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Archived Daily News - 25th May 2008
   
 
Focus on recovery for Scottish drug addicts
Scotland's new drug strategy will focus on helping addicts into recovery rather than treatment programmes [Scotland on Sunday, UK]
 
New strategy on drug abuse for Scotland
The first new strategy in a decade for tackling Scotland's drugs problem is set to be unveiled this week [Observer, UK]
 
Cocaine-Induced Emergencies Quadruple
New data show that the number of users of the drug admitted to hospital has more than quadrupled in eight years [Sky News, UK]
 
Drug intervention centre proposed above town-centre McDonalds
A drug intervention centre has been proposed for above McDonald’s in Peckham, south London. The council says the area is a 'drug dealing hot spot' so it's an ideal location [CRP News, UK]
 
A desperate new generation driven to drink
Our boozing culture is largely an underclass one and it's time we both acknowledged the problem and stepped in to help [Times, UK]
 
Revealed: the true scale of Scotland's alcohol problem
Surveys wildly underestimate our drinking. We're downing double 2003 figures. Bigger measures, stronger booze blamed [Sunday Herald, UK]
 
Patients face quiz over drink habits
Doctors, nurses and dentists across Scotland will be trained to quiz thousands of patients about their drinking habits and offer counselling to those breaching safe levels [Scotland on Sunday, UK]
 
Polak's question: Round 3
It seems HCLU’s Silenced NGO Partner video (with more than 35.000 views on YouTube up to now) on the duel between Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the Dutch psychiatrist Mr. Frederick Polak caused some disturbances in the still water [Drug Reporter]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

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