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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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Drug
treatment pilot announced |
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Details of a pilot of a new model of drug treatment
and testing orders (DTTOs) to be tested in the majority of courts
in the Lothians and Borders Community Justice Authority [Scottish
Government, UK] |
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Rethink
and Mind launch stigma survey of mental health users |
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The organisations, along with the Institute
of Psychiatry in London and Mental Health Media, were given £18m
by the Big Lottery Fund and Comic Relief last year to fund a
national anti-stigma campaign on mental health, Moving People,
which will be launched later this year [Community Care, UK] |
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Smokers
could be required to quit in exchange for NHS rights |
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People could be expected to lose weight and
give up smoking in exchange for rights to healthcare to be enshrined
in a new NHS constitution [Guardian, UK] |
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Smokefree
Compliance Data |
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These reports summarise the findings of the
smokefree legislation compliance data collection from local authorities
in England from July 2007 [Smokefree, NHS, UK] |
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Better
to have an E than a bee |
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We should stop agonising over Ecstasy. Richard
Brunstrom is right – it is remarkably safe [Comment, Times,
UK] |
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Brunstrom
on drugs (again). Transform comment in Indie and Mirror |
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Richard Brunstrom, the Chief Constable of North
Wales has again hit the news over his views in support of drug
law reform. The media don't seem to know quite what to make of
him, torn between an intelligent engagement in the debates he
highlights, or tearing into him with personal attacks [TDPF,
UK] |
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Time
to ditch a failing drug policy |
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Politicians will continue to trot out the “tough
on drugs” propaganda for a combination of easy votes and
the maintenance of our special relationship with the US. The
UK public meanwhile, will continue to be swindled out of billions
to support a failed regime. The challenge from the media will
not be enough to force politicians to expose prohibition to significant
scrutiny and explore alternatives [Danny Kushlick writing in
Open House, Independent, UK] |
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Pub
chain limits parents' drinks |
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Adults with children are only allowed two alcoholic
drinks at JD Wetherspoon pubs in order to limit their stay, the
chain has confirmed [BBC, UK] |
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Hostels
win all-night drink bids |
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Nearly 100 youth hostels around the UK have
won 24-hour alcohol licences, in spite of widespread local protests
[BBC, UK] |
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Opiate
addiction is our biggest crisis, despite cocaine epidemic |
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Despite the so-called 'explosion' of cocaine
use throughout Ireland, heroin addiction remains the biggest
problem in the country's dedicated treatment centres [Independent,
Ireland] |
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A
Process Evaluation of the National Drug Awareness Campaign
2003 – 2005 |
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This report represents the completion of a
project to track the development and delivery process of the
National Drugs Awareness Campaign 2003/5. 98-page PDF [NACD,
Ireland] |
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An
open letter to justice minister Rob Nicholson |
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Dear Mr. Nicholson: On Jan. 21, 2008 an extradition
hearing will begin in Vancouver for Marc Emery, Canada's pre-eminent
activist for the legalization of marijuana. Marc has been charged
in the U.S. with conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana,
and conspiring to launder money. If convicted under U.S. law,
he faces possible life imprisonment without parole ... [National
Post, Canada] |
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Drug
test ruling may go to Supreme Court |
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Human rights in Canada have been muddied by
an Alberta ruling that a contractor acted legally in firing a
worker who failed a drug test [Edmonton Journal, Canada] |
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Addiction
crisis ignored by governments |
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Drug and alcohol abuse is the plague of our
country, possibly our world. Yet our governments' approach to
solving this problem is to put our money into punishing the victims
[Times Colonist, Canada] |
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Scientists
testing vaccine for cocaine users |
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Two Baylor College of Medicine scientists based
in Houston have developed a cocaine vaccine that creates antibodies
that bind to the drug and prevent it from travelling from the
bloodstream to the brain [Globe and Mail, Canada] |
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Expand
drug courts through public-private partnerships |
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Opinion from Barry R. McCaffrey, retired general,
former director, Office of National Drug Control Policy - Arlington,
Va [USA Today] |
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Overdose
Rescue Kits Save Lives |
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Public health workers from New York to Los
Angeles, North Carolina to New Mexico, are preventing thousands
of deaths by giving $9.50 rescue kits to drug users [npr, USA] |
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City
to Spend $650,000 on Needle Exchange Programs |
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The District will invest $650,000 in needle
exchange programs to combat the spread of HIV-AIDS in the wake
of Congress's decision to end a ban on the city's use of public
money for such efforts [Washington Post, USA] |
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ONDCP
Hosts Regional Summits on Random Student Drug-Testing |
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The White House Office of National Drug Control
Policy will be hosting four regional Random Student Drug Testing
Summits in 2008 [CADCA, USA] |
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Urbanity,
Rurality, and Adolescent Substance Use |
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An important but understudied aspect of substance
use research is its relationship to characteristics of the community,
including if there are differences in the association between
peer and family factors with use between youth living in rural
and urban areas. Full
report 21-page PDF [RAND, USA] |
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Warning:
Drug Ads Can Make You Sick |
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The drug industry spends billion on advertising
that tells us health and happiness are commodities, and anything
less is a disease. [AlterNet, USA] |
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Daily
alcohol use causes changes in sexual behavior, new study reveals |
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A team of researchers at Penn Sate has used
an animal model to reveal, for the first time, a physiological
basis for the effect of alcohol on male sexual behavior [EurekAlert,
USA] |
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Paramedics
blame ice for resources drain |
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The drug ice, or methamphetamine, caused havoc
in the past year, endangering the lives of thousands of young
Victorians and placing a strain on emergency services' resources
[The Age, Australia] |
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