Kinder müssen sich daneben ihren Drug Nation: Patterns, www.routledge.com/ Platz erkämpfen. Die Folgen dieser problems, panics & policies Kindheit spüren sie oft täglich als Parents who misuse drugs and Erwachsene, ohne jedoch um die Humans have been using psychoactive alcohol: Effective interventions in Zusammenhänge zu wissen. Ob der drugs since ancient times. And drugs, social work and child protection Konkurrent Alkohol, Arbeit, Drogen in some way or other, affect all of our oder Magersucht heißt: die Kinder lives, whether by our own use, the use There is increasing public and profes- tragen Wunden davon, ihre Wunden of those we know, or even from just sional concern about the effect on tragen Masken. Die Autor lässt being a victim of drug related crime. children of parents who misuse drugs Betroffene selbst zu Wort kommen, This book provides a lucid introduction and/or alcohol. This book provides a zeigt Spuren und Wunden der Sucht- to some of the main health and social review of the problem, the issues kindheit, aber auch Wege zu einem issues related to illicit drugs use. It facing professionals involved in child glücklicheren Leben. reviews a range of popular drugs - welfare and a critique of approaches including amphetamines, cannabis, and interventions often used. The Waltraut Barnowski-Geiser - cocaine, ecstasy, heroin and LSD - authors offer guidance on best practice Affenkönig Verlag, Feb. 2011, 128 S. - whilst considering the law related to and how to implement effective inter- ISBN: 978- 3934933323 such substances. It dispels some of the ventions. Conclusions for policy and www.amazon.de/ many myths about drug use that exist, professional processes such as training offering a balanced perspective on and evaluation are also discussed. Innovative Hilfe- und Leistungs- issues of personal, local, national and Judith Harwin & Donald Forrester - angebote in der Drogenhilfe international importance. Wiley-Blackwell, Jan. 2011, 264p - Innovative support and service Martin Plant, Roy Robertson, Patrick ISBN: 978-0470871515 offers in the drug treatment system Miller & Moira Plant - Oxford http://eu.wiley.com/ Für die Bereiche Beratung, Betreuung University Press, Jan. 2011, 288p - und Behandlung in der Drogenhilfe ISBN: 978-0199544790 Inhibitory control and drug zeigt dieser Band Möglichkeiten der www.oup.com/us/ abuse prevention: From inhaltlichen Weiterentwicklung auf, research to translation die dazu beitragen können, den sich Illegal leisure revisited Some of the most promising findings stetig verändernden Leistungsanfor- This book updates the progress into about drug abuse come from research derungen der Klientel und der adulthood of the cohort of fourteen- into behavioral inhibitory control pro- Leistungsträger gerecht zu werden. In year-olds who were recruited and cesses. While this neurobiological den Beiträgen werden die theoretischen tracked until they were eighteen years approach has steadily influenced the Hintergründe und die praktischen old. Illegal Leisure (1998), described treatment of addiction, it has had only Handlungsmöglichkeiten in der their adolescent journeys and lifesty- minor effect on prevention efforts. Betreuung suchtmittelkonsumierender This book aims to correct this situation, und -abhängiger Jugendlicher im synthesizing what we know about the Strafvollzug erläutert sowie die psy- chosoziale Betreuung Substituierter neuromechanics of risk-taking, and und die Adaption als Leistung der mining its potential in addiction pre- Rehabilitation Abhängigkeitskranker vention. It reviews neurobehavioral dargestellt. Weitere Schwerpunkte sind studies regarding inhibitory control, das Ambulant Betreute Wohnen und discuss their implications for groups at der Sport als Möglichkeit der Stress- risk for impulse control deficits, and bewältigung. Abschließend werden apply these findings to the development konzeptionelle Weiterentwicklungen of innovative prevention strategies. in diesen Bereichen vorgestellt. Das Topics covered: • Genetic and envi- Buch wendet sich an Wissenschaftler ronmental determinants of risk-taking Innen und PrakterInnen in den behavior. • Impaired inhibitory control Bereichen Sozialpädagogik/ Soziale as a mechanism in drug abuse. • Child- Arbeit, Psychologie und Sozialtherapie. hood inhibitory control deficits and risk for substance use. • Social influence Peter Schay - VS Verlag, 2011, 189 in inhibitory control. • Translating Seiten - ISBN: 978-3531173917 research into advocacy and policy. www.vs-verlag.de/ n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 19 religious form, is little more than a Treating adult substance abuse remnant of the temperance movement. using family behavior therapy: It is a warning to stop using drugs. At A step-by-step approach its best, treatment provides practical advice and support for complete absti- Family Behavior Therapy (FBT) is an nence. At its worst, it demeans users evidence-based treatment that helps for a form of behaviour that is not well adult patients address substance abuse understood and threatens death if they as well as coexisting problem beha- do not stop. He argues that there is no viors, including family dysfunction, • Editorial universal agreement on what addiction employment, and mood disorders. The authors are the premier practitioners • Utrecht conference is and that drug abuse is little more than a catch-all term of no specific of FBT, and their book provides the • News meaning used to condemn behaviour practical, step-by-step guidance needed • An Elisad member: that is socially unacceptable. Through to use this cost-effective intervention SIIS, Madrid observations, life history interviews, method with clients. It contains des- and informal conversations with resi- criptions of each component of the • A new member: dents and staff, he shows how both treatment in addition to case examples, Drugtext Foundation programs use the same basic techniques worksheets, and handouts. of ideological persuasion, methods of Brad Donohue & Daniel N Allen - • Publications social control, and the same proposed John Wiley & Sons, Feb 2011, 320p - • OnlineDocs zero tolerance as they endeavour to ISBN: 978-0470621936 • Agenda transform clients from addicts to citi- http://eu.wiley.com/ zens or from sinners to disciples. Daniel E Hood - Transaction Pub., Jan Group therapy for substance A man's workbook: A program 2011, 234p - ISBN: 978-1412814638 use disorders. A motivational for treating addiction www.transactionpub.com/ cognitive-behavioral approach The book offers a companion product This book presents an evidence-based that is tied to the Helping men recover Hypnoquit: How to break free approach to conducting therapy groups facilitator's guide. It has four modules of any addiction - for ever for persons with substance use disorders. (self, relationships, sexuality, and spi- Psychotherapist and hypnotherapist, The approach integrates cognitive- rituality) and allows men to process the author has worked with thousands behavioral, motivational interviewing, and record the therapeutic experience. of people struggling with addiction. and relapse prevention techniques, It contains exercises for use in group Using a simple effective self-hypnosis while capitalizing on the power of sessions, summaries of information technique, she can help you to quit group processes. Clinicians are provi- presented from the facilitator's guide, your particular addiction for good. ded with a detailed intervention frame- and reflection questions and activities With plenty of questionnaires, self- work and clear-cut strategies for helping for use after group sessions. There is help tips, information boxes and case clients to set and meet their own treat- also a criminal justice version of the histories, this book can liberate you ment goals. Ready-to-use reproducible book which is designed specifically from addiction and help you to enjoy assessment tools, handouts, homework for men in criminal justice settings. life again. During hypnotherapy, you exercises, and session outlines are Stephanie S Covington & Dan Griffin will be able to access your subcons- supplied in a large-size format. - Wiley-Blackwell, Jan. 2011, 256p - cious mind and effectively delete the Linda Carter Sobell & Mark B. Sobell ISBN: 978-0470486573 behaviours and thoughts that control - Routledge, March 2011, 270p - ISBN: http://eu.wiley.com/ your behaviour in the first place. You 978-1609180515 will then be able to reprogram your www.routledge.com/ Survivors of addiction: mind with life-enhancing thoughts and Narratives of recovery behaviours. It includes an audio CD, Integrated group therapy for and is also available in an audiobook. The book draws on 15 first-hand nar- bipolar disorder and substance ratives to provide an overview of how Susan Hepburn - Little, Brown Book abuse and why people become addicted, and Group / Hachette UK, Jan 2011, 176p Packed with practical clinical tools, explores what happens after the addic- - ISBN: 978-0749952334 this book presents an empirically sup- tion is left behind. Divided into four www.littlebrown.co.uk/ ported treatment expressly designed sections, it covers: being caught up in for clients with both bipolar disorder addiction; how and why users stop Substance abuse disorders : and substance use disorders. Integrated being addicted; the early days after Evidence and experience group therapy teaches essential reco- surviving addiction; and long-term Substance abuse disorders are among very behaviors and relapse prevention outcomes. By considering psychody- the most prevalent psychiatric disor- skills that apply to both illnesses. The namic and Jungian perspectives, and ders and are frequently comorbid with volume provides a complete session- clinical vignettes, it examines the pro- other psychiatric and health conditions by-session overview of the approach, cess of recovery from addiction. and accompanied by social problems; including clear guidelines for setting Mary Addenbrooke - Routledge, March however, they remain under-recogni- up and running groups, implementing 2011, 248p - ISBN: 978-1583917251 zed and under-treated. Many physi- www.routledge.com/ cians and mental health practitioners receive little-to-no training in the Addiction treatment: identification and treatment of these Comparing religion and science disorders. Approaches to their preven- in application tion include some of the major success stories in modern public health as well The book is an ethnography that com- as some of the deepest controversies pares two types of residential drug-free in public life. This book informs psy- treatment programs - religious, faith- chiatrists and a wide range of profes- based programs and science-based sional groups from health and social programs. Although these programs services about these disorders, their have originated from different ideolo- treatment and control. gical bases, in examining the day-to- day operations of each, the author Hamid Ghodse, Helen Herrman, Mario concludes that they are far more alike Maj, Norman Sartorius - Wiley, Jan than they are different. Drug-free 2011, 320p - ISBN: 978-0470745106 treatment today, whether in secular or http://eu.wiley.com/ n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 20 the cognitive-behavioral treatment The rehab myth. New medica- nalized and pop culture aspects of techniques, and troubleshooting fre- tions that conquer alcoholism alcohol use and misuse. Entries illumi- quently encountered problems. In a nate topics such as the favorite alco- Unbeknownst to most Americans large-size format for easy reference holic beverages in America; how they (even to many physicians), there are a and photocopying, the book features are manufactured; the role of alcohol range of medications that are very 29 reproducible handouts and forms. in everyday life, special events, and effective for treating alcoholism. Expert across history; the impacts of alcohol Roger Weiss & Hilary Smith Connery in addiction, the author explains how consumption on society and health; - Routledge, March 2011, 258p - ISBN: alcoholism is a disease with a genetic and much more. Connections and 978-1609180607 influence and why 12-step programs • Editorial influences from outside the US are www.routledge.com/ are not the solution. This new alcoho- also considered for some topics. • Utrecht conference lism recovery plan offers options and • News ALCOHOL flexibility for those seeking treatment Rachel Black - Greenwood Pub., Feb without the high cost and stigma of 2011, 256p - ISBN: 978-0313380488 • An Elisad member: traditional rehab. By completing a www.greenwood.com/ An introduction to sensible SIIS, Madrid four-factor checklist (current health, • A new member: drinking medical history, family history, and INTERNET & NEW Drugtext Foundation Up to a quarter of the UK population physical and mental symptoms) readers is currently believed to misuse alco- can determine whether they fit the MEDIA ADDICTION • Publications hol. This self-help book aimed specifi- treatment profile. Featuring personal • OnlineDocs cally at problem drinking uses cogni- stories, the book delivers a new set of Virtually you: The dangerous tive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help choices grounded in a medical model, powers of the e-personality • Agenda the reader to understand their drinking rather than a psychotherapeutic or spi- problems and offers useful tips to ritual one, that has begun to improve Whether sharing photos, following overcome them. Ideal for anyone who the landscape of alcoholism recovery. financial markets, or gambling, many fears that alcohol is starting to get out of us spend a shocking amount of time Bankole Johnson - Perseus Books / of control. online. While the Internet can enhance Da Capo Lifelong books, March 2011, well-being, the author has spent years Marcantonio Spada - Constable & 256 p - ISBN: 978-0738214269 treating patients whose lives have Robinson, April 2011, 32p - ISBN: 978- www.perseusacademic.com/ 1849015325 been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet www.constablerobinson.com/ Still standing: Addicts talk allows us to act with exaggerated about living sober Counselling for alcohol problems confidence, sexiness, and charisma. Stories heal, and the author, sober This new self, (“e-personality”), mani- This revised third edition is a practical since 2002, and a veteran of the punk fests in every email we send, guide to the steps that counsellors can rock and spoken word scene, brings Facebook friends we make, and “buy take on a day-to-day basis to help the stories from the trenches about now” button we click. Too potent to those who have problems with their how to get sober, stay sober, and live be confined online, however, e-perso- use of alcohol. It is recommended by sober. He goes beyond the 12-steps nality traits seep offline, too, making most alcohol counselling courses in with stories from the misfits, freaks, us impatient, unfocused, and urge-dri- the UK. It demonstrates the need to and weirdos that have come to reco- ven even after we log off. The book treat every client as an individual, very from a variety of backgrounds - uses examples from the author's pro- attempting to understand and therefore tattoo artists, bartenders, musicians to fessional experience to highlight this enable the client to understand, what help answer the question of living new phenomenon. The first scrutiny of they are doing and why. The book has sober. Topics include: 10 things every the virtual world's transformative been revised to take into account the new recovering addict should have; power on our psychology, it shows us current political, social and counsel- prayer and the atheist; job interviews; how real life is being reconfigured in ling context surrounding alcohol use. and ways addicts can be of service to the image of a chat room, and how our It includes a wider range of case-stu- normies. identity increasingly resembles that of dies, and many new ideas which will our avatar. help students and trainees develop the Bucky Sinister - Conari Press, Feb skills they need for working with their 2011, 176p - ISBN: 978-1573244763 Zachary Aboujaoude - W. W. Norton clients. There is also further guidance http://redwheelweiser.com/ & Co, March 2011, 352p - ISBN: 958- for generic or non-alcohol counsellors 0393070644 who face alcohol problems with their Alcohol in popular culture: http://books.wwnorton.com/ clients. An encyclopedia Richard DB Velleman - Sage (Coun- This encyclopedia presents an over- selling in Practice series), 3rd ed., Jan view of the entire history of alcohol in 2011, 232p - ISBN: 978-1848601505 America from the first colonies to pre- www.uk.sagepub.com/ sent day, focusing on the often-margi- n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 21

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Annual report 2010: the state of the drugs problem in Europe over by 2050. Statistics published Offers an overview of the drug situation across the 27 EU Member today show that Europe's drug-using States, Croatia, Turkey and Norway. Individual chapters dedicated to population is also ageing and that specific drugs are complemented by updates on: new drugs and emer- meeting the needs of older drug users ging trends; drug-related infectious diseases and deaths; and current is a growing issue for treatment ser- vices. This is particularly the case in legal, political, social and health responses to Europe's drugs problem. western countries which saw the Available in 22 languages. - EMCDDA, Nov. 2010, 99p - ISSN: 1609-6150 EU's first heroin epidemics in the Building a national drugs observatory: a joint handbook 1980s and 1990s. EMCDDA, Selected issue, Nov. 2010, 36p - ISBN: 978-9291684533 National drugs observatories have developed rapidly over the last two decades, both in the EU and in the Americas. Initially, there was no refe- Prevention profiles rence framework available: observatories were set-up using trial and What are countries in Europe doing to prevent illicit drug use? The error, taking into account different national contexts and resources. Prevention profiles section of the EMCDDA website provides information There seemed to be a need to formalise the experiences in the field, and on the level of provision of different prevention measures in EU Member to identify some key concepts and principles that remain valid irrespec- States, Croatia, Turkey and Norway. - EMCDDA, Oct. 2010 tive of country. This handbook describes in a clear way the core opera- tional processes and the key strategic factors that are common to all Guidelines for testing HIV, viral hepatitis and other infections in national drugs observatories. Available in English, Spanish and French. injecting drug users Alexis Goosdeel, et al. - EMCDDA & the Inter-American Drug Abuse Infectious diseases are among the most serious health consequences of Control Commission of the Organization of American States (CICAD- injecting drug use and can lead to significant healthcare costs. There is a OAS), 2010, 114p - ISBN: 978-9291684250 recognised need for guidance on providing IDUs with a medical examina- The European Union and the drug phenomenon: tion and testing for HIV, hepatitis and several other infections on a regular frequently asked questions basis. These guidelines are accompanied by a recommended package of prevention and primary care in relation to injecting drug users and infec- This joint publication between the EMCDDA and the European tions. Treatment and other specialist care are not discussed in detail but Commission brings together some of the key frequently asked questions are dealt with by indicating referral to appropriate services. on the EU's drugs policy and how it functions. Further details can be EMCDDA, Oct. 2010, 80p - ISBN: 978-9291684144 found via the websites and other links provided at the end of each ans- wer. In English and in French. Risk assessment report of a new psychoactive substance: EMCDDA, Oct. 2010, 16p - ISBN: 978-9291684496 4-methylmethcathinone (mephedrone) Problem amphetamine and methamphetamine use in Europe This report presents the findings of the risk assessment carried out by the EMCDDA's extended Scientific Committee of the new psychoactive subs- Focusing on European countries where amphetamine or methampheta- tance 4-methylmethcathinone (known as 'mephedrone'). mine is an important part of the drug problem, this Selected issue looks EMCDDA, Sept. 2010, 16p. at the current situation in the light of the historical development of amphetamines use since the introduction of these substances as medici- Drugnet Europe 71 nes in the 1930s. The history of amphetamines use is the result of an In this issue: injecting drug use stable or declining; early-warning system interplay of global forces, such as the spread of recreational drug use in annual meeting; EU scientific experts to assess risks of mephedrone; harm the 1960s and the arrival of heroin on the European drug scene in the reduction moves to the mainstream; EMCDDA and EMA step up coopera- 1970s, and local events such as the rise of small-scale pervitin (metham- tion; European technical conference on drug supply indicators coming up; phetamine) production in what was then Czechoslovakia. The outcome EMCDDA-CICAD cooperation; new products and services. of this is that, in the present day, problem amphetamines use across EMCDDA, July 2010, 8p - ISSN: 0873-5379 Europe is marked by strong national characteristics, possibly more so than any other of the major illicit drugs. Drugnet Europe 72 EMCDDA, Selected issue, Nov. 2010, 40p - ISBN: 978-9291684502 In this issue: EMCDDA releases Annual report 2010; Old realities, new threats and economic austerity; domestic cannabis cultivation widespread; Treatment and care for older drug users amphetamines: a major problem in parts of Europe; Heroin problems - no 'Drug problems have no age limits' - This special review published sign of decline; Older drug users: a growing issue for Europe's treatment alongside the 2010 Annual report, reveals why drug use is no longer services; EMCDDA and CICAD sign three-year work programme; new pro- simply a 'youth phenomenon'. Europe is experiencing a pronounced ducts and services. ageing of its population, around a quarter of which will be aged 65 or EMCDDA, Nov. 2010, 8p - ISSN: 0873-5379 n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 22 Other European docs

Prevention of acute drug-rela- ted mortality in prison popula- tions during the immediate post-release period The rate of acute drug-related mortality, • Editorial or overdose deaths, among prisoners in the immediate post-release period is • Utrecht conference unacceptably high : during the first • News two weeks after release from prison, • An Elisad member: the risk of dying from an accidental SIIS, Madrid drug overdose is up to 50 times higher compared to the population as a whole • A new member: and 10 times higher than that of relea- Drugtext Foundation sed prisoners one year after release. • Publications Such incidents result from many fac- tors, including decreased tolerance alcohol price, availability and marke- • OnlineDocs after a period of relative abstinence ting, which will help reduce the bur- • Agenda during imprisonment. Other important den of alcohol-related harm. factors are the lack of pre-release Lars Møller & Srdan Matic - WHO counselling, post-release follow-up Regional Office for Europe, July 2010, EMCDDA from the previous page and failure to identify those at risk. 83p - ISBN: 978-9289042086 Substance dependence is a chronic www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf Statistical bulletin 2010 disorder with high relapse rates and _file/0014/114323/E93937.pdf The bulletin is published yearly and often requires long-term treatment. provides access to the most recent There is good evidence from cohort Best practice in estimating the studies that opioid substitution treat- statistical data relating to the drugs costs of alcohol. Recommen- situation in Europe. Statistics are ment reduces the risk of overdose dations for future studies organised by category. In addition to among opioid users. This report iden- the statistical tables and graphs, an tifies the main areas that need to be This report aims to summarize best can be adapted to the needs of specific overview of the data is provided for improved in order to decrease the risk practice in estimating the attributable target audiences. The manual as well each category. Are covered : General of death. Linking prison health and and avoidable costs of alcohol, and to as PowerPoint presentations can be population surveys - Youth and the public health systems closely is essen- make recommendations for making downloaded in English language. By schools population - Problematic tial to mitigating this risk. such estimates in future studies. It dis- December 2010, translations will be drug use population - Drug users in Recommendations cover preventive cusses the conceptual basis for such available in Bulgarian, German, prison - Drug-related infectious responses across all levels of the jus- cost studies, and examines the concep- Italian, Latvian and Romanian. diseases - Drug-related deaths - tice system. The report includes a lite- tual and methodological challenges for Training Criminal Justice Professio- Treatment demand indicator - Drug rature review of studies from various each type of cost in turn. It recom- nals in harm reduction services for law offences - Health and social res- countries. mends: o changes in the terminology vulnerable groups, Nov. 2010, 261p - used; o the consistent and explicit ponses - Seizures data - Price and World Health Organization, Regional ISBN: 978-3981407914 consideration of external costs; o more purity information. Office for Europe, July 2010, 33p - http://tcjp.eu/LIVE/PAGES/manual. sophisticated modelling of the effect EMCDDA, July 2010. ISBN: 978-9289042048 html of policy on costs; o more robust www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf attempts to quantify alcohol's causal Trends in injecting drug use in _file/0020/114914/E93993.pdf Europe effect on harm and costs; o a demons- FRANCE tration project using new methodolo- European Commission's This volume brings together data gies; o the use of scenarios rather than from a wide variety of sources as it Communication on alcohol and existing sensitivity analyses; o the Politique de lutte contre les describes Europe's current drug the WHO framework for alcohol importing of data from other studies drogues et les toxicomanies. injecting problem and plots its policy. Analysis to guide deve- rather than simply omitting certain Document de politique trans- trends in recent years. Responses to lopment of national alcohol types of cost; o consideration of future versale, projet de loi de finances drug injecting and measures to action plans health and resource costs; o and not pour 2011 reduce the harm caused by this form using the human capital method for Policy against drugs and addiction. of drug use are also reviewed. The This public health analysis examines valuing the labour costs of premature Transversal policy document, draft report finds that the available data the documentation for the implemen- mortality within the main estimates. budget law for 2011 point to a stable or declining trend tation of the European Commission's Lars Møller & Srdan Matic - WHO of injecting in most European coun- 2006 Communication on a strategy to La réalisation des objectifs du plan Regional Office for Europe, July 2010, tries, with effective treatment and reduce alcohol-related harm and the gouvernemental de lutte contre les 72p - ISBN: 978-9289042079 harm-reduction measures now rea- framework for alcohol policy in the drogues implique une coordination www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf ching many users. Despite this, there WHO European Region, to provide interministérielle renforcée et une _file/0009/112896/E93197.pdf is still a large population of drug guidance for the development of meilleure articulation entre prévention, injectors in Europe, and there conti- national action plans on alcohol. It soin, et répression. Afin d'améliorer la Prison staff and harm reduction. nue to be signs of recent recruitment also examines relevant findings from cohérence de cette politique, la MILDT in some countries. projects co-financed by the A training manual s'est vu confier la mission de concevoir Commission. The analysed materials un document de politique transversale EMCDDA, Selected issues, June 2010, This document is the main output of call for strong, coordinated action CJP (DPT). Ce document retrace l'effort de 22p - ISBN: 978-9291684120 the EU-funded T project (Training across all relevant policy domains to Criminal Justice Professionals in harm l'État en faveur de cette politique reduce alcohol-related harm, suppor- reduction services for vulnerable interministérielle à travers les budgets Upcoming publications: ted by national action plans and groups). The main aim of the project de 28 programmes consacrés à la question de la drogue. Il offre un ins- • Methadone drug profile backed by the EU. The is to develop and improve training for Communication focuses on mapping professionals in the criminal justice trument de pilotage permanent du plan • Buprenorphine drug profile present action and sharing experience, system who work on the 'front line' gouvernemental favorisant la cohérence • Ketamine drug profile while the framework calls for national with problem drug users. The training d'actions relevant de plusieurs ministè- infrastructure to implement effective package aims at prison staff and res. Le DPT Drogues annexé au Plan action. National action plans should consists of a core section on harm de loi de finances 2011 permet de complement implementation of the reduction and several additional chiffrer l'effort global de l'État à près Communication and the framework by modules on subjects such as infectious de 1,5 milliard (y compris les crédits emphasizing action that regulates diseases, mental health and women. It de l'assurance maladie) soit une aug- n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 23 données de consommation en popula- Dix ans d'évolution des percep- Réduction des risques chez les tion générale et chez les jeunes et les tions et des opinions des Fran- usagers de drogues. Synthèse résultats des études menées en France çais sur les drogues (1999-2008) et recommandations ou à l'étranger, en milieu professionnel. La consommation de médicaments Ten years of evolution of French Risk reduction among drug users. psychotropes serait plus directement people's perceptions and opinions Summary and recommendations en lien avec le travail que les usages on drugs (1999-2008) Cette expertise collective, basée sur de drogues illicites, à l'exception de la Le troisième exercice (1999, 2002, l'analyse de 700 publications interna- cocaïne pour certaines professions. 2008) de l'enquête sur les représenta- tionales, a pour objectif de disposer de • Editorial Les conséquences des usages de drogue tions, opinions et perceptions sur les connaissances actualisées sur les dis- • Utrecht conference sur le travail restent difficiles à cerner psychotropes permet de faire le point positifs afin d'affiner les critères per- et nécessitent de poursuivre les recher- sur l'évolution de la connaissance et des mettant d'améliorer les pratiques de • News ches. opinions de la population française RDR. La réduction des risques chez les • An Elisad member: Bertrand Redonnet - OFDT, 2010, 13p. relatives aux drogues et aux actions usagers de drogues est un axe majeur SIIS, Madrid www.ofdt.fr/BDD/publications/docs/ publiques développées ces dernières de la politique de santé publique eisxbrq6.pdf années. Fin 2008, 2 300 personnes depuis 20 ans et a permis de réduire • A new member: âgées de 15 à 75 ans ont été interrogées considérablement le nombre de conta- Drugtext Foundation Surdoses mortelles par usage par téléphone et invitées à donner leur minations par VIH et le nombre d'over- • Publications de produits psychoactifs en point de vue en répondant à un ques- doses. Cette politique présente néan- France tionnaire pendant une vingtaine de moins certaines limites, avec notam- • OnlineDocs minutes. Les thèmes traités par cette ment une prévalence du VHC qui • Agenda Fatal overdoses by the use of psy- enquête concernent les perceptions de atteint 60% parmi les usagers de dro- choactive drugs in France la dangerosité des substances psycho- gues. Cette synthèse souligne que la Les données sur les décès par surdose actives, les craintes qu'elles suscitent politique de RDR ne doit pas se limiter mentation de l'ordre de 10% par rap- de drogues constituent un des indica- et les appréciations sur les mesures de à la seule mise à disposition d'outils, port à 2010. Il permet aussi de consta- teurs européens retenus par l'OEDT. Il politique publique actuelle ou sur celles mais qu'elle doit s'intégrer à une stra- ter une approche équilibrée de la poli- est donc primordial que la définition à mener. Ces appréciations portaient tégie plus globale de réduction des tique publique puisque 530 millions de ce qu'est une surdose et les modes sur cinq substances : alcool, tabac, inégalités de santé. Certaines popula- sont consacrés à la prévention, 619 de collecte des données soient homo- cannabis, cocaïne et héroïne. Ce tions - femmes, mineurs et détenus - millions à la lutte contre le trafic et au gènes. En France, il existe trois sources numéro de Tendances présente les doivent faire l'objet d'actions spécifiques. respect de la loi, 345 000 à la prise en principales de recensement qui ne principaux résultats concernant la per- Elle recommande aussi que la réduc- charge sanitaire. reposent pas sur des définitions identi- ception des personnes interrogées tion des risques s'inscrive en continuum MILDT, oct. 2010, 78p. ques. La base de données CépiDC de ainsi que des usagers de ces produits. avec les stratégies de prise en charge www.drogues.gouv.fr/site-profession- l'Inserm prend en compte les causes Il traite aussi de leur appréciation des de la dépendance et soit intégrée aux nel/la-mildt/document-de-politique- médicales (basées sur les certificats de politiques publiques avant, en conclu- projets thérapeutiques individuels et transversale/ décès), la base de l'OCRTIS recense les sion, de replacer les évolutions obser- aux suivis médicaux et sociaux. décès constatés par les services de vées dans un contexte plus large. Inserm (Inst. national de la santé et de Consommation de drogues police et de gendarmerie, le fichier Jean-Michel Costes, Olivier Le Nézet, la recherche médicale), juil. 2010, 62 p. DRAMES de l'AFSSAPS contient les illicites en milieu professionnel : Stanislas Spilka, Cécile Laffiteau - www.inserm.fr/thematiques/sante- décès en relation avec l'abus de subs- état des lieux des connaissances OFDT, Tendances n° 71, août 2010, 6p. publique/expertises-collectives tances et de médicaments. L'analyse et des recherches menées en www.ofdt.fr/ofdtdev/live/publi/tend/t des données de ces trois sources ne France end71.html Prise en charge des usagers de montre pas les mêmes tendances entre Illicit drug use in the work place: 2000 et 2008. Probablement surestimés cocaïne. Recommandations de Homosexualité masculine et inventory of knowledge and par CépiDC, qui inclut des décès acci- bonne pratique research in France dentels et des suicides médicamen- usages de substances psycho- Taking care of cocaine users. À l'occasion des assises Consommation teux, les chiffres sont sous estimés par actives en contextes festifs gais Recommendations for good practice l'OCRTIS. Si les surdoses liées aux stu- de drogues en milieu professionnel, Male homosexuality and use of psy- Les données épidémiologiques mon- péfiants avaient considérablement l'OFDT vient de publier une note de choactive substances in the gay scene trent que la consommation de cocaïne synthèse rassemblant les principales baissé entre 1995 et 2005, la tendance a atteint des niveaux importants en à la hausse est confirmée par les trois Cette étude ethnographique sur les France et s'étend désormais à tous les sources depuis cette date. Elle s'expli- usages de drogues en contextes festifs milieux professionnels. Or cette con- que par le manque d'expérience de gais repose sur une cinquantaine d'en- sommation expose à des risques sani- nouveaux usagers très jeunes, la dis- tretiens semi-directifs menés à Paris et taires souvent ignorés des consomma- ponibilité accrue de l'héroïne et l'usage Toulouse en 2007-2008. L'étude a teurs et méconnus des professionnels croissant de la cocaïne. concerné une frange d'individus parmi de santé. Ces recommandations visent Éric Janssen et Christophe Palle - lesquels la probabilité de rencontrer à améliorer la prise en charge sanitaire OFDT, Tendances n° 70, mai 2010, 4p. des usagers était grande sans prétendre des consommateurs de cocaïne en www.ofdt.fr/ofdtdev/live/publi/tend/t rendre compte de comportements com- facilitant leur repérage et en décrivant end70.html muns à l'ensemble des hommes homo- les stratégies de prise en charge sexuels. Après avoir montré comment médico-psycho-sociale qui permettent les psychotropes sont expérimentés de faciliter l'arrêt et le maintien de dans des contextes festifs et collectifs, l'arrêt de cette consommation. le rapport souligne que l'usage de dro- Haute autorité de santé, 2010, 35p - gues peut constituer un support décisif Argumentaire et recommandations à : dans la gestion de leur identité sexuelle. www.has-sante.fr/portail/jcms/c_ Quant à l'adoption de pratiques 951095/prise-en-charge-des-consom- sexuelles à risque, l'étude conclut que, mateurs-de-cocaine pour l'échantillon de personnes ren- contrées, il n'existe pas de lien causal Premiers résultats du baromètre direct avec l'usage de drogues, d'autres facteurs d'ordre social, psychologique santé 2010. Évolutions récentes ou liés à des choix personnels semblant du tabagisme en France bien plus déterminants. First results from the Health Baro- Sandrine Fournier, Serge Escots, Serge meter 2010. Recent developments in Hefez - OFDT, sept. 2010, (TREND : smoking in France Tendances récentes et nouvelles dro- Les premiers résultats du Baromètre gues), 172p - ISBN : 978-2110985743 santé 2010 sont consacrés à l'évolution www.ofdt.fr/ofdtdev/live/publi/rap- de la prévalence du tabagisme depuis ports/rap10/epfxsfq9.html 2005. Les chiffres révèlent la première n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 24 Jeunes… et moins jeunes face aux nouveaux médias Youth… and less young people facing the new medias Internet, réseaux sociaux, jeux en ligne, téléphonie mobile… Quelle place, quels bénéfices, quels risques, quelle prévention ? Bibliographie sélective • Editorial couvrant ces addictions. • Utrecht conference Centre d'Information Régional sur les Drogues et les Dépendances (CIRDD) • News Alsace, oct. 2010, 6p. • An Elisad member: www.cirddalsace.fr/dossiers/10-2010- SIIS, Madrid medias/JEUNES_MEDIAS_OCT_2 • A new member: 010.pdf Drugtext Foundation THE NETHERLANDS • Publications asociadas, se plantean como una nueva • OnlineDocs Feestmeter 2008-2009 realidad de intervención. Cruz Roja, en su larga trayectoria de trabajo en el • Agenda Party survey 2008-2009 ámbito de las drogodependencias, ha The survey examined substance use intentado adaptarse a las necesidades hausse véritablement significative du among attendees at 11 large scale par- emergentes apostando por la calidad tabagisme depuis la Loi Evin. Ainsi, la ties in five regions of the Netherlands. de la intervención y la formación del baisse du tabagisme observée en popu- Respondents of 15 to 35 years were personal. Esta guía es el resultado de lation masculine depuis les années 70 recruited on the spot and asked to ans- una acción formativa con los equipos semble désormais enrayée. On assiste wer a limited set of questions on their de la red territorial y está destinada a même à une reprise du tabagisme substance use in the past month. profesionales que se dedican a la pre- féminin concernant en particulier les A van der Poel, J Doekhie, J Verdurmen, vención del consumo de drogas entre femmes nées entre 1945 et 1965. M Wouters, D Korf, M van Laar - la juventud, así como a profesionales que tratan a jóvenes que mantienen François Beck, Romain Guignard, Trimbos Institute, 2010, 144p, in cualquier patrón de consumo en rela- Jean-Baptiste Richard, Jean-Louis Dutch - ISBN: 978-9052536774 ción con las mismas, haciendo espe- Wilquin, Patrick Peretti-Watel - Inpes, www.hnt-info.eu/File/item_goodtok- cial hincapié en el binomio-alcohol y oct. 2010, 13p. now.aspx?id=750 cocaína. www.inpes.sante.fr/index2.asp?page =30000/actus2010/016.asp Cruz Roja, 2010 SPAIN www.cruzroja.es/guiajuventud/index Injection de drogues : comment .html articuler prévention, éducation Evaluación Estrategia Nacional et réduction des risques ? sobre Drogas 2000-2008 Prevención efectiva del consumo Evaluation of the national drug de sustancias psicoactivas en Injecting drug use: how to articulate strategy 2000-2008 prevention, education and risk chicos y chicas adolescentes: reduction? La Evaluación se presenta no sólo como una revisión actualizada de la una aplicación sistemática de los materia Les communications du séminaire de métodos de investigación a la valora- travail organisé par l'Inpes à Paris, 15 Effective prevention of psychoactive ción de las intervenciones de las admi- mars 2010, sont disponibles en ligne substance use in adolescent boys nistraciones participantes en el Plan sur le site de l'Inpes. Cette rencontre and girls: an updated review of the Nacional sobre Drogas, sino como el avait pour objectif de rapprocher les literature elemento que el mismo Plan Nacional acteurs de prévention et d'éducation Después de una introducción sobre la considera decisivo y necesario para Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Las pour la santé de ceux qui travaillent evolución histórica de la prevención fundamentar la definición de las polí- Palmas, Junio 2010, 105p - ISBN: 978- plus spécifiquement à réduire les ris- ticas futuras. Evaluar lo que hacemos efectiva del consumo de sustancias en 8469290361 ques liés aux injections de drogues, es la única manera de aprender de los la adolescencia, sobre la implicación www2.gobiernodecanarias.org/sani- afin que les campagnes de sensibilisa- éxitos y de los fracasos para poder de los organismos internacionales e dad/dgad/documentos/20100727DR tion, les stratégies et les outils de RDR proyectar el futuro con garantías. Pero instituciones especializadas y sobre OGODEPENDENCIAS.pdf soient mieux articulés et que les expé- además, la evaluación es un acto de definiciones básicas, se presentan el riences d'autres pays continuent à responsabilidad política que, en sí qué, el cómo y el dónde que caracteri- Drogas y atención primaria: nourrir les réflexions partagées. mismo, supone el obligado rendimiento zan a las intervenciones efectivas. Las guía práctica de intervención www.inpes.sante.fr/ intervenciones que se recogen tienen de cuentas que los poderes públicos y sobre el abuso de alcohol y la administración deben a los ciudada- una amplitud que abarca desde el otras drogas L'alcool et les jeunes : nos en un Estado democrático como marco de la escuela, medios de comu- Prévention des risques et prise es el nuestro. Evaluar es, en definitiva, nicación, publicidad, leyes y regula- Drugs and primary care: a practical en charge des conséquences la mejor manera de trabajar con el rigor ciones, hasta las intervenciones inte- guide for treating alcohol and other de l'usage y la transparencia que son exigibles a grales en el ámbito de la comunidad. drugs abuse Especial énfasis reciben las estrategias Alcohol and youth: Risk prevention los servicios públicos. El papel de la Atención Primaria ante preventivas efectivas específicas de and management of the consequences Delegación del Gobierno para el Plan las drogas y el consumo de alcohol género, reconociendo la necesidad de of the use Nacional sobre Drogas, Oc. 2010, 216p está adquiriendo cada vez más rele- tener en cuenta las diferencias entre vancia por la elevada comorbilidad del Dossier bibliographique sur le thème www.pnsd.msc.es/Categoria2/public a/publicaciones/home.htm chicas y chicos, sus patrones de con- abuso de sustancias adictivas con otras de l'alcool et les jeunes. De nombreu- sumo y su vulnerabilidad diferencial a patologías. En la práctica, el abuso de ses références citées sont accessibles los efectos nocivos sobre el organismo. drogas aparece en la consulta del en ligne. Juventud, alcohol y cocaína: Guía para la intervención Para ello, se ha realizado una revisión médico y la enfermera en forma de Centre d'Information Régional sur les exhaustiva de publicaciones de orga- demandas directas de los usuarios o de Youth, alcohol and cocaine : guideli- Drogues et les Dépendances (CIRDD) nismos internacionales (OMS, EMCDDA), sus familiares, a través de la detección Alsace, nov. 2010, 11p. nes for intervention de instituciones especializadas (NIDA), de los consumos de drogas y alcohol www.cirddalsace.fr/dossiers/11-2010- El crecimiento del consumo conjunto y experiencias nacionales publicadas en los análisis clínicos, y también oculto alcool/JEUNES_et_ALCOOL_NOV de alcohol y cocaína entre la juventud en países como Reino Unido, Estados en otras patologías. No podemos olvi- _2010.pdf y las consecuencias socio-sanitarias Unidos, Canadá, Australia y España. dar tampoco el enorme impacto del n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 25 demostrar la eficacia del programa de Entrenamiento en Competencia Social en su aplicación clínica, con personas drogodependientes que iniciaban trata- miento en el citado centro. Los resul- tados apuntan a que tras el entrena- miento, se produce una mejora en el uso global de las cinco dimensiones del pensamiento por parte de aquellos • Editorial drogodependientes que participaron en • Utrecht conference el programa, así como diferencias estadísticamente significativas en las • News medidas antes-después para el propio • An Elisad member: grupo experimental en cada uno de los SIIS, Madrid ítems de cada prueba. Como conclu- siones, la autora señala que las personas • A new member: drogodependientes que fueron entre- Drugtext Foundation nados en Competencia Social resulta- ron ser más competentes; asimismo, potenciar la reinserción laboral de las • Publications participar en el programa contribuyó a mujeres ex drogodependientes, conocer • OnlineDocs su éxito en el tratamiento. la situación actual del mercado laboral • Agenda Ángela Rita Martín Caballero - en cuanto a oferta y demanda de Dirección General de Atención a las empleos, explotar la reinserción laboral Drogodependencias del Gobierno de como método apropiado para evitar la consumo de psicofármacos sin pres- Canarias, 2010, 180p. brecha de género entre hombres y cripción médica, que en muchos casos www2.gobiernodecanarias.org/sani- mujeres, promover la reinserción labo- se acaba convirtiendo en un problema dad/dgad/images/20100910Tesis.pdf ral como herramienta fundamental de dependencia. Por todo ello, hemos para la inserción social de las mujeres, elaborado esta guía práctica con el fin Guía de práctica clínica para así como el mantenimiento de ese de intervenir sobre los problemas de ayudar a las mujeres embara- empleo conseguido, conocer técnicas abuso de alcohol y otras drogas. de búsqueda y mantenimiento del Queremos hacer énfasis en el caso de zadas a dejar de fumar empleo y dar a conocer los procesos abuso del alcohol y las consecuencias Good practices guidelines to intervene exitosos de reinserción laboral de que éste tiene para la salud mental y when smoking during pregnancy mujeres ex drogodependientes, porque física, ya que los propios profesionales Fumar durante el embarazo sigue supone una herramienta de empodera- reconocen en este problema un impacto siendo un grave problema de salud miento de las propias mujeres prota- muy significativo en su tarea cotidiana pública. En España, según la Encuesta gonistas de dichos procesos… asistencial. Nacional de Salud del año 2006, fuman Fundación Atenea, junio 2010, 116p. Servicio de Drogodependencias del casi el 30% de mujeres entre 16 y 44 www.ateneagrupogid.org/archivos/i Gobierno de la Rioja, sept 2010, 140p. años. Muchas de estas mujeres necesi- nserc_mujer_exconsumi_baja.pdf http://infodrogas.org/ficheros/info- tan ayuda para dejarlo y los proveedo- drogas/drogas_at_primaria_2010.pdf res de cuidados obstétricos están en una posición única para ayudarlas. SWITZERLAND Necesidades terapéuticas de Hay estrategias disponibles con una gran evidencia científica sobre su efi- las mujeres drogodependientes Economic evaluation atendidas en los Centros de ciencia que deben integrarse en la rutina asistencial. Por todo ello, el of prevention measures: Tratamiento Ambulatorios y Return on investments Residenciales de Castilla y León Colegio Americano de Obstetricia y Ginecología recomienda a los obstetras Évaluation économique des mesures Therapeutic needs of drug addicted que pregunten a todas las embarazadas de prévention : retour sur investis- women cared in outpatient and resi- si fuman o no y les ofrezcan trata- sement de la prévention dential treatment centres in the miento para dejar de fumar si procede. Castilla y León region The main objective of this study was El programa proporciona los antece- the calculation of the economic return Estudio descriptivo de tipo cuantitativo dentes y las herramientas necesarias in the three prevention fields of y cualitativo. En el primero, se explo- para que cualquier clínico desarrolle tobacco, harmful use of alcohol, and ran las variables sociodemográficas y una intervención conductual que ayude road accidents with a common metho- psicológicas que influyen en el trata- a sus pacientes embarazadas a dejar de dology. The main questions addressed miento de la dependencia a las drogas fumar. La intervención consiste en with regard to prevention measures UNITED KINGDOM en las mujeres. En el segundo, se ana- cinco pasos, es fácilmente integrable were: Do these measures work? And, lizan los resultados aportados por 18 en la rutina diaria, requiere una inver- if so, are they worth the money they entrevistas abiertas, individuales, con sión muy razonable de tiempo y recur- Smoking, drinking and drug cost? The main result is a positive use among young people in mujeres consumidoras de drogas. sos y está respaldada por los máximos return for every franc invested in England in 2009 Comisionado Regional para la Droga, niveles de evidencia. health promotion and efforts for pre- Junta de Castilla y León, June 2010, Servicio de Drogodependencias del venting road accidents, tobacco The survey report presents informa- 306p - ISBN: 978-8497186056 Gobierno de la Rioja consumption and alcohol harmful use. tion on the percentage of pupils who www.jcyl.es/web/jcyl/Familia/es/Pla http://infodrogas.org/guia-de-inter- The estimated return on investment have ever smoked, tried alcohol or ntilla100/1193641915480/_/_/_ vencion-en-tabaquismo-durante-el- varies between 9.4 for public road taken drugs. It explores the attitudes embarazo accident prevention programmes, 23 and beliefs of school children towards Evaluación y entrenamiento en for alcohol prevention and 41 for smoking, drinking and drug use and competencia social con perso- Buenas prácticas para tobacco prevention. The research has where children obtain cigarettes, alco- nas drogodependientes, 2010 la reinserción sociolaboral demonstrated the potential benefits of hol and drugs. Relationships between de la población de mujeres ex prevention measures. smoking, drinking and drug use are Evaluation and training in social explored along with the links between Swiss Federal Office of Public Health competence for working with drug consumidoras smoking, drinking and drug use with (with the Winterthur Institute of abusers, 2010 Good practices for the social rehabi- other factors such as age, gender, eth- Health Economics WIG, and the La investigación fue llevada a cabo litation of ex-drug consuming women nicity, previous truancy or exclusion. Institute of Economic Research, con personas drogodependientes que Los objetivos de este estudio son esta- Irene), March 2010, 87p - in French, Elizabeth Fuller & Marie Sanchez - estaban recibiendo tratamiento en el blecer buenas prácticas en los proce- English, German, and Italian. NHS, July 2010, 205p. - ISBN: 978- Centro de Día Cercado del Marqués. sos de reinserción laboral de la pobla- www.bag.admin.ch/evaluation/01759 1846364310 La autora se fijó como propósito ción de mujeres ex drogodependientes, /07612/07620/index.html?lang=en www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/sdd09fullreport n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 26 A long-term study Sinning and sinned against: as well for the criminal justice system of the outcomes of drug users The stigmatisation of problem and wider drug policy makers. The leaving treatment drug users findings together with key implications for policy and practice can be found Around 200,000 people get help for This report aims to summarise what summarised in four briefing papers, as drug dependency in England every the research evidence has to tell us well as the full research findings in year. Most are addicted to heroin or about the stigmatisation of problem four background research reports. crack cocaine, or both. The medical drug users; to explore the nature of UKDCP, July 2010 consensus is that heroin and crack this stigmatisation, its impacts and www.ukdpc.org.uk/ • Editorial cocaine users take several years to why it happens. These considerations overcome addiction, and spend repea- raise some fundamental issues about Consumption controversies: • Utrecht conference ted attempts in treatment before they the nature of addiction and the extent • News do. Against this background, the to which it is seen as a moral, medical alcohol policies in the UK • An Elisad member: annual statistical reports of numbers in or social issue. They also raise impor- This briefing presents an overview of drug treatment can present a distorted tant questions about autonomy and the research on a series of 10 controversies: SIIS, Madrid picture of the treatment system. blame attached to addiction. 1. The UK has a drink problem • A new member: However the National Drug Treatment Charlie Lloyd - UKDCP, Aug. 2010, 2. The biggest bingers are in Scotland Drugtext Foundation Monitoring System (NDTMS) database 74p - ISBN: 978-1906246242 and the NE • Publications enable us to follow the treatment www.ukdpc.org.uk/ 3. Problem drinking is a new pheno- careers over successive years. menon • OnlineDocs Consequently the National Treatment Drugs and diversity: 4. Has our night-time economy been • Agenda Agency (NTA) has analysed the long- The impact of drugs on revitalised by drinking term results for those who have been different minority groups. 5. A continental drinking culture is treated in one year, and found that A review of the UK literature better Drug treatment in 2009-10 nearly half (46%) of those who leave These wide-ranging reports describe 6. It is 'safer' to drink at home This urvey records that overall drug neither need further treatment, nor were they found to be involved in what is known about treatment and 7. Children should not drink alcohol use in England has been steadily falling prevention within diverse communi- drug related offending. The NTA mat- 8. Units are not useful as a tool to in recent years, particularly among ties, including LGBT groups, disabled ched 4 years' worth of NDTMS data measure levels of drinking young people. It also shows that less people and ethnic minority groups. with Drug Test Records (DTR) and the 9. Too much focus is given to treating than 1% of the population recently The aim of the review was to encou- Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) the effects of alcohol rather than redu- used heroin and crack cocaine. In the rage greater consideration of the needs data to evaluate the long-term outco- cing consumption mid-2000s the Home Office commis- and challenges of drug problems for mes of drug treatment for 41,475 10. Saving the local British pub is sioned a detailed estimate of the num- minority groups, by bringing together clients who left drug treatment in the more important than reducing drinking bers of problematic drug users, and a variety of evidence in one place. The financial year 2005-06. It includes both the National Treatment Agency asked study suggests that mainstream services The Royal Geographic Society (RGS), those who left treatment in a planned Glasgow University to conduct a are not always meeting the needs of Sept. 2010, 28p. way, and those who dropped out. This follow-up exercise for 2008-09. The diverse communities. The reports pre- www.alcoholpolicy.net/2010/09/cons is the first time a study of this kind findings indicate the first signs of an sent challenges for commissioners of umption-controversies-alcohol-poli- has been possible. Although there is important shift among a hard-to-reach and practitioners within drug services, cies-in-the-uk.html population. They report a real decrease no international equivalent study, the in the number of opiate users: there results compare favourably with longi- are now almost 11,000 fewer heroin tudinal studies about the prospects of INTERNATIONAL addicts in England. Other changes are individuals' recovery from even the deemed to be within the usual margins most entrenched addiction. As a treat- of error. So where the previous Home ment programme usually takes longer New on the Unodc website: www.unodc.org/ Office research suggested the number than a year to complete, these findings of problem drug users was stable at provide a more meaningful assessment around 330,000, the fall to about of treatment effectiveness than an World Drug Report 2010 321,000 in the latest estimates is not annual snapshot. It enhances our In 2009, the United Nations Member significant. Nevertheless the researchers understanding of what success means: States decided to make decisive pro- explored the data in more detail and for example, it was found that many gress, within a decade, in controlling found significant decreases in the of those who “drop out” do not seem illicit drug supply and demand. Many numbers in younger age groups, parti- to need further treatment. Most impor- illicit drug markets have reached glo- cularly the 15-24s but also the 25-34s. tantly, it shows to users and all the bal dimensions and require control The data therefore suggests that an people who work with them that reco- strategies on a comparable scale. In existing population of problem drug very from addiction is possible. that context, there is a need to better users is getting older. National Treatment Agency for Subs- understand these transnational markets National Treatment Agency for Subs- tance Misuse / NHS, Sept. 2010, 11p. and the manner in which they operate. tance Misuse / NHS, Oct. 2010, 12p. www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/outco- This year's report is a contribution www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/nta_annual mes_of_drug_users_leaving_treat- towards that objective. It shows shift report_0910.pdf ment2010.pdf towards new drugs and new markets : it opens with an analytical discussion of three key transnational drug mar- kets: the markets for heroin, cocaine and amphetamine-type stimulants. The market discussion is followed by a Commission on Narcotic Drugs presentation of statistical trends for all report on the fifty-third session major drug categories. The latest This report covers matters calling for information on drug production, seizu- action by the Economic and Social res and consumption is presented. Council or brought to its attention, Finally, there is a discussion on the such as the realignment of the func- relationship between drug trafficking tions of the United Nations Office on and instability. Drugs and Crime and changes to the UNODC - June 2010, 313p - ISBN: 978- strategic framework, and includes 9211482560 draft decision, and a lot of resolutions and deliberations. Economic & Social Council, Official Records, 2010, Supplement No 8, 118p. - ISSN: 0251-9941 n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 27 in 9 provinces in the Southern and Western regions, including the most insecure provinces. This substantiates the link between insecurity and opium cultivation observed since 2007. Total opium production in 2010 was estima- ted at 3,600 metric tons, a 48% decrease from 2009. The sharp decline was due to the spread of a disease that • Editorial affected opium fields in the major gro- • Utrecht conference wing areas. The effect of the disease was visible in the yield which dropped • News to 29.2 kg/ha, a 48% reduction from • An Elisad member: 2009. All opium production (96%) SIIS, Madrid took place in the same southern and western provinces. The other provinces • A new member: produced only 4% of the total opium Drugtext Foundation in 2010. All 20 provinces which were • Publications poppy free in 2009, remained poppy free in 2010. The total estimated farm- • OnlineDocs gate income of opium growing farmers dren, and the increase in trafficking • Agenda amounted to US$ 604 million: a signi- may also have a health dimension. ficant increase from 2009, when the This issue also includes information income was estimated at US$ 438 mil- on the use of synthetic drugs among Colombia coca cultivation sur- lion. university students in Brazil, signifi- vey 2009 cant seizures as well as the emergence UNODC - September 2010, Summary & of a new, uncontrolled chemical that In Colombia, coca cultivation was cut findings, 32p. could be used in the illicit manufac- by 16% to 68,000 ha, which is a ture of ecstasy. decline of almost 60% since the peak International Collaborative UNODC, Oct. 2010, 20p. of a decade ago. Cocaine production Exercise. Drug analysis fell to 410 metric tons, a 9% year-on- Under the UNODC International year reduction. Cultivating coca in Guide for the development of Quality Assurance Programme labora- Colombia has clearly become riskier forensic document examination tories continuously monitor their per- and less profitable for organized capacity formance in drug testing on a global crime. Coca farmers barely earn over scale. A summary report provides The guide aims to provide practical one US dollar a day. The total farm- information on the performance of all assistance for the establishment or gate value of coca production has laboratories. Analytical results are upgrading of forensic document exa- dropped by 21%, to below half a bil- reviewed by the UNODC Standing mination capacities in two categories lion dollars. Coca plots are becoming Panel of Forensic Experts which over- of service providers: (a) immigration smaller, more dispersed and less pro- and border control agencies and (b) ductive, thus increasing the demand of sees the implementation of these exer- cises, and offers guidance in addres- forensic science laboratories. Several local communities for legal sustaina- levels of infrastructure development ble livelihood initiatives. Colombia's sing relevant quality issues. The ICE web-based portal was developed in ranging from basic to advanced capa- frontal action against coca cultivation city are covered. The focus is on the and cocaine production is matched by 2009 to facilitate return of results and rapid release of their evaluation. The staff skill and educational require- effective anti-trafficking policies. ments needed to perform forensic Cocaine seizures within Colombia rea- testing has shown the following emer- ging trends: Piperazine derivatives document examinations and to provide ched 200 metric tons in 2009 which court testimony, intelligence alerts and represents a significant percentage of including metachlorophenylpipera- zine, often seized as ecstasy tablets, training. Recommendations on foren- the cocaine produced (between a quar- sic equipment, reference collections ter and a half depending on purity). benzylpiperazine, 3-trifluoromethyl- phenylpiperazine, paraflurophenylpi- and databases as well as general gui- UNODC - June 2010, 112p - ISSN: perazine and 1,4-dibenzylpiperazine dance for designing, establishing and 20110596 continue to be reported by a number maintaining a forensic document exa- of countries. The European laborato- mination facility are included. Drug use in Afghanistan: 2009 ries reported a significant number of Laboratory and scientific section of Survey new drugs such as mephedrone, the UNODC, Oct. 2010, 52p. - ISBN This survey shows that around one methylenedioxypyrovalerone, and the 978-9211302998 million Afghans (age 15-64) suffer naphthoylindoles, including JWH-018 from drug addiction. At 8% of the and JWH-013, and CP 47,497, which Handbook on the United Nations population, this rate is twice the global are cannabinoid receptor agonists. Crime Prevention Guidelines. average. One of the most shocking Opium and heroin hydrochloride, with Making them work statistics in this report is the number high percentages of caffeine and other This handbook offers a concise over- of parents who give opium to their adulterants such as phenobarbital, and view of the main considerations to be children; as high as 50% of drug users diazepam, were reported by laborato- taken into account in planning and in the north and south of the country. ries in Asia. implementing crime prevention strate- The report also reveals a major shor- UNODC Laboratory and Scientific gies and interventions. It also recogni- tage of drug treatment. Only 10% of Section (LSS), July 2010, 6p. zes that there are some major differen- drug users surveyed had received any ces between regions and countries in form of drug treatment, although 90% Global SMART Update 2010 - terms of the challenges posed by of them felt that they were in need of it. Vol. 4 crime and victimization and the UNODC - June 2010, Executive sum- Published twice a year to provide brief importance of adapting programmes to mary 19p. reporting on emerging trends in the local contexts. The main emphasis is fast-changing global synthetic drugs on how crime prevention strategies Afghanistan Opium Survey situation. This issue mainly covers the based on the guidelines developed by 2010 latest developments in methampheta- the United Nations can be entrenched The total opium poppy cultivation mine use and trafficking in Africa. and sustained over time. estimated in 2010 did not change from The use of amphetamines has been UNODC Criminal Justice Handbook 2009 and remained at 123,000 hecta- reported in several West African coun- Series, Oct. 2010, 124p - ISBN: 978- res. 98% of the cultivation took place tries, even among school-aged chil- 9211303001 n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 28 of the importance of treatment for this population in recent decades, with opiate substitution therapy prominent amongst the range of treatment moda- lities. While methadone remains the most widely used substitute, clinicians recognise that there is a significant number of users for whom methadone has proved ineffective. This recogni- • Editorial tion has driven an expansion in the • Utrecht conference range of substitution modalities, and, in some parts of the world, clinicians • News have employed heroin (or, more preci- • An Elisad member: sely, diacetylmorphine or diamorphine, SIIS, Madrid its licit, unadulterated pharmaceutical infections among young people, in the form) in the treatment of opiate addic- 15 countries most affected by HIV, are • A new member: tion. This briefing paper explores the dropping significantly as young peo- Drugtext Foundation question of Heroin Assisted Treatment ple embrace safer sexual behaviours. • Publications (HAT), examines the growing body of Also in the report, a sweeping new evidence emerging from its clinical UNAIDS and Zogby International • OnlineDocs use in addiction therapies, and makes public opinion poll shows that nearly • Agenda recommendations for policy makers. 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, Christopher Hallam - International region by region, countries continue to Drug Policy Consortium, Briefing rank AIDS high on the list of the most Other international docs Paper, July 2010, 15p. important issues facing the world. An www.idpc.net/ economic analysis makes the case for making health a necessity, not a The 2010 World Drug Report: a Report of the Special Rapporteur luxury, outlining the critical need for response from the International on the right of everyone to donor countries to sustain AIDS invest- Drug Policy Consortium ments and calling on richer develo- the enjoyment of the highest ping countries to invest more in HIV into five sessions: 1- Developments in The aim of this report is to provide an attainable standard of physical overview and analysis of the contents and health. the region: Rethinking aims and tar- and mental health of the 2010 UNODC World Drug Report. UNAIDS, Outlook issue No 2, July gets of ACCORD; 2- A sustainable This report sets out the range of opium decline? Challenges for a post- International Drug Policy Consortium, 2010, 152p, in English (ISBN: 978- human rights abuses that have resulted opium period; 3- Crop substitution Sept. 2010, 22p. 9291738595), and in French, Spanish from international drug control efforts, policies and the impact of Chinese www.idpc.net/ and Russian. and calls on governments to: http://data.unaids.org/pub/Outlook/ agricultural investment; 4- Legal The need for increased trans- • Ensure that all harm-reduction mea- 2010/20100713_outlook_report_web reform: Legislative challenges for Southeast Asia and experiences from parency: The country corres- sures and drug-dependence treatment _en.pdf other regions; and 5- Challenges for services, particularly opioid substitu- Also available in French, Spanish and pondence of the INCB harm reduction & treatment. tion therapy, are available to people Russian. Downloadable supplements: Comments on how The International who use drugs, in particular those Transnational Institute, Aug. 2010, • Treatment 2.0 - Is this the future of Narcotics Control Board undertakes among incarcerated populations. 18p. its work. treatment? • Decriminalise or de-penalise posses- www.tni.org/report/report-gtz-tni- Dave Bewley-Taylor - International sion and use of drugs. • Young people are leading the HIV southeast-asia-informal-drug-policy- Drug Policy Consortium, Briefing prevention revolution • Repeal or substantially reform laws dialogue-bangkok Paper, Oct. 2010, 8p. inhibiting the delivery of essential • Making sense of the money + Where www.idpc.net/ IDS health services to drug users, and does the money for A go? mhGAP Intervention Guide for review law enforcement initiatives • The Benchmark - What the world mental, neurological and subs- Drug policy and development: around drug control to ensure com- thinks about the AIDS response tance use disorders in non-spe- How action against illicit drugs pliance with human rights obligations. www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCent cialized health settings impacts on the Millennium re/Resources/FeatureStories/archive • Amend laws, regulations and poli- This mhGAP Intervention Guide is a Development Goals /2010/20100713_Outlook_launch.asp cies to increase access to controlled technical tool developed by WHO to This briefing paper highlights similar essential medicines. A Matter of substance. Fighting assist in implementation of mhGAP. tensions between the objectives of the This guide has been developed To the UN drug control agencies, the drug trafficking with a subs- development community, and the report recommends the creation of an through a systematic review of evi- objectives and strategies implemented alternative drug regulatory framework tance-oriented approach dence followed by an international in the name of drug control. UN agen- based on a model such as the Framework This paper discusses the “substance- consultative and participatory process. cies and member states have made Convention on Tobacco Control. This oriented approach” Dutch authorities It presents integrated management of some progress in recent years in is the clearest statement to date from implemented to to scare off potential priority conditions using protocols for addressing these tensions, but there is within the UN system about the harms small-scale cocaine smugglers. The clinical decision-making. The priority a long way to go to find an integrated that drug policies have caused and the focus was on the drugs, rather than the conditions included are: depression, approach to drug control that maximi- need for a fundamental shift in drug couriers, and on incapacitating the psychosis, bipolar disorders, epilepsy, ses the protection of health and human policy. smuggling route, rather than deter- behavioural disorders in children and rights. rence by incarceration. Anand Grover - UN Human Right adolescents, dementia, alcohol use Martina Melis & Marie Nougier - Council, Aug. 2010, 25p. Ernestien Jensema - Transnational disorders, drug use disorders, self- International Drug Policy Consortium, http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/ Institute, Series on Legislative Reform harm/suicide and other significant Briefing Paper, Oct. 2010, 13p. UNDOC/GEN/N10/477/91/PDF/N10 of Drug Policies Nr. 7, July 2010, 12p. emotional or medically unexplained www.idpc.net/ 47791.pdf?OpenElemen www.tni.org/briefing/matter-substance complaints. It has been developed for use by health-care providers working Heroin assisted treatment. Outlook 2010 GTZ-TNI Southeast Asia infor- in non-specialized health-care settings after adaptation for national and local The state of play This new UNAIDS Outlook report outli- mal drug policy dialogue needs. The United Nations Office on Drugs nes a radically simplified HIV treat- This report provides an overview of and Crime (UNODC) estimates that ment platform called Treatment 2.0 the views expressed during the mee- WHO, Oct. 2010, 107p - ISBN: 978- there are presently between 15.5 and that could decrease the number of ting of the GTZ/TNi Southeast Asia 9241548069 21.1 million opiate users in the world, AIDS-related deaths drastically and informal drug policy dialogue, which www.who.int/mental_health/evi- the majority of whom are heroin users. reduce the number of new HIV infec- took place in Bangkok, in April 2010. dence/mhGAP_intervention_guide/e There has been a growing awareness tions. Evidence shows that new HIV The two-day dialogue was divided n/index.html n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 29 National Southwest border UNITED STATES counternarcotics strategy Implementation Update National drug control strategy This report highlights counterdrug 2010 progress made along the Southwest Key strategy objectives: border and emphasizes the critical role reducing drug consumption in the • Strengthen efforts to prevent drug United States plays in reducing drug use in our communities • Editorial violence in both the United States and • Seek early intervention opportunities Mexico.Specifically, the report cites • Utrecht conference in health care significant progress made in key areas, • News • Integrate treatment for substance use such as stemming the outbound flow • An Elisad member: disorders into health care of illegal bulk cash and weapons, Support for recovery: interdiction at and between ports of SIIS, Madrid entry, countering smuggling in the air • A new member: • Break the cycle of drug use, crime, and maritime domains, investigations delinquency, and incarceration and prosecutions, border security and Drugtext Foundation • Disrupt domestic drug trafficking law enforcement technology, intelli- • Publications and production gence collection and information sha- • OnlineDocs • Strengthen international partnerships ring, and enhancing cooperation with • Agenda • Improve information systems for Mexico on counterdrug efforts. analysis, assessment, and local mana- Office of National Drug Control gement Policy, Nov. 2010, 64p. AUSTRALIA Goals to be attained by 2015 www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/ • Curtail illicit drug consumption: DEA Position on Marijuana Australian drug trends 2010. Decrease the 30-day prevalence of drug use among 12-17 year olds by This resource provides information on Findings from the Illicit Drug 15%.- Decrease the lifetime preva- a number of topics related to marijuana: Reporting System (IDRS) lence of 8th graders who have used marijuana legalization, the harms asso- This handout presents key findings for drugs, alcohol, or tobacco by 15%.- ciated with marijuana use, and espe- the 2010 IDRS (injecting drug users Decrease the 30-day prevalence of cially "medical" marijuana. The cam- survey component). National data are drug use among young adults aged 18- paign to legitimize what is called available from 2000, however where 25 by 10%.- Reduce the number of "medical"¨ marijuana is based on two trends over time are presented; only chronic drug users by 15%. propositions: first, that science views marijuana as medicine; and second, results from the most recent five years • Improve the public health and public that the DEA targets sick and dying are presented. Final figures will appear safety by reducing the consequences in the 2010 national and jurisdictional people using the drug. Neither propo- of drug abuse: Reduce drug-induced sition is true. Specifically, smoked reports, to be released in April 2011. deaths by 15%.- Reduce drug-related http://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/NDA marijuana has not withstood the rigors morbidity by 15%.- Reduce the pre- of science–it is not medicine, and it is RCWeb.nsf/resources/Conference1/$ valence of drugged driving by 10%. file/IDRS+&+EDRS+2010.pdf not safe. Moreover, the DEA targets White House, Office of National Drug criminals engaged in the cultivation Control Policy, 2010 - Full document and trafficking of marijuana, not the 127p, complemented with other docu- sick and dying. This is true even in the CANADA ments (summary, data supplements, 14 states that have approved the use of press relesases, resources for parents, "medical"¨ marijuana. Tools for debate: US federal for youth…) government data on cannabis Drug Enforcement Administration, www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/stra July 2010, 54p. prohibition tegy/ www.justice.gov/dea/marijuana_posi To date, an impact assessment of can- tion_july10.pdf nabis prohibition based on data from Results from the 2009 National US federal government surveillance Survey on drug use and health Altered state? systems has been largely absent from This report presents the first informa- Assessing how marijuana international debates regarding the tion from the 2009 National Survey on legalization in California could impacts of cannabis prohibition and Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an influence marijuana consump- California range from around $200 the potential impacts of a regulated annual survey sponsored by the tion and public budgets million to nearly $1.9 billion; our esti- market. This report summarizes infor- Substance Abuse and Mental Health mates show that the costs are probably mation about the impacts of US can- Services Administration (SAMHSA). To learn more about the possible out- less than $300 million. nabis prohibition on cannabis seizures comes of marijuana legalization in This survey is the primary source of 5. There is considerable uncertainty and arrests. In addition to describing California, researchers constructed a information on the use of illicit drugs, about the impact of legalizing mari- the failure of cannabis prohibition, it model based on a series of estimates. alcohol, and tobacco in the civilian, juana on public budgets and consump- notes that legalization combined with Key findings: non institutionalized population of the tion, with even minor changes in the implementation of strict regulatory United States aged 12 years old or 1. The pretax retail price will substan- assumptions leading to major differen- tools could be more effective at con- older. It interviews approximately tially decline, likely by more than ces in outcomes. trolling cannabis use and its related 67,500 persons each year. Correlates 80%. The price will depend heavily on Beau Kilmer, Jonathan Caulkins, harms. Research demonstrates that include the following: age, gender, taxes, the structure of the regulatory Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Robert J similar regulatory tools have been suc- pregnancy status, race/ethnicity, edu- regime, and how taxes are enforced. cessful in controlling the harms of MacCoun, Peter H Reuter - RAND cation, employment, geographic area, 2. Consumption will increase, but it is tobacco and alcohol when strictly Drug Policy Research Center, July frequency of use, and association unclear how much, because we know enforced. The report also discusses the 2010, 82p - ISBN: 978-0833050342 with alcohol, tobacco, & illegal drug neither the shape of the demand curve regulatory tools available, including www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_pape use. nor the level of tax evasion. licensing systems; age restrictions; rs/OP315/ SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies product taxation; retailer operating 3. Tax revenues could be dramatically (OAS), Vol. 1, Summary of national A fact sheet of 3 pages on the same and location limitations; marketing lower or higher than the $1.4 billion findings, Sept. 2010, 104 p. subject, titled: “How might marijuana prohibitions; and packaging guidelines. estimate: uncertainty about the federal legalization in California affect public http://oas.samhsa.gov/NSDUHlatest. response to California legalization can International Centre for Science in budgets and marijuana consumption?” htm swing estimates in either direction. Drug Policy (ICSDP), Vancouver, CA, is available at: Oct. 2010, 25p. 4. Previous studies find that the annual www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/ www.icsdp.org/docs/ICSDP-2.pdf costs of enforcing marijuana laws in RB9543/ n° 31 - Nov. 2010 - 30 23rd Elisad Annual Conference Agenda Oct. 6-8, 2011, at the OFDT • Editorial French Monitoring Centre • Utrecht conference for Drugs and Drug Addiction • News La Plaine Saint-Denis (near Paris) • An Elisad member: SIIS, Madrid • A new member: Drugtext Foundation • Publications • OnlineDocs • Agenda Innovation on the ATOD Frontier: • 2 Dec., Glasgow, UK Centre for Welfare and Social Issues Now's the time Impact of parental substance misuse www.nordisktvalfardscenter.org/?id Elisad is the European rd on children's educational attainment =86058 33 SALIS Conference association of libraries Organised by STRADA (Scottish & information services Training on Drugs and Alcohol) • 17-18 mars 2011, Paris, France 3-6 May 2011, Kansas City, USA on alcohol www.gla.ac.uk/departments/deve- Alcool et psychothérapies. Org. by www.salis.org/ lopmental/cpd/newcourses/ SFA, Société Française d'Alcoologie and other drugs www.sfalcoologie.asso.fr/ • 3-4 déc., Reims, France For more information: Justice et toxicomanie. Qui fait quoi ? • 21-22 March, London, UK • 13-14 June, London, UK 27es Journées de Reims organisé par le Child and adolescent addictions: UK National Smoking Cessation www.elisad.eu Conference CAST risks, consequences, treatment and www.addictionsinfo.eu www.cast.asso.fr/ management. Org. by MA Healthcare www.uknscc.org/index.html www.mahealthcareevents.co.uk/ • 24 juin, Paris, France • 5-7 Dec., Washington, DC, USA Journal chief editor Corps et âme. Colloque pour le 40e Policies for reducing problems asso- • 3-7 April 2011, Beirut, Lebanon Annie Singer nd anniversaire de Marmottan ciated with alcohol availability. IHRA's 22 International Conference [email protected] Organised by the Silver Gate Group www.ihra.net/conference/ Contributors: www.silvergategroup.com/ap15/ • 5-8 April 2011, Ottawa, Canada • 4-11 Sept. 2011, Barcelona, Spain Christine Goodair Discovery 2011 Conference. Org. by Primary care: Mental health issues • 9-10 déc., Lille, France with a focus on drugs and behavior. Addictions, responsabilité indivi- the Responsible Gambling Council ICDP, Uk www.responsiblegambling.org/ Mediterranean Cruise Conference duelle et collective. PIRDAd, Pôle organised by Continuing Education interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les Mario Lap • 7-9 abril 2011, Madrid, Spain www.continuingeducation.net/cour- conduites addictives Drugtext, Netherlands XXXVIII Jornadas Nacionales sedetails.php?program_number=878 http://addictologie.chru-lille.fr Socidrogalcohol Arantxa Mendieta www.socidrogalcohol2011.org/ • 4-11 Sept. 2011, Vienna, Austria • 15-17 Feb., Vancouver, Canada th Jenny Delitsch 13 Congress of ESBRA (European Lost in translation: Seeking answers • 11-15 April 2011, Melbourne, AU Society for Biomedical Research on SIIS, Spain in addiction & concurrent disorders. 37th Annual alcohol epidemiology Alcoholism) Org. by Centre for Health Evaluation symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society www.medacad.org/esbra2011/ Isabelle Michot and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS) www.kbs2011.theconferencemana- OFDT, France www.cheos.ubc.ca ger.com.au/ • 5-8 oct. 2011, Barcelona, Spain II International congress on dual Claes Olsson • 16-19 Feb., Toronto, Canada • 14-17 April 2011, Washington, USA disorders: Addictive behaviors and th 17 annual meeting of the Society nd other mentals disorders. Org. by the CAN, Sweden 42 annual medical-scientific confe- for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco rence of the American Society of Spanish Society of Dual Disorders www.srnt.org/conferences/index.cfm Addiction Medicine (ASAM) (SEPD) with the World Psychiatric www.asam.org/annualmeeting.html Association • 23-25 Feb., Vienna, Austria Thanks to Daniela Zardo www.patologiadual.es/cipd2011/en/i New challenges, new solutions. Org. • 2-4 May 2011, Melbourne, AU ndex.htm (Gruppo Abele, Italy) by Democracy, Cities & Drugs (DC&D) 6th International drugs and young and to Angita Peterse www.democitydrug.org/ people conference. Org. by the • 3-6 Nov. 2011, Vanouver, Canada CSAM 2011 Annual Meeting & (Trimbos Institute, NL) Australian Drug Foudation • 2-5 March, Vancouver, Canada www.adf.org.au/6dyp Scientific Conference. Organised by for providing The power of knowledge: Integrating the Canadian Society of Addiction some pictures research, policy, and promising • 12-13 May, Harrogate, UK Medicine practice around the world. 16th national conference working with www.csam.org 4th International Conference on Fetal drug and alcohol users in primary Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: care. Organised by MA Healthcare • 17-18 nov. 2011, Nancy, France Material published in www.interprofessional.ubc.ca/FASD. www.mahealthcareevents.co.uk/ Tabacologie sans frontières, Congrès the Elisad journal htm national de la Société française de tabacologie (SFT) does not necessarily reflect • 23-24 May, Utrecht, NL • 16-17 March, Copenhagen, DK 5th Annual conference of the http://societe-francaise-de-tabacolo- the views or policies Policies favouring lower alcohol International Society for the Study gie.com/ of Elisad content beverages: motives and of Drug Policy consequences. Org. by the Nordic www.issdp.org/conferences.htm