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Archived Daily News - 29th June 2008
   
 
Treatment reform in the U.K.
A direct challenge to the U.K. reliance on methadone ... Another article deconstructs the U.K.'s definition of recovery and offers some context [Addiction and Recovery News, USA]
 
Drug addicts and alcoholics behind £3bn increase in disability benefit
Disability benefits are costing taxpayers an extra £3.1billion a year under Labour - and a major factor is a massive rise in the number of claimants who are drug addicts and alcoholics, according to newly released documents [Daily Mail, UK]
 
Scientists in illegal drugs discovery
Experts at Strathclyde University have found they can identify which drugs come from the same suppliers and manufacturers by analysing chemical traces in tiny samples of contraband [Scotsman, UK]
 
Record numbers of smokers kick habit
Health bonus claimed from a year of restrictions [Observer, UK]
 
New Irish drink law is a recipe for mayhem
Whoever thought that ending staggered closing times would solve our problems must have been binge drinking [Times, UK]
 
Decline in Teen Smoking Hits a Wall
Public Health Officials Worry as a Promising Years-Long Trend Goes Flat [Washington Post, USA]
 
Drug, alcohol abuse study measures the high cost of under-treated addiction
Ensuing diseases and hospitalization can be been avoided with more preventive treatment, researchers find [La Times, USA]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

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