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Archived Daily News - 11th May 2008
   
 
Brown's fuzzy logic on cannabis
Letters [Guardian, UK]
 
Binge drink scare tactics 'do not work'
Drinkers ignore government health campaigns because limits are seen as 'unrealistically' low [Observer, UK]
 
Age limit 'encourages children to smoke'
An Edinburgh study suggests abolishing the legal age at which children can buy cigarettes would mean fewer take up the habit [Times, UK]
 
Return to Galileo? The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control Board
Nearly 400 years after Galileo Galilei of Florence was arraigned and convicted of suspected heresy by the Inquisition, the International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) is similarly inserting itself into matters pertaining to innovations in healthcare and the public health response to addiction throughout the world [Harm Reduction Journal]
 
Video: Drug Czar, Dr. Drew Pinsky and Other Experts Discuss Pot Use and Depression
[Pushing Back, ONDCP, USA]
 
The American treatment system
A presentation from the Recovery Symposium I linked to the other day included this nugget [Addiction and Recovery News, USA]
 
Coffee Addiction
The pharmacology of caffeine [Addiction Inbox, USA]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

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