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Daily
Dose sponsorship details |
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WIRED is
appealing for sponsors whose support is absolutely essential
for the continued publication of Daily Dose [Editor] |
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Supermarket
alcohol price 'fix' to curb binge drinkers |
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Ministers are preparing to approve plans that
would allow supermarkets to collude in alcohol price rises as
part of efforts to stem Britain's binge drinking epidemic. [Guardian,
UK] |
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Drug
policies |
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Headline drug policies supported only by thin
evidence. Dame Ruth Runciman Chair, UK Drug Policy Commission
[Letter - Independent, UK] |
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Little
benefit from matching gender or race of client and therapist |
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Following negative findings for group therapy,
a study of cocaine counselling found that even in one-to-one
therapy, matching clients and therapists by gender or race did
not improve retention or outcomes [Drug and Alcohol Findings,
UK] |
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Don't
argue about methadone dose - let stabilised patients choose |
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That seems the implication of a US study which
found that stabilised methadone patients allowed to set their
own doses did not escalate excessively and 'on-top' drug use
was reduced [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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Try
telling youngsters the truth about how much their mates drink |
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Simple idea and it can work - youngsters think
their age-mates drink more than they really do and try to match
up. Solution - correct the misperceptions and there is less pressure
to drink [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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Gin
Lane |
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In this week’s opening editorial Thomas
Babor proposes that countries are like people when it comes to
alcohol: some can handle their moderate drinking well, but some—like
Britain—develop "a pathological pattern of alcohol
misuse" [BMJ, UK] |
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Tackling
alcohol misuse in the UK |
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Higher alcohol taxes and restricting availability
are more likely to succeed than partnerships with industry [Editorial
- BMJ, UK] |
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The
Effectiveness of Court Appointed Drug Education |
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The perspective of the voluntary sector. 26-page
PDF [Crosscare Drug Awareness Programme, Ireland] |
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Lenihan
rejects festival drugs proposal |
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Justice Minister Brian Lenihan yesterday firmly
rejected a call from a respected drug counselling service that
people caught with small amounts of cannabis and other drugs
at festivals should not be prosecuted [Irish Examiner] |
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EU
Civil Society Forum on Drug Issues |
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Summary report of the first meeting of the
EU Civil Society Forum held in Brussels on December 13th and
14th 2007. 5-page PDF [IDPC] |
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Unique
in International Relations? |
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A Comparison of the International Narcotics
Control Board and the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies? 46-page
PDF [IDPC] |
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Beckley
Foundation Report 13 |
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This report - a collaborative effort between
several drugs, health, and human rights NGOs ? looks at the tensions
between some aspects of the global drug control system, and UN
human rights standards. 52-page PDF [IDPC] |
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IDPC
Briefing 7 |
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The International Narcotics control Board;
Current tensions and options for reform. 23-page PDF [IDPC] |
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This
is Your Brain on Drugs |
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According to Charles Barber, since the early
1990s mental illness has gone from shameful to shameless ...
This profit-driven popularization deliberately blurs the line
between true psychosis and simply feeling lousy [Washington Post,
USA] |
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Five
letters in today's Wall Street Journal |
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Rather like the Financial Times in the UK,
the Wall Street Journal in the US seems more able than many other
papers to engage intelligently with the debate around the failure
of prohibition and possible alternative approaches [TDPF, UK] |
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2008
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report - Volume I:
Drug and Chemical Control |
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The INCSR is an annual report by the Department
of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign
Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of key countries to
attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar
Year 2007 [U.S. Department of State] |
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2008
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report - Volume II:
Money Laundering and Financial Crimes |
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The INCSR is an annual report by the Department
of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign
Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of key countries to
attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar
Year 2007 [U.S. Department of State] |
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New
Study Outlines Harm of Smoking Marijuana During Pregnancy |
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The Journal of the American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry has just published a new study on
the effects of prenatal exposure to marijuana [Pushing Back,
ONDCP, USA] |
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Addicts,
Alcoholics Overload Prison System |
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For the first time in American history, according
to a study released by the Pew Center on the States, more than
one in every 99.1 adult men and women are now in prison or in
jail [Addiction Inbox, USA] |
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Alcohol
Dependence And Abuse A Major Health Problem In The United States |
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Now the third-leading lifestyle-related cause
of death in the United States, excessive drinking accounts for
75,000 deaths each year [Medical News Today, UK] |
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Peer-Reviewed
Science Must Be The Source For Policy Decisions Regarding Drug
Harm-Reduction |
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The authors of a Reflection and Reaction comment
in the March issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases take a hard
line on some health policy research posted on the Internet, especially
regarding evidence based drug harm reduction. In particular,
they focus on a website posted as the Institute on Global Drug
Policy (IGDP) which prevents itself as"an online open access
journal," but also happens to be a part of the Drug Free
America Foundation [Medical News Today, UK] |
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Google
unveils medical record service |
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Google Inc has unveiled a plan to help US patients
gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors'
groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive
health data [The Age, Australia] |
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US
warns Mexico on drugs boom |
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Washington on Friday warned that the security
of Mexico and the US were at stake in the battle against Mexico’s
booming drugs trade, acknowledging that the increasingly violent
fight is far from being won [FT, UK] |
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FIFA
signs anti-doping accord with WADA |
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FIFA on Friday signed an agreement with WADA
that will see football's world ruling body working more closely
with the World Anti Doping Agency in a bid to stamp out drugs
cheats [The Age, Australia] |
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JAPAN:
Alcohol study released |
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Japanese researchers have found alcohol makes
bad memories linger [ABC, Australia] |
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Thriving
Taliban Drugs Show Afghan Woes |
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The Taliban have built a huge and profitable
drug operation in Afghanistan while provincial governors look
the other way, the latest grim sign of backsliding in a country
the U.S. has spent six years and billions of dollars trying to
salvage [New York Times, USA] |
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U.S.
Drug Report Cites Afghan Rebel - Opium Poppy Link |
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Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan
are funding their fight against the U.S.-backed government with
opium poppy revenues, but more secure parts of that country are
making progress in curbing drugs [New York Times, USA] |
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1st
global conference on methamphetamine: |
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Prague, Czech Republic 15th - 16th September 2008 [Global Conference
on Methamphetamine] |
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