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New
member of Wired In Advisory Board: William L White |
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One of the leaders of the Recovery Movement
in America - he has written the two best books I have read in
this field [the prof speaks out] |
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Warning
cocaine will be bigger problem than heroin |
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Cocaine will soon become a bigger problem than
heroin in Edinburgh, according to Edinburgh's outgoing drugs
and alcohol tsar [Edinburgh Evening News, UK] |
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Coroner
warns after drink deaths |
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North West Wales coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones
said the UK Government and assembly government were tackling
drug problems when alcohol abuse was worse [BBC, UK] |
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Tesco
ban on alcohol sales to parents |
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Tesco is refusing to sell alcohol to parents
shopping with their children under rules designed to tackle underage
drinking [Telegraph, UK] |
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Government
postpones youth alcohol strategy at short notice |
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The government has delayed a second major initiative
from The Children's Plan, just weeks after MPs criticised the
strategy's lack of clear timescales [Children & Young People,
UK] |
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Alcohol
duty tax rises to go ahead |
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An attempt to derail the government's inflation-busting
alcohol duty escalator has failed in the House of Commons [The
Publican, UK] |
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Welsh
Assembly Government’s Substance Misuse Strategy for Wales
2008-2018 consultation |
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A 5-page PDF response from [UKDPC] |
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School
students demand better drugs education |
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Young beneficiaries of Drugsline’s education
programme addressed politicians in the House of Commons at an
event entitled, ‘We are all vulnerable: Young People’s
views on drugs’ [Drugsline, UK] |
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Moving
People interim website |
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Mental Health Media, Mind, Rethink and the
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London have been awarded £18
million from the Big Lottery Fund and Comic Relief to run a programme
to allow us to publicly challenge attitudes towards mental illness
in England and counter discrimination against people who experience
mental ill health [Moving People, UK] |
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The
influence of neighbourhood deprivation on people's attachment
to places |
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This study considers the factors that cause
people to become attached to deprived neighbourhoods in England,
and the things that prevent attachment from developing. In particular,
it examines how social mix and high population turnover affect
attachment. Full
report PDF [JRF, UK] |
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Prince
Charles pleads for more Trust funds |
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The Trust's scheme targets young people who
have had to overcome obstacles such as long-term unemployment,
drug dependency or a prison record [Telegraph, UK] |
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DANOS
questionnaire |
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Skills for Health - the organisation responsible
for maintaining the Drug and Alcohol National Occupational Standards
(DANOS) - has launched a questionnaire inviting people to give
feedback on their experience of DANOS and the kind of support
they would like in the future [BeaBetterManager, UK] |
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National
Occupational Standards for Social Marketing |
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These standards will enable marketers to work
with social problems (such as drink driving, obesity, destructive
behaviour) and help make healthier changes in society - Consultation
questionnaire [MSSSB, UK] |
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'Cuddle
hormone' oxytocin to be turned into pill to combat shyness,
depression and autism |
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Researchers believe it could also be turned
into a "wonder drug" to treat a range of personality
disorders [Daily Mail, UK] |
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HRB
reports latest trends in treated drug use across Ireland |
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A total of 68,754 cases aged between 15 and
64 years were treated for problem drug use in Ireland between
2001 and 2006. 40-page
PDF full report [National Documentation Centre, Ireland] |
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Colombian
Warlord Pleads Not Guilty to Drug Charges |
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A right-wing Colombian paramilitary leader
who has been accused of ordering hundreds of political assassinations
and smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States — including
drugs that were sold from a busy Brooklyn crack house — pleaded
not guilty to drug charges Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan
[New York Times, USA] |
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Coalition
may block alcopop tax |
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The federal opposition has hinted it will use
its Senate majority to block a tax hike on so-called alcopop
drinks [The Age, Australia] |
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Few
docs ask about alcohol in pregnancy |
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Professor Elizabeth Elliott said a four-year
national investigation of foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) by the
Australian Pediatric Surveillance Unit found reporting rates
for FAS were low even though children could suffer multiple disabilities
[The Age, Australia] |
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Preventing
drug abuse in the Middle East |
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UNODC's Regional Office for the Middle East
and North Africa has just concluded a regional awareness campaign
on drug abuse, with a particular focus on youth [UNODC] |
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