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Publication of Daily Dose will be suspended
at the end of March until adequate funding can be found - Full
details here |
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Single
drink could push drivers over the limit |
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Drivers could find themselves charged with
drink-driving after a single drink under plans to lower the legal
alcohol limit [Telegraph, UK] |
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Health
Beat: Youth alcohol and drug use in Gloucester |
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More than three-quarters of the high school
students in Gloucester report in a 2005 survey having used alcohol
in the past month, and a third of the middle school students
have as well [Gloucester Daily Times, UK] |
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Cameron:
No "silver bullet" on binge-drinking |
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In an exclusive inteview with The Publican,
the Tory leader explains what his party would do to help pubs,
gives his views on supermarkets and defines binge-drinking [The
Publican, UK] |
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Under-21s
banned from buying booze |
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A small town has become the first in Scotland
to ban off-trade sales of alcohol to under-21s [The Publican,
UK] |
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Evaluation
of Lewisham's 'Don't binge and cringe' campaign |
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The London borough of Lewisham's Drug and Alcohol
Strategy Team (DAST) have released an evaluation of their innovative
approach to tackling binge drinking and its associated harms,
the 'don't
binge and cringe' campaign [Alcohol Policy, UK] |
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Helping
Homeless People |
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Homelessness Monitoring Group Report [Scottish
Government, UK] |
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Fears
over rise in cocaine addiction |
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Leading drug counsellors in Carlisle have warned
that growing numbers of young professionals are coming to them
with cocaine addictions [Cumberland News, UK] |
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2007-08
review |
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The Healthcare Commission will provide the
statutory remit to review substance misuse treatment systems,
while the NTA will provide the specialist knowledge to support
such reviews. The revised
deadline for data submission is 5pm Tuesday 1 April 2008,
and a second opportunity to submit data will be provided from
16 April to 18 April 2008 inclusive [NTA, UK] |
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Clinical
governance |
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The NTA has published a consultation draft
of guidance on clinical governance in drug treatment. There are
important issues about how clinical governance can work across
complex drug treatment systems and how this can be helpful to
drug treatment services and their commissioners. Responses to
the consultation MUST be submitted on the proforma and
should be returned to clinical.governance@nta-nhs.org.uk by 14
May 2008 [NTA, UK] |
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Drugsline
provides out of hours care |
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Drugsline is delighted to announce a further
extension to its support and counselling services [Drugsline,
UK] |
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Ash
and ruin |
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The clampdown tightens. How much harder will
life get for smokers? [Economist, UK] |
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Purely
medicinal? |
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We must grasp the opportunity to respond to
a controversial EU proposal to allow drug companies to provide
information on prescription only drugs directly to the public
[BMJ, UK] |
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Tobacco
and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? |
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The question of whether two drugs – namely
alcohol and tobacco – are used as complements or substitutes
is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies
are considered. 38-page PDF [IZA, Germany] |
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Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: building on strengths. |
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A provincial plan for British Columbia 2008 – 2018.
24-page PDF [Ministry of Children and Family Development, Canada] |
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Mexican
military steps up war on drugs |
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Hundreds of camouflage-clad Mexican troops
flew into the northern city of Ciudad Juarez on Friday to quell
a surge in drug gang murders across the border from El Paso,
Texas [Vancouver Sun, Canada] |
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Venezuela
bombs drug runways near Colombia border |
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The Venezuelan air force bombed a landing strip
used to bring cocaine across the border from Colombia on Friday,
several weeks after the United States criticized President Hugo
Chavez's drug-fighting record [IHT, France] |
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Concerns
Philippine militants using drugs to finance terrorism |
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The head of the Philippines anti drug agency,
Anselmo Avenido Junior, says the agency has received intelligence
the nation's most notorious Islamic militant group, the Abu Sayyaf,
could be involved in the production of marijuana to raise finances
[ABC, Australia] |
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Drink
war blames parents |
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The alcohol industry will target parents in
a $5 million campaign to curb teenage binge drinking, despite
its own research blaming aggressive industry tactics for encouraging
young people to get drunk [The Age, Australia] |
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Soldiers
face court martial over drugs |
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Six New Zealand soldiers have been sent home
from Afghanistan and will face trial for allegedly using drugs
while on active service there [TVNZ, New Zealand] |
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Asia:
A Cleaner Fix |
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Across Indonesia there are an estimated 500,000
injecting drug users. As many as 70 percent of them are HIV positive
[IRIN] |
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