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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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David
Cameron promises extra jail places |
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Only criminals fulfilling certain criteria
- such as staying off drugs and attending rehabilitation classes
- will be released after the minimum sentence [Telegraph, UK] |
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Council
leaders attack 24-hour drinking laws |
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The introduction of 24-hour drinking laws has
been a catastrophic "mistake" which has turned Britain's
town centres into no-go areas during the evening for everyone
except young drunks, council leaders say today [Telegraph, UK] |
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Next
year's drug |
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Methamphetamine is an extraordinarily powerful
stimulant that has had a devastating impact in North America,
South Africa, Australia and south-east A [New Statesman, UK] |
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ACPO
response to 2008 Drug Strategy |
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The new strategy marks an important step forward
in meeting the harms to society caused by drug use as it brings
together the most important elements of tackling the problem:
effective enforcement aided by a wider community based approach
and an emphasis on prevention and treatment [ACPO, UK] |
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Health
charities in funding crisis |
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The study warns that unless the funding issue
is resolved hundreds of jobs and thousands of services for some
of the most vulnerable people in the most disadvantaged communities
will be lost [ The Herald, Scotland, UK] |
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RS
national assembly adopts anti-drugs strategy |
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The National Assembly of the Republika Srpska
adopted an anti-drugs strategy for the period from 2008 to 2012
[EUPM] |
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ONDCP
Fact Sheet: 2008 National Drug Control Strategy |
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Administration Releases Report Laying Out Methods
To Combat Drug Abuse In America, Highlighting Recent Progress
[ONDCP, USA] |
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2008
National Drug Control Policy |
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By addressing the epidemiology of drug use
and the economics of drug markets, the National Drug Control
Strategy has produced measurable results for the American people.
79-page PDF [White House, USA] |
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Cracked
Justice: Addressing the Unfairness in Cocaine Sentencing |
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Human Rights Watch urges Congress to pass legislation
to remedy the disproportionately harsh and racially discriminatory
penal sanctions for federal crack and cocaine offenses [Human
Rights Watch, USA] |
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Failure
to Assist Overdose Victim Charged as Manslaughter in Ontario |
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An Ontario man who allegedly failed to contact
authorities after his girlfriend overdosed and actively discouraged
other people from contacting authorities is being prosecuted
for involuntary manslaughter as a result [Drug Law Blog, USA] |
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Legality
or illegality does not make a drug all good or all bad |
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Kevin Rudd has admitted that Australia is in
a booze epidemic. Well, what do you expect, when drug lords,
politicians, media, police, sporting, fashion, entertainment
and advertising industries, parents, etc, all call the psychoactive,
recreational party drug ethanol, a drink? [SMH, Australia] |
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Drug
Free Australia launches unreferenced cannabis assault |
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Putting aside the quality of the below information
- why would Drug Free Australia believe that providing unreferenced
text to professionals would give any sense of credibility to
their cause? [Australian Drug Blog] |
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Can
genetics predict risk for alcohol dependence? |
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Inherited variations affect response to alcohol and to alcoholism
treatments [Current Psychiatry] |
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