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Stat
a fact |
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A brief summary of statistics for Daily Dose
2007 [Editor] |
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Drugs
rehab to be tested on petty offenders |
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Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing yesterday
announced that drug treatment and testing orders, until now only
used for serious criminals, would be imposed on less serious
lawbreakers in Lothian and the Borders. If it proves successful,
it could be extended nationally. [The Herald, UK] |
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Prickly
subject |
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People who are violent can change, according
to one charity that refuses to disguise its work as 'anger management'
and has helped hundreds of men and women to stop lashing out
at others [Guardian, UK] |
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Ambulance
service receives emergency call every 8 seconds as Binge Britain
welcomes in 2008 |
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Binge-drinking revellers fuelled a chaotic
start to 2008 as over-stretched ambulance workers battled to
cope with emergency calls flooding in at a peak of one every
eight seconds [Daily Mail, UK] |
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Drugs
and tobacco, yes. Why not alcohol too? |
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Far from attempting to curb excessive drinking,
the Government has seemed intent on encouraging it [Times, UK] |
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999
crews deal with three drunks a minute |
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The scale of Scotland's binge-drink culture
was exposed yesterday as it emerged ambulances were sent to three
alcohol-related incidents per minute on Hogmanay [The Scotsman,
UK] |
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Drugs
'legal in 10 years' claim |
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The legalisation of all drugs is "inevitable",
according to the Chief Constable of North Wales [BBC, UK] |
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Chief's
drugs views 'dangerous' |
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Chris Bryant MP, whose Rhondda constituency
in south Wales has been blighted by drug abuse, has criticised
Richard Brunstrom for his remarks [BBC, UK] |
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Anti-drugs
PR campaign slated by review group |
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The last national drug awareness campaign was
riddled with problems and ultimately “fell short” of
its objectives, according to an independent review [Irish Examiner] |
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Drugs
awareness strategy must reflect complexity of the issues |
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The review of the last national drugs awareness
campaign should make essential reading for those involved in
the new campaign [Irish Examiner] |
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French
fume over smoke ban |
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Smokers were savouring their last cigarettes
over morning coffee in cafés across France yesterday,
with café owners predicting financial ruin as a smoking
ban took effect [Scotsman, UK] |
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War
On Drugs Still Failing After All These Years |
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But the drug war proceeds, mostly away from
news cameras and photo-ops, still chewing up federal and state
resources and casting criminal sanctions over entire neighborhoods
[Yahoo] |
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Minorities
less likely to get narcotics for pain |
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Emergency-room doctors are prescribing strong
narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities
are less likely to get them than whites, a study finds [Washington
Times, USA] |
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Puff
snuff: quit-smoking aid added to subsidised-drugs list |
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Smokers whose resolutions for quitting go out
with a puff soon after January 1 are in line for some relief
this year as a drug that curbs cravings is added to the Pharmaceutical
Benefits Scheme [SMH, Australia] |
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