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Personal
Stories - Kerry Manley |
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Kerry Manley has been through so much with
Kevin's addiction and her resulting problems. It has been so
good to see the impact of Kevin's recovery on his mother [Personal
Stories] |
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Brown
plans tougher line on cannabis against advice of own drug experts |
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Downing Street made it clear last night that
the prime minister will press ahead with the reclassification
of cannabis to a class B drug, with a maximum five-year prison
sentence for possession, whatever the scientific advice from
the experts when they deliver their report on April 28 [Guardian,
UK] |
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The
uncomfortable truth |
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The unfortunate truth for Mr Brown is that
reclassification has worked. The police caution more users -
as the new rules make the process less cumbersome - and use is
tailing off [Leader - Guardian, UK] |
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Brown
should heed his experts on cannabis |
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Gordon Brown shouldn't be afraid of a U-turn;
for once, it is what's needed [Telegraph, UK] |
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Police
want cannabis reclassified |
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Senior police are calling for cannabis to become
a class B drug again after it was reported that a government
advisory body will say it should remain class C [BBC, UK] |
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Cannabis:
why classification decision comes down to judgment |
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The evidence of the case-control studies and
the incidence of psychosis contradict each other, which is why
judgments have to be made [Times, UK] |
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Exaggerated
claims are no basis for policy |
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Ministers have made clear that they are not
bound by recommendations from the council and that in the end
any decision on classification is a matter of political judgment
[Independent, UK] |
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Cannabis:
A deadly habit as easy for children to pick up as a bag of
crisps |
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Nearly all of the young people questioned said
cannabis was easy to obtain, with eight out of ten claiming they
could get hold of some in less than an hour ... wherever I went,
one common factor ran through these tragic cases like a golden
thread: Drugs and drug dealing [Daily Mail, UK] |
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Drug
Strategy debate |
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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
for the Home Department (Mr. Vernon Coaker): I beg to move, That
this House has considered the matter of the Drug Strategy [Hansard,
UK] |
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Number
of people on incapacity benefit for drug or alcohol addiction
doubles under Labour to 100,000 |
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Official figures out today showed that the
101,300 recorded in 2007 was more than double the 48,700 when
Labour came to power in 1997 [Daily Mail, UK] |
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Prejudice
towards heroin users and ex-users |
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Considerable prejudice exists in society towards
heroin and other drug users, which often leaves them feeling
stigmatised, isolated and unwilling to access treatment [the
prof speaks out, UK] |
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Mentor
International Prevention Awards 2008 |
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The 2008 winners in each category will each
receive £10,000 cash and a further £10,000 worth
of consultancy support to help them improve, expand and share
their activities. Closing date to e-mail or
post your entry is 20th April, 2008 [Mentor,
UK] |
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Binge
drinking 'damages memory' |
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A team from Northumbria and Keele universities
compared 26 binge drinkers with 34 non-bingers in memory tests,
and found the drinkers fared worse [BBC, UK] |
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The
Other Side Gallery |
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A group exhibition by artists working at St
Mungo's - "We collaborate with North London organisations
that provide arts activities for adults who cope with mental
health problems, physical or sensory disabilities, learning difficulties
and others who are disadvantaged or excluded from society such
as homeless people, refugees, substance misusers, offenders and
ex-offender" [St Mungo's, UK] |
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'Substance
use among older adults: a neglected problem' |
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'Substance use is generally associated with
young people, but such problems have no age limits'. PDF [EMCDDA] |
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Correlation
(European Network Social Inclusion & Health) Report - Marginalisation,
Social Inclusion and Health |
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This article describes approaches to improve
the situation regarding particular target groups, such as drug
users, sex workers, (undocumented) migrants and youth at risk.
30-page PDF [IDPC] |
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Beckley
report 14 Understanding drug markets and how to influence them |
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This latest report in the Beckley series looks
at the operation of middle-level drug dealers, and how their
behaviour is influenced by the activities of the law enforcement
agencies. 13-page PDF [IDPC] |
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IDPC
advocacy guide version three |
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The latest version of the IDPC Advocacy Guide
provides an update on the emerging process for the review of
global policies on controlled drugs being conducted under the
auspices of the United Nations. 12-page PDF [IDPC] |
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Locking
up Florida's addicts too expensive, ineffective |
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There are now almost 7-million adults in our
country's criminal justice system, including more than 2-million
persons incarcerated in jails and prisons. Well over half of
these individuals have significant substance abuse problems.
Yet the vast majority of persons who need drug treatment in our
criminal justice system never receive these services [St Petersburgh
Times, USA] |
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Alcohol
across the lifespan |
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5-year strategic plan [NIAAA] |
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Alcohol
and Other Drug Abuse Among First-year College Students |
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This guide addresses three questions: 1. How
serious is the problem of alcohol and other drug use among fi
rst-year students? 2. What developmental and environmental factors
make the fi rst year of college a time of greater vulnerability?
3. How can prevention professionals help students successfully
negotiate the sometimes perilous transition from high school
to college life? 8-page PDF [The Higher Education Center for
Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention, USA] |
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Mobiles
can help improve teens' health: study |
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But "more exciting" than that, she
told Reuters Health, is the possibility of using teenagers' GPS-enabled
mobile phones to intervene right at the time when they are most
likely to take a health risk, like drinking or smoking [The Age,
Australia] |
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Rudd
fails in NATO Afghan drug mission |
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has failed in his
bid to get NATO allies to take immediate action to destroy Afghanistan's
drug crops, and the funds they provide for the Taliban [The Age,
Australia] |
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Thai
Government Launches New Anti-Drug Campaign |
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Transcript from a 'Dateline' Special Issue,
broadcast last night on Australian TV [IHRA] |
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Anti-drugs
agencies get more power |
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Agencies in charge of overseeing the fight
against drugs are to be given more power, the National Assembly
Standing Committee decided on Wednesday [Vietnam News] |
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