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What
can we do, to reduce the incidence of drug overdose? |
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I emphasised that we need an understanding
and responsible society, and this can only be achieved by increasing
awareness about drug overdose [the prof speaks out, UK] |
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NTA
Annual Report 2006/07 |
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Better treatment - Better outcomes. 16-page
PDF [NTA, UK] |
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Why
should we care about cannabis? |
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Even when used only once, cannabis may lead
to panic attacks, paranoia, psychotic symptoms and other negative
acute effects. The drug may also precipitate psychosis in vulnerable
individuals and intensify symptoms in diagnosed schizophrenics
[UNODC] |
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Gordon
Brown to make cannabis class B drug |
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Gordon Brown is to defy his own high-powered
group of experts and plough ahead with plans to reclassify cannabis
as a class B drug [Telegraph, UK] |
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Prime
ditherer: Gordon Brown criticised for delay over cannabis law |
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A Home Office spokesman said: "We will
receive the full advice next Monday and will consider it carefully
before making a decision on the appropriate classification for
cannabis." [Daily Mail, UK] |
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Early
exit: estimating and explaining early exit from drug treatment |
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This paper identifies characteristics of people
most likely to drop out of treatment prematurely in English drug
treatment services and highlights a range of possibilities for
improving services [Harm Reduction Journal] |
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Ken
Livingstone on drugs |
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The media circus that is the London mayoral
election becomes more and more like a Punch and Judy show than
a meaningful policy debate each day [TDPF, UK] |
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Excessive
Drinking in Young Women |
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Not just a "lifestyle disease" [BMJ,
UK] |
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Excessive
Drinking in Young Women |
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Reducing harm through quality improvement [BMJ,
UK] |
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Nine-year-olds
caught up in booze culture |
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Children as young as nine are regularly drinking,
according to a drink and drugs charity [Kent Online, UK] |
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Department
of Health consultation on new framework |
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Have your say on the implications for residential
services of changes outlined by the Department of Health on the
future regulation of health and social care [EATA] |
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Tobacco
and health: The smoking gun |
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A machine that puffs away and a Swedish smokeless
'tea bag' are weapons in BAT's quest to create safer products.
But can cigarette makers ever succeed? [Telegraph, UK] |
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Hidden
epidemic of 33,000 ADHD children |
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Tens of thousands of children in Scotland are
suffering from hyperactivity and behavioural problems but have
not been diagnosed, experts have warned [The Scotsman, UK] |
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Minister
Gallagher announces strengthened measures to control alcohol
advertising |
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The Government has agreed to accept the strengthened
Codes on Advertising and Sponsorship negotiated between the Department
of Health and Children, representatives from the Irish Alcohol
Industry and representatives from the Irish Advertising Industry
[Department of Health and Children, Ireland] |
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Needle-Exchange
Programs in Washington, D.C., To Expand by Summer |
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Needle-exchange programs in Washington, D.C,
likely will expand by the summer, when $494,000 in city funding
will begin "flowing to four organizations on the front line
of the fight against HIV/AIDS [Washington Post, USA] |
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America's
Gulag Just Keeps Growing |
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Despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent
and millions of Americans incarcerated, illegal drugs remain
cheap, potent and widely available in every community; and the
harms associated with them - addiction, overdose, and the spread
of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis - continue to mount [AlterNet, USA] |
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3,000
Crack Offenders Have Sentences Reduced |
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A new policy aimed at equalizing crack and
powdered cocaine sentencing has resulted in reduced sentences
for about 3,000 crack offenders [Join Together, USA] |
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Some
Cocaine Offenders Denied Attorneys for Sentence Appeals |
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Some of the estimated 20,000 crack-cocaine
offenders eligible for sentence reductions under a new federal
policy may have to argue their cases without the aid of a lawyer
[Join Together, USA] |
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Funny
Facts, Math, and the Feds |
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The first victim of war is the truth. The math
of the federal government doesn't add up to what the facts are
telling us [D'Alliance, USA] |
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Drug
policy, from scratch |
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What would the ideal U.S. drug policy be? What
would you keep and reject from current laws? [LA Times, USA] |
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