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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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Radical
drugs strategy |
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An end to short prison sentences for drug misusers
convicted of minor crimes is the first hint that the new drugs
strategy for Scotland, due by the summer, will contain some radical
thinking [The Herald, Scotland, UK] |
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Drug
Policy Modelling Program - New bibliography |
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New DPMP bibliography of Grey Literature [DPMP,
NDARC, University of New South Wales, Australia] |
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Get
your cocaine from Superdrug |
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The celebrity glamorisation of drugs is irrelevant.
There would be huge benefits from legalisation [Comment - Times,
UK] |
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The
cocaine scourge |
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Celebrity cocaine use is a bad influence [Letters
- Times, UK] |
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NCB
Now: Help for young people affected by drugs |
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The NSPCC project Seeing and Hearing the Child
- Rising to the Challenge of Parental Substance Misuse considers
the impact of parental drug misuse on the lives of children and
young people from conception to adulthood [Children & Young
People Now, UK] |
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NCB
Now: A focus on drugs prevention |
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An alliance of children's charities is working
to spread the message that timely and holistic services are needed
to prevent drug-related harm among children and young people
[Children & Young People Now, UK] |
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Analysis:
Substance misuse - Families at centre of drugs strategy |
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The government's new 10-year strategy for combating
drug use sets out a series of ambitious changes to services for
families and young people. But, as Tristan Donovan finds out,
putting these proposals into practice presents a number of challenges
[Children & Young People Now, UK] |
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Substance
misuse training should be mandatory for social workers |
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The government's 10-year drug strategy does
not give social workers the skills to work effectively with families
affected by substance misuse, a leading social work academic
has said [Community Care, UK] |
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Drug
Deaths in Fife, Scotland (2005 -2007) |
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Report on the findings of the Fife Drug Deaths
Monitoring and Prevention Group(Fife Drug and Alcohol Action
Team). 101-page PDF [NHS Fife, UK] |
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Network
No 21 Newsletter |
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Including: recommissioning of drugs services
- dual diagnosis, cannabis and the law - history of the treatment
of drug users in primary care - the role of the in-patient unit
as a valuable component of tier 4 provision - treating a patient
for both their drug use and their alcohol problem [SMMGP, UK] |
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Tackling
antisocial behaviour £13m to help prevent antisocial
behaviour |
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Ed Balls and Beverley Hughes will today call
for more Individual Support Orders (ISOs) to be given alongside
ASBOs to help protect local communities from antisocial behaviour
committed by young people [GNN, UK] |
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The following 4 publications are from
Drug and Alcohol Findings - Issue 7 - Print publication 2002 |
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Tackle
community, school and family systems to help troubled teens |
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Children's lives are hugely affected by parents,
schools, peer groups, public authorities and the law. Family
therapy which orchestrated these multiple systems was more effective
than typical approaches for teenage US drug users. Print
publication 2002 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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Drug-related
youth work - it's not only (or even mainly) about drugs |
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Analysis of nine UK Home Office-funded youth
work projects found that the more freedom workers had to de-focus
from drugs and relate to young people on their own terms, the
more successful they were. Print publication 2002 [Drug
and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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No
reason to deny injectors hepatitis C treatment |
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Good response to and compliance with interferon-based
treatment means no justification for refusing treatment for hepatitis
C infection to continuing injectors. Print publication
2002 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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High-level
hidden US support for needle exchange |
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You won't find it on official web sites, but
in 2000 the former US Surgeon General and senior US scientists
judged there was "conclusive" evidence that needle
exchanges reduced HIV risk. Print publication 2002 [Drug
and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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Licensing
Act 2003: A Lopsided Policy |
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In response to the publication of the government's
review of the Licensing Act 2003, Alcohol Concern has circulated
its own analysis of the licensing reforms. 10-page PDF [Alcohol
Concern, UK] |
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Bottling
up the real issues on binge drinking |
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Hidden in the latest alcohol brouhaha is an
ineluctable truth: legislation may moderate behaviour but it
will never change attitudes [Letters - Guardian, UK] |
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Pub
closures accelerate towards 30 per week |
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Pubs have been closing at the rate of 27 a
week - nearly four every day - over the past year, according
to the latest figures released by the [British Beer & Pub
Association] |
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The
Big Question: Why are so many pubs shutting down, and is their
decline bad for society? |
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According to the British Beer and Pubs Association,
27 pubs a week closed in 2007 – seven times faster than
the previous year and 14 times faster than 2005. This means that
four pubs a day are closing [Independent, UK] |
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NHS
Security Management Service issues guidance for security of
prescriptions |
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The NHS Security Management Service has issued
guidance for the prevention of forgery and fraud to prescribers,
pharmacists and others involved in the management of prescriptions.
51 page PDF [NeLM, NHS, UK] |
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Cannabis
Factories in Germany Growing Like Weeds |
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Criminals are increasingly cultivating cannabis
in Germany to get around stricter border controls [Spiegel, Germany] |
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The
Swedish action plan on narcotic drugs 2006-2010 |
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The Swedish action plan on narcotic drugs states
that long-term preventive work to achieve a drug-free society
must continue. The work at local level is crucial to achieving
successful results. At the same time cooperation within the EU
and internationally must increase, as almost all illegal drugs
consumed come from outside Sweden. Children, young people and
parents will be given special priority as target groups in the
coming years [Government Offices of Sweden] |
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Czech-Republic:
Supreme Court rules in favour of cannabis grower |
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The Supreme Court recently ruled in favour
of a woman who had grown cannabis for medicinal purposes and
who had been previously found guilty of illegal production and
possession of drugs by a lower court [Canna Zine, UK] |
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The
new old push on alcohol control |
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Taxing booze based on alcohol content [Alcohol
Policy Network, Canada] |
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Report
Maps US Drug, Mental Health Issues By State |
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Vermont leads the United States in marijuana
use, while Utah has the highest number of people reporting mental
health problems, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday,
based on a new state-by-state report [New York Times, USA] |
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As
Older Addicts Seek Help, a New Generation Gap |
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Addiction specialists and organizations for
the elderly anticipate a tidal wave of baby boomers needing help
for addictions, often for different substances and with different
attitudes toward treatment than the generation that came before
them [New York Times, USA] |
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SAMHSA
to Provide $3.75 Million to Train Medical Residents in SBIRT
Techniques |
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration is accepting grant applications for the Screening,
Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT) Medical Residency
Program [SAMHSA, USA] |
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Faith-Based
Organizations Express Support for Needle-Exchange Programs |
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Faith-based organizations on Monday during
an event voiced support for needle-exchange programs as a means
of preventing the spread of HIV among injection drug users and
their partners [Kaiser Network, USA] |
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Marijuana
Withdrawal Rivals Nicotine |
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A small study in the journal Alcohol and Drug
Dependence likened withdrawal from cannabis to that of withdrawal
from nicotine, in the case of smokers addicted to either or both
substances [Addiction Inbox, USA] |
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Protection
still the key to survival |
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A new report on HIV predicts a more than 70%
increase in new infections in Victoria by 2015 if nothing fresh
is done to curb the spread of the disease [The Age, Australia] |
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Cannabis
remains most abused illicit drug: report |
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An international narcotics report shows cannabis
continues to be the most abused illicit drug in Australia [ABC,
Australia] |
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Prohibitions |
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Prohibitions is a corrective to the prevailing
sympathy for paternalistic authoritarianism. It is a part of
the intellectual resistance movement. Each chapter considers
a significant prohibition on voluntary transactions, from prostitution
to recreationaldrugs to gambling. 140-page PDF [Institute of
Economic Affairs, Australia] |
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Shock
tactics hoped to scare students away from drugs |
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A group of former detectives is taking a hard-hitting
message to New Zealand high schools about the dangers of methamphetamine
[TV3, New Zealand] |
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HIV?
Human Rights Abuses?...The INCB Has More Pressing Concerns |
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The United Nations body responsible for overseeing
the international drug control conventions is worried about celebrities
using drugs, claiming that dealing with famous people in a lenient
manner encourages a permissive attitude to drugs among young
people [HR2 - IHRA blog] |
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INCB
prioritise celebrity tat over human rights abuses and mass
murder |
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This excellent Aljazeera report, posted on
YouTube, covers Thailand's 2004 drug crackdown in which over
2000 people were executed by police, and the threatened revival
of this murderous policy by the new PM, Samak Sundarave [TDPF,
UK] |
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INCB:
controversial statements on coca leaf |
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Cultivation of coca bush and uses of coca leaf
under the international drug control treaties [TNI - UNGASS,
Netherlands] |
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INCB & Coca |
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A colonial attitude unworthy for a UN agency [TNI - UNGASS,
Netherlands] |
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Andean
countries brush off UN recommendation to criminalize chewing
of coca leaves |
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Peru and Bolivia brushed off calls from a U.N.-affiliated drug
watchdog to criminalize the chewing of coca leaves, a millennia-old
tradition of indigenous populations in the Andes [IHT, France] |
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