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New
Effectiveness bank bulletin |
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A new free update service that alerts subscribers
to recent evaluation studies with important practice implications
[Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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How
Was It For You - A Drug Policy Review of the Year (Part 2) |
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Part two of the best and worst of 2007 - including
the National Drug Strategy Consultation, The Big Book of Drug
Policy from the Conservatives, The Little Book of Legalisation
from Transform Drug Policy Foundation and THAT Today programme
interview [Sara McGrail, Blog, UK] |
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Offender
Health Newsletter |
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Including: Disinfectant Tablets - Possible
uses in a prison setting include being used to disinfect illicitly
held needles, which may be used for tattooing as well as drug-injecting.
10-page PDF [NHS, UK] |
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Scientists
Explain How Alcohol Causes Hypoglycemia |
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Alcohol exerts substantial influences on pancreatic
microcirculation by evoking a massive redistribution of pancreatic
blood flow from the exocrine into the endocrine (insulin-producing)
part via mechanisms mediated by the messenger molecule nitric
oxide and the vagus nerve [Medical News Today, UK] |
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Smoking
age 'should rise to 21' |
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A Dundee cancer specialist is calling for the
age at which people can buy cigarettes to be raised to 21 [BBC,
UK] |
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Dr.
Thomas Kerr: "public health hero" |
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Interview with Dr. Kerr who is a principal
investigator of several large cohort studies involving injection
drug users, HIV-positive individuals and street-involved youth
[Rabble, Canada] |
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Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA) Recovery Outcome Rates |
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Contemporary Myth and Misinterpretation. 33-page
PDF [Hindsfoot Foundation, USA] |
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New
Alcohol Tax Could Ease California’s Budget Deficit by
20 Percent |
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Marin Institute, the California-based alcohol
industry watchdog, recommended today that Governor Schwarzenegger
and state legislators raise taxes on wine, beer and distilled
spirits to help reduce the state’s $14 billion budget shortfall
[Marin Institute, USA] |
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You
Get What You Pay For |
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California's Alcohol Lobby. 9-page
PDF [Marin Institute, USA] |
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Mental
health funding to support youth at risk |
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Young people at risk of mental health and drug
and alcohol problems will benefit from the establishment of 20
new headspace Communities of Youth Services centres throughout
Australia [DoH, Australia] |
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Criminal
Justice Responses to Drug and Drug-Related Offences: Are They
Working? |
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This report attempts to provide some insight
into this question by giving an overview of key findings from
national and state-based evaluations that have been undertaken
of these initiatives 131-page PDF [Australian Institute of Criminology] |
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Hepatitis
News Service (C-Network) |
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Latest Hepatitis C newsletter [Hepatitis Council
of Queensland, Australia] |
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