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Archived Daily News - 20th February 2008
   
 
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Call for alcohol ban in supermarkets
Supermarkets should be banned from selling alcohol to combat Britain's binge-drinking culture, says a health adviser to the Government [Telegraph, UK]
 
Government ‘turns blind eye to prison drugs’
Party leader Eamon Gilmore made the charge as he attacked “lax” Government attitudes to the availability of class A substances in state jails [Irish Examiner]
 
Partnership with business
Co-operation with Industry is a core element of international drug precursor control [European Commission]
 
Drug precursors: internal aspects
Effective control of the chemicals used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances is one of the best ways of combating drug trafficking [Europa]
 
Drug precursors: external aspects
This Regulation lays down the rules governing the thorough monitoring of the trade in precursor drugs between the European Union (EU) and third countries [Europa]
 
Combating drugs
Cooperation between the Member States in the fight against drugs [Europa]
 
Drugnet Europe
January to March 2008 [EMCDDA]
 
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean's Speech
On the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse [Governor General of Canada]
 
Strategies for Success
New pathways to drug abuse prevention,. 12-page PDF [ONDCP]
 
Binge drinking 'epidemic' worries Rudd
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is looking at ways to tackle what he says is a worsening "epidemic" of binge drinking [SMH, Australia]
 
Opium strategy useless, Fitzgibbon tells US
The Minister for Defence, Joel Fitzgibbon, has warned the US that its plan to aggressively eradicate Afghanistan's opium crop by widespread aerial spraying will not work and risks driving Afghan farmers into the hands of the Taliban [SMH, Australia]
 
China Aims for National Chain of Anti-Smoking Clinics
The goal is to have at least one outpatient facility in each province, where smokers would be offered a combination of medical and psychological treatment depending on their nicotine dependence [CRI, China]
 
   

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