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Wired
In volunteers kick ass! |
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We got on so well [with film company researcher
Rachel] that three hours later we were still chatting! ... Everyone
of the guys there was an ex-heroin user. It just shows that addiction
can be overcome and it is possible to have a fulfilling, active
life after drug addiction [I did it my way, UK] |
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The
Road to Recovery: A New Approach to Tackling Scotland's Drug
Problem |
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The Scottish Government's new national drugs
strategy that focuses on recovery but also looks at prevention,
treatment and rehabilitation, education, enforcement and protection
of children [Scottish Government, UK] |
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New
approach to tackling drugs |
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Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing hailed
it as "a new era" in Scotland's approach to tackling
drugs [Scottish Government, UK] |
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Scottish
Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse: Integrated Care for Substance
Misusers Project Group - Final Report |
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This final report draws together all the strands
of work sponsored by the group, including the Essential Care
rreport and an update of Integrated Care for Drug Users and makes
several recommendations for implementing improvvements in service
integration [Scottish Government, UK] |
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Integrated
Care for Drug or Alcohol Users: Principles and Practice Update
2008 |
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Brings up to date 'Integrated care for Drug
Users' first published in 2002 [Scottish Government, UK] |
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Scottish
Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse: Psychostimulant Project
Group Report |
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Scottish Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse
report identifying the extent and impact of psychostimulant use
in Scotland; making recommendations on how to improve access,
range and quality of services available to psychostimulant users
[Scottish Government, UK] |
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Scottish
Advisory Committee on Drug Misuse - Essential Care Working
Group Report |
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The Essential Care report concluded that recovery
should be the main focus of treatment and care for people with
problem substance us. The Government accepts all the recommendations
in Essential Care and the response outlines how this will be
implemented through the new drugs strategy and elsewhere [Scottish
Government, UK] |
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The
National Forum on Drug-related Deaths: Annual Report 2007 -
The Scottish Government's Response |
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The Government's response to the first Annual
Report from the National Forum on Drug-related Deaths outlines
activity already being carried out or planned in the Scottish
drugs strategy and elsewhere [Scottish Government, UK] |
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Young
People’s Specialist Substance Misuse Treatment: Exploring
the Evidence: Consultation |
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Invitation to comment on NTA guidance [NTA,
UK] |
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We
must kick our methadone habit |
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Perhaps in 100 years historians will wonder
why so many of the governing elite, from senior doctors to Cabinet
ministers, persisted for so long in the belief that doling out
methadone was the answer. The explanation, I think, will be that
they wilfully misunderstood the nature of the problem [Times,
UK] |
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Call
for drugs 'injecting rooms' |
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Experts are to call for injecting rooms to
be introduced across Wales in a bid to tackle the nation's drug
problems [BBC, UK] |
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Heroin
video to be shown to schoolchildren |
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A graphic video diary of a middle-class heroin
addict’s failed attempts to give up will be shown to millions
of schoolchildren as a warning of the dangers of drugs [Telegraph,
UK] |
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Does
judgment clear way for safe-injection sites? |
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Legal experts were divided yesterday on whether
a B.C. Supreme Court ruling ensuring that Vancouver's injection
facility for heroin addicts remains open clears the way for supervised
injection sites across the country [Globe and Mail, Canada] |
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Clement
disagrees with Insite decision |
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Federal Health Minister Tony Clement yesterday
said his government disagrees with a B. C. Supreme Court decision
that rules that it would be unconstitutional for Ottawa to shut
down North America's only supervised safe-injection facility
[National Post, Canada] |
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Insite
debate a slippery slope |
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B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ian Pitfield has
certainly set the cat among the pigeons with his ruling that
Vancouver's safe-injection site, Insite, should be allowed to
remain open for at least a year [The Province, Canada] |
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Nurses
implore Camadian PM to keep supervised injecting facility open |
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To those nimbys, soap box moralisers and shameless
political game players (yes, I mean you Brown, Smith and Coaker)
who have systematically stymied attempts to set up supervised
drug consumption facilities in the UK - I challenge you to watch
this video [TDPF, UK] |
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Methadone
substitution therapy starts in Ukraine |
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Following the success of Alliance Ukraine’s
campaigning to introduce methadone substitution maintenance therapy
for injecting drug users, the rollout of methadone to patients
in Kyiv, Odesa and Zaporizhzhya started this month [The Alliance,
UK] |
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FIFA
adopts new WADA doping code |
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At its annual Congress, FIFA members voted 175 to 1 to adopt
the code [International Herald Tribune] |
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