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By Bill White: The purpose of this document is twofold. First, it provides an overview of key findings drawn from historical and scientific research on social/professional stigma related to addiction to illicit drugs, with a particular focus on the stigma experienced by people in medication-assisted treatment and long-term medication-assisted recovery [Faces and Voices of Recovery, USA]
Remember George W Bush? For him it was simple. If a scientist told him an inconvenient truth, the messenger was fired, and someone more compliant got the job [British Medical Journal, UK]
The report on the state of the drugs problem in Europe presents the EMCDDA’s yearly overview of the drug phenomenon [European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction]
“…even when it is rejected. The Nutt row must not be allowed to fester”, Lord Rees, President of Royal Society [Times, UK]
After showing that the safer injecting facility in Vancouver benefited the community by reducing public injecting and injection-related litter, researchers have now shown that it also safeguarded its users by cutting the number who shared syringes. Print publication 2005 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Be happy so we can enhance the likelihood of others in our community being happy. And convey positive feelings and messages of hope. There is every reason to believe that … positive feelings and messages about recovery can be transmitted through our social network to impact in a positive way on many people [David Clark, WIred In]
But the notion of a purely scientific system of drug classification is itself something of an illusion, built on the reductive model of drug-effects as matters of chemistry and biology. Of course, they are matters of chemistry and biology, but they are also much, much more [Release, UK]
An alcohol price survey has shown that minimum pricing will target cheap, high-strength products, the Scottish government has claimed [BBC, UK]
David Nutt’s dismissal looks set to destroy the council he chaired. Mature drugs debate will have to find another home [Guardian, UK]
The man at the heart of the row over the relationship between politics and science appeared relaxed and unrepentant [BBC, UK]
Potent synthetic drugs proving hard to control as chemists produce alternatives quicker than authorities can ban them [Guardian, UK]
Change in attitudes among 15- to 16-year-olds behind decline, though UK tops Europe’s cocaine league, says drug agency [Guardian, UK]
The government has made concessions over plans to force welfare claimants who misuse drugs and alcohol to undertake drug tests and treatment as a condition of their benefits [Community Care, UK]
Smokable herbal mixtures under the brand name ‘Spice’ are known to have been sold on the Internet and in various specialised shops since at least 2006 and anecdotal reports suggest that those products may have been available as early as 2004 [EMCDDA]
The sentences that offenders receive for drug law violations across the European Union are examined for the first time in this ‘Selected issue’ [EMCDDA]
Changes in consumption associated with onset and offset of alcohol-use disorder are substantial enough to have important implications for the risk of associated physical and psychological harm [Journal of Studies of Alcohol & Drugs, USA]
Jim Webb Says America’s Justice System Is Broken and Drug Policy Is Largely to Blame; Is Portugal’s Liberal Approach a Model? [CBS News, USA]
Drugnet Europe, the EMCDDA’s quarterly newsletter, provides regular information on the Agency’s activities to a broad readership [EMCDDA]
Comments, views and news about hepatitis C and harm reduction. Recorded public meeting for Overdose Day of 31st of August, 2nd part [Hepatitis C Victoria, Australia]
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will spearhead a fresh battle against binge drinking amid a growing outbreak of alcohol-fuelled violence [Courier Mail, Australia]
