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New
work programme for NICE |
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Dawn Primarolo, the Minister with responsibility
for Public Health and NICE said: "NICE is being asked to
produce guidance on severe mental illness in conjunction with
substance misuse. We have also asked NICE to develop joint public
health and clinical guidance on alcohol use disorders that will
not only cover prevention and early identification but also initial
management" [DoH, UK] |
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Working
Together to Reduce Harm - The Substance Misuse Strategy for
Wales 2008-2018 |
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This consultation sets out and invites views
on our new substance misuse strategy, entitled “Working
Together to Reduce Harm”. [Welsh Assembly Government, UK] |
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Tackling
harm caused by alcohol is at the heart of new strategy |
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Tackling the harm caused by alcohol is at the
heart of a new 10 year substance misuse strategy issued for consultation
today. End of consultation: 13/05/2008 [Welsh Assembly Government,
UK] |
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Drinking
culture crackdown plans |
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The harm caused by alcohol abuse is at the
heart of a new 10-year substance misuse strategy in Wales [BBC,
UK] |
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Children
who try to buy alcohol 'go unpunished' |
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Under-age children who try to buy wine and
beer have only a one in 282,000 chance of being punished, it
has been claimed [Telegraph, UK] |
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Beer
cheaper than water drives surge in supermarket drink sales |
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Forty-one per cent of Britain's beer is now
bought in shops and supermarkets, compared to 33 per cent in
2000 and 30 per cent in 1986 [Scotsman, UK] |
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SNP
threatens to tax supermarkets in war on booze culture |
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The Scottish Government is preparing to take
on supermarkets and off-licences in the battle against alcohol
abuse, forcing them to pay a levy under new plans to make retailers
meet the social cost of the country's "bevvy culture" [Scotsman,
UK] |
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Cocaine |
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YouTube video [UK] |
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Alan
Duncan's drug problem |
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It must be tough being a politician, especially
a senior shadow cabinet member like Alan Duncan MP, when you
have the intellectual curiosity and courage to look into a policy
idea, agree with it and then write about it, but when it turns
out to be a rather contentious idea like drug law reform, something
that your party has no truck with [TDPF, UK] |
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Imperial
object to cannabis health warnings on Rizla |
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The ongoing and rather ridiculous saga of Rizla
(or rather Imperial Tobacco, which owns the brand) cashing in
its central role in the multi-million pound cannabis paraphernalia
market whilst its PR people pathetically try to disassociate
the company from cannabis use, has taken a new and unfortunate
turn [TDPF, UK] |
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Addaction
hires new fundraisers ahead of major appeal launch |
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The charity is laying the groundwork for a £10
million campaign to fund innovative work with families and young
people affected by drug or alcohol problems [Addaction, UK] |
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Obituary
- Keith Ball |
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Cardiologist, medical campaigner and co-founder
of Ash [Guardian, UK] |
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Comic
Relief funding for young people and alcohol projects |
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Does your organisation work with young people
experiencing problems with their own alcohol use? If YES then
Comic Relief wants to hear from you [Alcohol Policy, UK] |
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Snapshot
of a cocaine nation |
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A survey by the Health Service Executive (HSE)
on drug usage, published today, finds cocaine use has become
an almost everyday feature of young people's social lives [Independent,
Ireland] |
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The
Party’s Over |
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HSE and the Department of Community Rural and
Gaeltacht Affairs launch National Public Awareness Campaign about
cocaine: ‘The Party’s Over’ [Drugs.ie, Ireland] |
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President
Bush tries to revive a ban on needle-exchange programs in the
District |
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Tucked into President Bush's 2009 budget proposal
is the resurrection of a provision, dumped by Congress last year,
that prohibits the District from using its own money to fund
needle-exchange programs [Washington Post, USA] |
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Breaking
the Drug Taboo: Group of Traumatized Veterans Get Experimental
Ecstasy Treatment |
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An experimental study that treats PTSD veterans
with the drug MDMA could make life after war a lot more livable
[AlterNet, USA] |
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Is
there a more efficient and ethical way to reduce drug abuse
in the US than by conducting a war on drugs? |
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A debate on the website [Helium, USA] |
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Prozac
Nation? |
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The returns Aren't in [Slate, USA] |
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News
of substance - drugs in the worldwide news |
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I thought I’d start a new weekly roundup
of drug news hitting the mainstream media. Daily
Dose does a brilliant daily roundup but my one will cast
a wider net and will also include some video links where possible
[Australian Drug Blog] |
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