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BCS
Crime Stable While Total Recorded Crime Continues To Fall |
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Drug offences up 21 per cent – the rise
in this and previous quarters coincided with increases in the
police use of powers to issue cannabis warnings [Home Office,
UK] |
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Ministers
have missed 122 of 346 Whitehall performance targets |
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Class A drug use amongst young people: Latest
Assessment - Slippage, Frequent drug use by young
people:Latest Assessment - On course, Frequent
drug use by vulnerable young people:Latest Assessment
- On course, Class A drug use by vulnerable young
people: Latest Assessment - Slippage. DCSF
targets 70-page PDF [Drug Education News, UK] |
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Binge
drinking: young people’s attitudes and behaviour |
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We consider the questions that these findings
pose collectively for the future of the programme, the national
alcohol strategy and the youth alcohol action plan, due to be
published in Spring 2008. 11-page PDF [Positive Futures, UK] |
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Welsh
school pulls out all the stops to tackle underage drinking |
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The work won them a Mentors UK Champ Award
for promoting children’s health through alcohol misuse
prevention – and prize money of £20,000 [Community
Care, UK] |
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ACMD
cannabis classification review submission (round 3) |
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Tediously enough the ACMD will yet again be
reviewing cannabis reclassification next month (for the third
time in 5 years) and Transform today publishes its written submission (13-page
PDF) [TDPF, UK] |
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Report
finds huge shortfall in detox beds |
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Ireland has less than a fifth of the hospital
beds needed to detox drug addicts and alcoholics, according to
a report [Irish Examiner] |
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Wait
list for N.B. drug treatment shrinks, needle-exchange numbers
rise |
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The decreasing numbers on methadone treatment
waiting lists in New Brunswick does not reflect the reality of
the drug problem in the province, say some frontline workers
[CBC, Canada] |
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Bosses
may fire workers for using medical pot off duty |
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California employers may fire workers for using
medical marijuana with a doctor's recommendation while off duty
even if the drug does not impair an employee's performance, the
California Supreme Court ruled [LA Times, USA] |
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ONDCP
Launches First Major Initiative to Combat Teen Prescription
Drug Abuse |
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The national public awareness campaign will
begin with advertising during this year's Super Bowl, and is
ONDCP's first paid TV advertising targeting parents in nearly
two years [ONDCP, USA] |
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Congress
Cuts Budget of Ineffective Anti-Drug Ad Campaign |
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In December, Congress passed a budget bill
that cuts 2008 funding for the White House's anti-drug media
campaign, the program responsible for ads such as the outlandish
Super Bowl PSA that called marijuana users terrorists [DPA, USA] |
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Evaluation
of the ONDCP Anti-Drug Media Campaign |
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Released August 2006 [NIDA, USA] |
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Random
Student Drug Testing Opponents Get the Word Out in Washington |
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As the Bush Administration's final year of
student drug testing summits kicked off in Washington State last
week, supporters of alternatives to this potentially harmful
policy showed the Drug Czar's representatives that they would
meet opposition to random student drug testing every step of
the way [DPA, USA] |
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In
Taxing Illegal Drugs, the Trouble Comes in Collecting |
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Strange as it may seem to levy a tax on a commodity
that no one is supposed to have, 29 states have passed laws that
impose taxes on illegal drugs and controlled substances [New
York Times, USA] |
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Marijuana
withdrawal as bad as withdrawal from cigarettes |
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Study could potentially help clinicians treat
marijuana addiction [EurekAlert, USA] |
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Marijuana
Smokers Face Rapid Lung Destruction |
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A study finds that the development of bullous
lung disease occurs in marijuana smokers approximately 20 years
earlier than tobacco smokers [Australian Healthcare & Hospitals
Association] |
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Business
Coalitions: a joint response to AIDS |
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The report (84-page
PDF) is an in-depth study of the activities of Business Coalitions
and will help define how they can better support the private
sector in responding to AIDS [UNAIDS] |
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