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| Archived Daily News - 10th
February 2008 |
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Legal
drug craze is new killer |
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Once it was cocaine, speed or heroin, but now
the fashion is for legal pills, washed down by spirits [Observer,
UK] |
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GPs
have got Britain 'hooked on painkillers' |
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Doctors are unwittingly fuelling the growing
number of Britons hooked on prescription drugs by giving patients
dangerously high doses of medicines that can prove highly addictive,
a parliamentary inquiry has concluded [Observer, UK] |
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Revealed:
the shocking drink and drugs truth |
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One in five Irish drinkers want to cut back
on their consumption of alcohol and nearly 10 per cent are so
worried they want to banish drink from their lives for good,
a Millward Brown IMS National Opinion Poll has found [Irish Independent] |
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Catching
Up to the Boys, in the Good and the Bad |
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Teenage girls now equal or outpace teenage
boys in alcohol consumption, drug use and smoking, national surveys
show [Washington Post, USA] |
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New
Community “Strategizer” on Prescription Drugs |
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ONDCP's National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
has partnered with Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of American
(CADCA) to create a Strategizer for community groups that includes
strategies, case studies, and resources for initiating or enhancing
a prescription drug abuse campaign in your community [ONDCP,
USA] |
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Most
Drug Prevention and Treatment Programs Recommended for Cuts
in President’s Budget Request |
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CADCA is calling on community coalitions to
make advocacy a top priority this year, and is working with other
major national groups in the prevention field to develop a unified
response to the proposed cuts [CADCA, USA] |
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