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Contents: 1 Drugs policy in the new programme for government 3 Where do drugs fi t in? 4 Retirement of Ms Mary Fanning 4 From research to policy: the Sax Institute seminar 5 Involving service users: the Irish experience 6 Organising drug users: insights from Britain 7 'Building a service-user voice'- an interactive workshop 7 Drugnet digest 8 Twelfth annual Service of Commemoration and Hope 8 Correction to article in Drugnet Ireland 36 9 Health and homelessness: the Simon snapshot study 10 Housing people who misuse substances 12 HSE plan for drug-related services in 2011 13 Working together for better quality in drugs services 14 Finding our way: working together in the mental health services 15 Update on drug-related deaths and deaths among drug users in Ireland 16 Trends in alcohol and drug admissions to psychiatric facilities 18 Problematic alcohol use among methadone users: update on a HRB-funded study 18 Report highlights the benefits of community-based drug projects 19 Update on blood-borne viral infections in injecting drug users 22 Barriers to and facilitators of hepatitis C testing 22 External review of methadone treatment protocol makes wide-ranging recommendations 24 Treated opiate users: alcohol use and treatment outcomes 25 Legal update 27 Council of Europe highlights drug-related violence in Irish prisons 28 From Drugnet Europe 29 In brief 30 Recent publications 31 Upcoming event