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Is
this the answer? |
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Perhaps this is the greatest failing of the
current system: that in all the ideological to-ing and fro-ing,
we run the risk of ignoring the needs of the very people who
most need treatment. Because, in the end, recovery can only truly
be defined by the person who underwent the journey [Observer,
UK] |
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Special
report - Drugs uncovered |
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A collection of 19 articles [Observer, UK] |
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Drug-Related
Deaths in the UK-Annual Report 2008 |
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Increase in the number of Drug-Related Deaths.
3-page PDF [International Centre for Drug Policy, St George’s,
University of London, UK] |
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Advisory
Council on the Misuse of Drugs - open meeting |
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The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
(ACMD) invites members of the public to its third open meeting
on 25 November 2008 [Home Office, UK] |
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Who
is driving Tory drug policy? |
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There are both punitive and progressive strands
within Conservative Party drug policy, to some extent embodied,
respectively, by successive Conservative shadow home secretaries
on the one hand, and the party leader, David Cameron, on the
other ... It will be interesting to see how this contradiction
plays out over the coming months. Martin Barnes, chief executive
of DrugScope [Druglink, UK] |
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Turf
Wars |
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Anyone studying the recent debate on drugs
and drug treatment in the media could be forgiven for thinking
we've all gone mad [Sara McGrail, UK] |
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ACMD:
Acronym or anachronism? |
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After the debacle and harm stemming from its
recommendation to downgrade the classification of cannabis, the
ACMD now wants to downgrade a drug which can be 10 times more
powerful than cocaine [Addiction Today] |
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Professor
Andrew Parrott of Swansea University writes Open Letter to
the ACMD |
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After conveying my concerns to the ACMD, its
response leaves me with very serious concerns. Indeed, it leaves
me even more concerned than I was before [Addiction Today] |
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Helping
people achieve their full potential |
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Improving Specialist Disability Employment
Services consultation – Summary of Responses [DWP, UK] |
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Valuable
Lives: Capabilities and Resilience Amongst Single Homeless
People |
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This study examines the relationship between
homeless people's capability and resilience and their capacity
to overcome their difficulties. 25-page PDF (Crisis, UK) |
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New
charity partnership looks to support service users with complex
needs |
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Improving outcomes for service users with complex
needs is top of the agenda for a new partnership of charities
working around social exclusion [DrugScope, UK] |
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Cannabis
psychosis scare Vs tobacco policy |
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News this week about the rates of use of cannabis
and its relationship to the development of mental illness - almost
a case of chickens coming home to roost for just about everyone
involved in the whole debate [UKCIA] |
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Policing
in the 21st Century |
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Seventh Report of Session 2007–08. 117-page
PDF [Home Affairs Committee, House of Commons, UK] |
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Prevention,
Treatment, and Harm Reduction Services in Prison |
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Final Report on Prevention, Treatment, and
Harm Reduction Services in Prison, on Reintegration Services
on Release from Prison and Methods to Monitor/Analyse Drug use
among Prisoners. 104 MB PDFD [Europa] |
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Report
on tobacco smoking in prison |
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A 36-page PDF report [Europa] |
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Binge
drinkers to confront their alcohol-related criminal behaviour |
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Binge drinkers arrested for alcohol related
offences in nine police force areas across the country will be
compelled to face up to the consequences of their drinking, Home
Office Minister Alan Campbell announced today [Home Office, UK] |
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Reducing
alcohol harm |
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International benchmark. 94-page
PDF [RAND, USA] |
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The
Liverpool Longitudinal Study on Smoking |
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Experiences, beliefs and behaviour of adolescents
in Secondary School 2002-2006. 9-page PDF [Liverpool John Moores
University, UK] |
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ALDP
Operational Policies available to download |
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In an attempt to capitalise on one of the strengths
of the web, i.e. innovation through collaboration, and in the
interest of promoting good practise; the ALDP have taken the
step of making their Operational Policies available to download
[Ana Liffey Drug Project, Ireland] |
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NDIC
Accomplishments |
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NDIC has been a major contributor to our nation's
counternarcotics effort and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
Strategic Plan. The following report is a summary of NDIC mission
accomplishments during fiscal year (FY) 2008 [NDIC, USA] |
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ONDCP
launches redesigned National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
Web site |
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Congress created the National Youth Anti-Drug
Media Campaign in 1998 to prevent and reduce youth drug use [ONDCP,
USA] |
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Ketamine
sweeps the rave scene |
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A drug used to tranquillize horses has taken
the world's dance scene by storm [UNODC] |
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