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12
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Publication of Daily Dose will be suspended
at the end of March pending adequate funding - details
here |
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Please don't end publication of the
Daily Dose! |
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It is a unique service - as a journalist who
covers this area, I consider myself reasonably well-informed,
but you routinely find and highlight news coverage and documents
that need further media attention that I have not discovered
[Maia
Szalavitz] |
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Using
the friendship drug |
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Drug abuse may seem to be an overwhelming problem,
but according to one award-winning drug worker, the number of
adults successfully treated is growing all the time [Hendon Times,
UK] |
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Bridgend
coroner says drink and drugs led to deaths of young people |
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The pathologist, said that he had found traces
of Ecstasy, cocaine and morphine in Mr Price’s body [Times,
UK] |
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Football
starlets score major drugs cash sponsorship deal |
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Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said: "We
want to promote the CashBack for Communities scheme to our young
people, and we want to show them that there can be so much more
to life than drink, drugs and offending [Scotsman, UK] |
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Getting
problem drug users (back) into the labour market |
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Invitation
to tender [UKDPC] |
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Launch
of Transform's On-line Volunteer Community |
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We really do need your help and Ed, one of
our office based volunteers, has created an on-line community
which allows you to access and feed into a number of Transform
projects and contribute your ideas [TDPF, UK] |
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Drunken
'Saga louts' causing trouble abroad |
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An increasing number of 50-somethings - known
as "Saga louts" - are over-indulging in alcohol and
food and becoming abusive to locals, an analysis of surveys shows
[Telegraph, UK] |
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How
to write and win successful bids – and keep them! |
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EATA has organised a special series of regional
meetings this Spring, aimed at bringing together members and
selected invited guests for an informative and valuable day of
workshops, discussions about the latest policy developments and
networking [EATA] |
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The
needle exchange doesn't go far enough |
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We need a new facility that includes a safe-injection
site and drug treatment [Times Colonist, Canada] |
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Feds
Fund Study of Marijuana Withdrawal |
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Addiction expert Barbara Mason of the Scripps
Research Institute of La Jolla, California, will oversee a four-year
study of the neurobiology of marijuana dependence under a grant
from the National Institute of Drug Abuse [Addiction Inbox, USA] |
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Rational
Actors, or Why "Generation Rx" Uses Cough Syrup for
Fun |
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Perhaps it's time to stop assuming that these
young people are stupid or clueless. Maybe the issue isn't that
they need to be "educated about risks" but rather that
they already understand our drug policies better than we ourselves
do [Drug Law Blog, USA] |
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Ban
booze sponsorship to stop binge drinking: health chief |
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Sporting groups should drop alcohol-related
sponsorship as part of a national effort to prevent binge drinking
and its dangerous effects, a Victorian health leader says [The
Age, Australia] |
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Youth
Off The Streets 2008 National Scholarship Program |
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The Youth Off The Streets Scholarship Program
celebrates the gifts and strengths of young people from the Australian
community who exhibit determination and potential but who lack
the personal support networks and resources that will allow them
to fulfill that potential [Youth Off The Streets, Australia] |
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Uzbek
officers put UNODC training to good use |
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UNODC-trained law enforcement officers recently
intercepted a large amount of heroin being smuggled through Uzbekistan
[UNODC] |
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Fresh
war on drugs to begin Friday |
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Four members of the Narcotics Control Board
(NCB) appointed by the coup leaders have been removed as the
government prepares to launch its revived war on drugs this Friday
[Bangkok Post] |
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