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HRB publish evidence review on drug-related intimidation
by Laura Murphy
Drug-related intimidation (DRI) negatively impacts the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, communities and the functioning of local agencies who serve them. Intimidation can be explicit or implicit, involving actual, threatened or perceived threats of violence or property damage. It can leave targeted individuals feeling helpless, isolated, demoralised and fearful. The Health Research Board (HRB) recently published an evidence review, conducted on behalf of the Department of Health’s Drugs Policy Unit, to identify international best practice, community-based responses to DRI1. The review focused on intimidation carried out by those involved in the distribution of drugs, including disciplinary intimidation, used to enforce social norms within the drug distribution hierarchy, to discourage or punish informants, or as a means to reclaim drug debt, and successional intimidation, used to recruit new members or gain control over networks or territory.
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AskAboutAlcohol.ie
by Deirdre Mongan
On 7 March 2017, Minister of State for Health Promotion Marcella Corcoran Kennedy TD launched the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) new website on alcohol – AskAboutAlcohol.ie.
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Communities That Care: a review
by Lucy Dillon
The National Substance Misuse Strategy1 found that community mobilisation can be successful in bringing stakeholders together to develop alcohol and drug policies. Communities That Care (CTC): a comprehensive prevention approach for communities is a review of one such approach and was published as part of the EMCDDA Papers series.2
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New clinical guidelines for opioid substitution treatment
by Suzi Lyons
New clinical guidelines for opioid substitution treatment (OST) in Ireland have been published.1 They were developed by a working group comprising the Health Service Executive (HSE), the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, the Irish College of General Practitioners, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland and HSE addiction services. The group reviewed all relevant national and international guidelines and consulted stakeholders in the addiction services. Professor Michael Farrell, director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales provided expert opinion throughout the process.
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