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Wired
In Aims |
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I continue my description of our organisation
Wired In by showing you our aims [the prof speaks out] |
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Health
Behaviour in School-Aged Children |
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This report presents data on adolescent health
from the World Health Organization (WHO) collaborative cross-national
Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study in Scotland.
90-page PDF [CAHRU, UK] |
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Outcome
Commissioning - Digest of Key Documents and Tools |
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This digest has been prepared to showcase sample
documents and tools that West Lothian Drug Action Team have developed
and found useful in implementing outcome commissioning locally.
32-page PDF [DMIS, UK] |
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Inmates
win ‘cold turkey’ payout |
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Taxpayers have footed a £1 million compensation
bill after almost 200 drug-addicted prisoners sued the Government,
claiming that denying them a heroin substitute breached their
human rights [Times, UK] |
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Campaigners
call on MSPs to license tobacco sales |
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Anti-smoking campaign group ASH Scotland has
urged MSPs to license all businesses selling cigarettes [The
Scotsman, UK] |
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Johnson
attacked in smoke ban row |
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Mr Johnson, who was paid between £5,001
and £10,000 for a speech to the Tobacco Association in
June last year, according to the register of members' interests,
said he had been expressing a personal view on how laws like
the smoking ban should be decided [BBC, UK] |
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Cannabinoid
combination affects cannabis-linked psychological symptoms |
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People who smoke different strains of cannabis
appear to have different psychological symptoms, depending on
the cannabinoid combination contained within a particular strain
[Psychiatry Source, USA] |
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Safer
Injecting Guide |
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This guide is aimed at people who inject drugs
to help reduce some of the problems caused by injecting [Merchants
Quay, Ireland] |
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Using
Information to Promote Healthy Behaviours |
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This is the third paper in a series, Kicking
Bad Habits, on how people can be encouraged to adopt healthier
behaviour [King's Fund, UK] |
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Overdoses,
disease cause of half the deaths of B.C. homeless people |
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According to figures released by the B.C. coroner's
office, 27 of the 56 people who had been living on the street
or in shelters died of either "natural disease processes" or
poisoning from alcohol or drugs [Vancouver Sun, Canada] |
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Sustained-Release
Naltrexone For Opioid Dependence |
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For a harm-benefit evaluation of naltrexone
implants, more data on side effects and adverse events are needed
[Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews] |
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New
liquor reforms won't work: McArdle |
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New liquor reforms to tackle binge-drinking
and related violence in Queensland will be ineffective, the state
opposition says [The Age, Australia] |
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