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Government
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I’m sitting here on the other side of
the world (on holiday) looking through articles in Drink and
Drugs News. I have read the excellent article by David Gilliver,
entitled “Family Matters’, with mixed feelings [the
prof speaks out, UK] |
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Board
meeting and papers - 2 July 2008 |
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Papers for information [NTA, UK] |
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Tackling
Drugs Changing Lives awards launched in Brighton |
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Those who go that extra mile to tackle drug
use to change lives and transform communities should be nominated
for an award, Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker urged today
[Home Office, UK] |
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More
staff are needed to cope with drug mums |
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New social work staff are to be recruited at
Aberdeen Maternity Hospital as services struggle to cope with
significant rises in drug-using pregnant women [Press and Journal,
UK] |
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Preston
Nightsafe Conditional Caution Alcohol Awareness Pilot Project |
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Process Evaluation Final Report 54-page PDF
[Centre for Public Health, UK] |
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24-hour
drink law has not cut violence, say frontline workers |
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Seven out of ten police authorities, primary
care trusts and councils believe that the number of alcohol-related
incidents has risen or stayed the same, a report from the Local
Government Association shows [Times, UK] |
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Population
in custody: monthly tables |
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Population in custody monthly tables May 2008
England and Wales [Ministry of Justice, UK] |
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Making
the case for regulated drug markets |
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Today the blog returns to the serialisation
of Transform's Autumn 2007 publication 'After the War on Drugs,
Tools for the Debate' [TDPF, UK] |
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Dutch
smoking ban goes into force |
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A tobacco smoking ban has come into effect
in cafes, bars and restaurants in the Netherlands [BBC, UK] |
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Dutch
smoking ban: No tobacco in your joints, cafes ordered |
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Dutch coffee shops, long considered as synonymous
with the Netherlands as tulips or attacking football, face a
new challenge from today when a ban on smoking tobacco in restaurants
and cafes comes into effect [Guardian, UK] |
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Focus
on Gender |
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A National Survey of Canadians' Use of Alcohol
and Other Drugs [Health Canada] |
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Drug,
alcohol abuse study measures the high cost of under-treated
addiction |
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Ensuing diseases and hospitalization can be
been avoided with more preventive treatment, researchers find.
[LA Times, USA] |
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DEA
Issues Proposed Online Prescription Reg |
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The DEA has now issued the proposed regulation
on online prescription of pharmaceutical meds [Drug Law Blog,
USA] |
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How
Long Does Drug Prohibition Need to Continue Before It's Declared
a Failure? |
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The day we legalize drugs is the day we can
begin to clean up the mess that the drug prohibition experiment
has created [AlterNet, USA] |
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President
Bush Signs the Merida Initiative Into Law |
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The Mérida Initiative is a remarkable
opportunity for the United States and Mexico to work cooperatively
against a deadly threat that menaces both our nations [Pushing
back, ONDCP, USA] |
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Prohibition
(Against Rational Thought) |
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We are spending 400 million of our tax dollars
in Mexico alone for ineffective policy [D'Alliance, USA] |
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Study
finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug |
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The study involved 36 men and women during
an eight-hour lab visit. It's one of the few such studies of
a hallucinogen in the past 40 years, since research was largely
shut down after widespread recreational abuse of such drugs in
the 1960s [Washington Post, USA] |
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Comorbidity
Professional Development Scholarships |
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Scholarships are available for existing, not-for-profit,
incorporated, non-government owned organisations and/or their
staff whose role substantially involves providing services to
clients with AOD, MH and/or AOD/MH comorbidity related issues
[NCETA, Australia] |
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Broader
drug testing regime for police |
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New drug testing laws for police could put
force command on a collision course with the union [The Age,
Australia] |
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“ Drug
traffickers must be executed immediately” – Indonesia
plans to speed up executions for drug offences |
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The UNODC has this year repeatedly stated that
the death penalty for drugs is an inappropriate sentence, a position
repeated in the 2008 World Drug Report, launched last Thursday
[HR2 - IHRA] |
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Ten
million Asians could be infected with HIV by 2020 |
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Policies must prioritise on focused and scaled-up
interventions towards unprotected commercial sex, unprotected
sex between men and the sharing of contaminated needles and syringes
[newKerala] |
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