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11
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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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City
drugs tsar to stand down |
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Former Lothian and Borders deputy chief constable
Tom Wood (above) will leave the Edinburgh action team in the
summer and hand over to council health chief Peter Gabbitas [Scotsman,
UK] |
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Drugs
tsar: 'He has had to grasp the wider social issues' |
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Thenews that former deputy chief constable
Tom Wood is to step down after three years of leading the city's
fight against drugs and alcohol will be a blow [Scotsman, UK] |
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Safety,
Risks and Outcomes from the Use of Injecting Paraphernalia |
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The final report of the findings of a study
into the impact of providing paraphernalia to injecting drug
users [Scottish Government] |
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Scottish
Government announces funding for alcohol misuse |
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Record funding of £25 million for tackling
alcohol misuse was announced today [Scottish Government] |
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Under
age drinking league tables planned for London |
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Conservative mayoral candidate Boris Johnson
has threatened to 'name and shame' London boroughs that are not
tackling under age drinking [Children & Young People, UK] |
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Drugs
charity sets up network for grandparent carers |
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Adfam, which supports families affected by
drug misuse, has been given £100,000 by the City of London
Corporation's City Bridge Trust [Children & Young People,
UK] |
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White
rips site study |
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Police chief says injection facility would
boost drug use [Ottawa Sun, Canada] |
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Needle
exchange deserves a chance |
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The evidence is that needle exchanges are an
important part of our response to intravenous drug use [Times
Colonist] |
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Inside
$10m Sydney heroin bust |
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Almost $10 million in drugs and cash has been
seized as an alleged international smuggling operation, involving
furniture imported into Sydney, has been busted [Telegraph, Australia] |
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Super-strength
drinks down the drain as Rudd flexes muscles |
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Super-strength "alcopops" and potent
energy drinks will be dropped by three major breweries, prompting
claims the industry is fearful of a Federal Government crackdown
on the controversial pre-mixed spirits market [The Age, Australia] |
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Advertisers
and alcohol industry prepare for inquiry showdown |
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As a senate inquiry into alcohol advertising
begins, the industry will mount a two-pronged approach, with
the advertising agency peak body concentrating its efforts on
talking up self-regulation for the $12 billion a year alcohol
industry [SMH, Australia] |
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Ladies'
vodka sparks binge fears |
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Touted as a glamour product for upwardly mobile
women in booming Russia, Damskaya, or "Ladies' vodka",
worries doctors who fear a fresh wave of female alcoholics in
a country already suffering one of the world's worst drink problems
[SMH, Australia] |
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Struggling
for Solutions As Opium Trade Blossoms |
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On a recent cold spring day, just as the first
small sprouts of poppies began pushing out of the southern Afghanistan
earth, the members of Uruzgan province's poppy eradication council
gathered around a wood stove in the governor's compound here
for their first meeting [Washington Post, USA] |
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Tobacco
warning for India's young |
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Nearly one in five school children in India use some form of
tobacco, according to a survey conducted by the World Health
Organisation [BBC, UK] |
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