|
|
Tackling
Drugs – Reducing Crime' |
|
|
Speech by Drugs Minister Vernon Coaker on tackling
drugs, at the 'Tackling Drugs – Reducing Crime' European
conference organised by the Nottinghamshire Police Authority
[Home Office, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Outrage
at £8.5m a week for jobless junkies and wino's |
|
|
Tory MP David Davies said: “Taxpayers
will be outraged that so much of their money is going to junkies
and winos who will use the money simply to feed their disgusting
habits. “Nobody forced them to get hooked on drink or drugs.
It’s their responsibility to get cleaned up and off benefits.” [Daily
Express, UK] Friday April 4,2008 |
|
|
|
|
|
The
training officer |
|
|
I work with many vulnerable people: ex-offenders,
asylum seekers and recovering addicts. Because of my experiences,
I can see where they are coming from [Guardian, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
£22million
bill for heroin substitute prescribed to addicts on the NHS |
|
|
Drug addicts are being given 1.8million methadone
prescriptions each year instead of being made to go "cold
turkey" [Daily Mail, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
It's
easy to buy drugs say inmates |
|
|
More than half the prisoners in a jail claim
it is easy to get hold of drugs inside, a watchdog has revealed
[Daily Express, UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
Rich
and poor gulf in Edinburgh 'smoking map' |
|
|
Almost half of residents in some of Edinburgh's
most deprived areas are addicted to cigarettes, compared to fewer
than one-in-ten elsewhere in the city [Edinburgh Evening News,
UK] |
|
|
|
|
|
NACD
Travellers Story |
|
|
A National Advisory Committee on Drugs video
documentary, focusing on patterns of problematic drug use in
the traveller community [Drugs.ie, Ireland] |
|
|
|
|
|
Jail
needle sharing accelerates spread of AIDS |
|
|
Two studies documenting used syringe-HIV connection
spur calls for needle exchange programs for prisoners [Vancouver
Sun, Canada] |
|
|
|
|
|
Pediatricians
alerted to the developmental nature of underage drinking |
|
|
In a special supplement to Pediatrics, edited
and sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism , physicians will have access in one place to the
reviews and analyses of current research on biological, behavioral,
and environmental changes during childhood and adolescence that
foster the initiation, maintenance, and acceleration of illegal
use of alcohol by underage youth [EurekAlert, USA] |
|
|
|
|
|
New
Beer's Eve: Happy days were here again |
|
|
Breweries and beer lovers around the country
are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the return of beer on
April 7, 1933, as the Prohibition era was drawing to a close
[CNN, USA] |
|
|
|
|
|
Online
Video Program Trains Clinicians to Help Patients Who Drink
Too Much |
|
|
A new, interactive video
training program demonstrates quick and effective strategies
for screening patients for heavy drinking and helping them
to cut down or quit [NIAAA, USA] |
|
|
|
|
|
Helping
Patients Who Drink Too Much |
|
|
A Clinicians Guide. 40-page PDF [NIAAA, USA] |
|
|
|
|
|
President
Bush Signs Letter to Send the United States-Colombia Free Trade
Agreement Implementing Legislation to Congress |
|
|
Under the leadership of President Uribe, Colombia
has been a strong and capable partner in fighting drugs ... The
Colombian government is continuing to battle narcotics trafficking,
which provides the funding base for illegal armed groups [White
House, USA] |
|
|
|
|
|
Statement
from Director Walters on a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia |
|
|
If we seriously want Colombian workers to stop
producing cocaine and opium poppy we need to give them a sustainable
alternative, which as President Uribe has said, is trade and
economic expansion [Pushing Back, ONDCP, USA] |
|
|
|
|
|
36,000
kids on the streets national inquiry shows |
|
|
Despite living in one of the wealthiest countries
in the world, more than 36,000 young Australians will be sleeping
on the streets tonight [Herald Sun, Australia] |
|
|
|
