|
Commission for Social Care Inspection
The CSCI inspect and report on care services and councils. They are independent but set up by Government to improve social care and stamp out bad practice.
|
|
|
Drug film archive
An archive of film and television depictions of drug use. |
|
|
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
The EMCDDA is a European Community agency and aims to provide reliable information on drugs and drug addiction in the EU. The website includes online reports databases about drug usage and anti-drug programs. |
|
|
General Medical Council
The General Medical Council (GMC) licenses doctors to practise medicine in the UK. Its purpose is to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public by ensuring proper standards in the practice of medicine. |
|
|
Gledwood
Gledwood is a user living in London who blogs his daily life. |
|
|
Hotties of Harm Reduction
This calendar project is an effort to raise funds for three syringe exchange programs. |
|
|
Network of Sex Projects
The UK Network of Sex Work Projects (UKNSWP) is a non-profit, voluntary association of agencies and individuals working with sex workers. |
|
|
Skills for Health: DANOS
Skills for Health works with employers and other stakeholders to ensure that those working in the sector are equipped with the right skills to support the development and delivery of healthcare services. DANOS - the Drugs and Alcohol National Occupational Standards - specify the standards of performance that people in the drugs and alcohol field should be working to. They also describe the knowledge and skills workers need in order to perform to the required standard. This website provides an in depth guide to DANOS. |
|
|
Substance Misuse Management in General Practice
Substance Misuse Management in General Practice (SMMGP) is a developing network to support GPs and other members of the primary health care team who work with substance misuse in the UK. |
|
|
Tackling Drugs, Changing Lives
The official Home Office drugs site. Along with information on the drugs strategy, Drug Intervention Programmes (DIPs) and laws and licensing, the site hosts the official directory of contact details for Drug Action Teams. |
|
|
The Central Committee on the Treatment of Heroin Addicts
The Central Committee on the Treatment of Heroin Addicts (CCBH) was installed by the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports of the Netherlands in 1996. The task of the CCBH is to report to the Minister about the intended and unintended effects of medical prescription of heroin to heroin addicts who have benefited insufficiently from the currently available treatments. Between 1998 and 2001, the CCBH investigated a total of 549 patients in two clinical studies: a study into the effects of medically prescribed injectable heroin on the patients’ health condition and social functioning, and a similar study into the effects of inhalable heroin. The results of these studies, and of various supplementary studies, are presented on this website. |
|
|
The Health Protection Agency
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is an independent body that protects the health and well-being of the population. The Agency plays a critical role in protecting people from infectious diseases and in preventing harm when hazards involving chemicals, poisons or radiation occur. |
|
|
The Home Office
This is the website for the UK government department dealing with law, public order, public safety, immigration, fire, passports, prisons and the police among others. |
|
|
The International Narcotics Control Board
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is the independent and quasi-judicial control organ monitoring the implementation of the United Nations drug control conventions. |
|
|
The National Treatment Agency
The National Treatment Agency (NTA) is a special health authority, created by the Government in 2001 to improve the availability, capacity and effectiveness of treatment for drug misuse in England. In other words, to ensure that there is more treatment, better treatment and fairer treatment available to all those who need it. |
|
|
The Royal College of General Practitioners
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is a network of doctors working in general practice who have the common aim of promoting excellence in family medicine. It is also the only academic organisation in the UK for GPs. Since its birth in 1952 the College has worked vigorously to establish general practice as a discipline in its own right and promote the importance of family medicine. |
|
|
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNODC is mandated to assist United Nations Member States in their struggle against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism. In the Millenium Declaration, Member States also resolved to intensify efforts to fight transnational crime in all its dimensions, to redouble the efforts to implement the commitment to counter the world drug problem and to take concerted action against international terrorism. |
|
|
Vancouver Coastal Health: Safe Injecting Site
This is the website of North America’s first legal supervised injection site. |
