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Health statistics – Atlas on mortality in the European Union

World Health Statistics 2009 contains WHO’s annual compilation of data from its 193 Member States, and includes a summary of progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and targets: Chapter 22 Alcohol related causes of death pp. 175

Tags: europereport   Date: 03 Sep 09

A Heroin User in Stockholm

Watch our new video and take action – urge the Swedish government to provide access to needle exchange in Stockholm NOW! [Drug Reporter, Hungary]

Tags: europefilm   Date: 28 Aug 09

Stepping away from the darkness

The Drug War has failed. After more than 20 years of tirelessly pushing for the same policy, the efforts have not been able to bring the expanding illicit drug markets under control… {from Newsweek, Argentina} [Transnational Institute, The Netherlands]

Tags: europeprofessional news   Date: 21 Aug 09

Germany Battles Youth Drinking Scourge

For years, Germany has been famous for its tolerant stance toward public drinking [Spiegel Online, Germany]

Tags: europepress   Date: 10 Aug 09

Drugnet Europe 67: July 2009

The EMCDDA’s quarterly newsletter provides regular information on the agency’s activities to a broad readership [EMCDDA}

Tags: europemagazine   Date: 30 Jul 09

Statistical bulletin 2009

The Statistical bulletin is published yearly by the EMCDDA and provides access to the most recent statistical data relating to the drugs situation in Europe [European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction]

Tags: europereport   Date: 30 Jul 09

Reducing Alcohol Harm: things we can do

This booklet is for someone who is interested in learning how to make even his smallest action count [Alcohol, Drugs and Development, Norway & Sweden]

Tags: europereport   Date: 15 Jul 09

Unrecorded alcohol

Professor Diyanath Samarasinghe at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, gives an introduction to how the problem of unrecorded alcohol consumption can be understood and how it can be addressed; by communities, governments and NGOs [Alcohol, Drugs and Development, Norway & Sweden]

Tags: europereport   Date: 15 Jul 09

Alcohol and poverty: some connections

Rather than a culture of saving, alcohol is a part of a culture of spending which drains poor families’ resources, contributing to downward spirals [Alcohol, Drugs and Development, Norway & Sweden]

Tags: europereport   Date: 15 Jul 09

Methamphetamine: a European Union perspective in the global context

This study focuses on the supply and use of methamphetamine in Europe, set in a global context [European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction]

Tags: europereport   Date: 15 Jul 09

Strategy and work programme 2010–12

This work programme ensures that the EMCDDA remains a key resource for Europe – providing high-quality information to underpin effective drug policies and serving as a catalyst for supporting and developing national information systems [EMCDDA]

Tags: europereport   Date: 15 Jul 09

Russia’s Medvedev calls for program to fight alcohol abuse

President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that Russia needs to introduce measures to fight widespread alcoholism and other addiction {Rianovosti, Russia]

Tags: europepress   Date: 02 Jul 09

Towards a world market for coca leaf?

When we think of people like Pope Paul VI, the Queen of Spain or Britain’s Princess Anne, most of us do not think of them as criminals. But that is what they are, under the current international drug law [Transnational Institute, Netherlands]

Tags: europeprofessional news   Date: 28 Jun 09

A Drug-Free Sweden: By All Means?

We interviewed several people from various ideological and professional backgrounds, visited several organizations and institutions, we read the relevant studies and asked the inconvenient questions [Hungarian Civil Liberties Union]

Tags: europefilminterview   Date: 28 Jun 09

Coca Myths

The coca leaf has been used and misused for many ends, each of them suiting different interests and agendas [Transnational Institute, Netherlands]

Tags: europereport   Date: 26 Jun 09

Addiction neurobiology: ethical and social implications

In this report we review the developments in the neuroscience of addiction, explore how they might affect the way we view and treat drug problems, and consider the ethical issues that they raise for drug policy in Europe {long download} [European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction]

Tags: europereport   Date: 25 Jun 09

26 June: International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

Advances in brain research throw light on addiction, says EU drugs agency [EMCDDA]

Tags: europeprofessional news   Date: 25 Jun 09

Neurobiological research on drugs: ethical and policy implications

This briefing paper for policymakers presents how new discoveries in neurobiology have the potential to transform our perception of drug addiction and its treatment, whilst also considering the ethical issues such treatment can raise [EMCDDA]

Tags: europereport   Date: 25 Jun 09

“DD Today: 3 Years Ago”: The Evidence Base for the Classification of Drugs

Evidence base for the classification of drugs, with additional information on drug use, strategy, punishment, treatment regimes and drug education in several countries [RAND, Europe]

Tags: europereport   Date: 07 Jun 09

The Naked Empress: Modern neuro science and the concept of addiction

In the field of addiction I know of no neuroscientist who is interested in ‘addicts’. They are interested in the brain and in as far as they study brains or brain tissue they study mice and rats [CEDRO, The Netherlands]

Tags: europetalk   Date: 04 Jun 09

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