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Just before Human Rights Watch released our report on human rights violations in Chinese drug detention centers on January 7, the Chinese Ministries of Health and Public Security ordered detention centers and jails to improve medical care [Huffington Post, USA]
Norman G. Hoffmann, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and president of Evince Clinical Assessments, is an internationally recognized expert in the area of assessment and outcome evaluation [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
An estimated 4.3 million adults aged 50 or older, or 4.7 percent of adults in that age range, had used an illicit drug in the past year, based on data from 2006 to 2008 [SAMHSA, USA]
The United States attorney in Manhattan is merging the two units in his office that prosecute terrorism and international narcotics cases, saying that he wants to focus more on extremist Islamic groups whose members he believes are increasingly turning to the drug trade to finance their activities [New York Times, UK]
Yet despite these efforts, 1,132 random drug tests of inmates in 2008-09 were positive — the same positive rate of 1.6 percent as 10 years earlier [LA Times, USA]
Ethan Nadelmann is part of Change.org’s Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. We asked Mr Nadelmann to respond to questions to provide context for his work and the causes he supports [change.org, USA]
Issue 3, December 2009 [International Center for Alcohol Policies, USA]
January 2010, Vol. 3, No 1 {Join Together, USA]
In signing the law, Obama underscored the importance of radically limiting the tobacco industry’s capacity to market its products to young people [New England Journal of Medicine, USA]
Eli Grant is a Senior Research Officer of RAPt–Rehabilitation of Prisoners Trust, in the UK. Eli discusses advances in the UK involving the 12 step model of recovery and its effects on UK institutional reform [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
Anne M. Fletcher, MS, RD is the recipient of the Research Society on Alcoholism Journalism Award for Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems—Advice From Those Who Have Succeeded [The Afflicted & Affected, USA}
Two researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, have been awarded the White House Office of National Science and Technology Council’s Presidential Award for Early Career Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) [National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA]
This Guide is intended to help Level I and II Trauma Centers plan, implement, and continually improve the new Committee on Trauma (COT) alcohol-screening and brief intervention requirements [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, USA]
What are readers of Addiction Inbox interested in? Although scarcely scientific, a look at the most-viewed posts here over the past couple of years is indicative of general interest… [Addiction Inbox, USA]
A bill to legalize adult recreational use of marijuana – and allow the drug to be sold and taxed in California – cleared a key hurdle this morning, as the Assembly Public Safety Committee voted 4-3 to move it to the next step in the debate [San Francisco Chronicle, USA]
The New Jersey Legislature approved a measure on Monday that would make the state the 14th in the nation, but one of the few on the East Coast, to legalize the use of marijuana to help patients with chronic illnesses [New York Times, USA]
Millions of Americans with significant acute or chronic pain are being undertreated as physicians fail to provide comprehensive pain treatment, according to recent reviews. The failure is due to inadequate training of physicians, personal biases and, increasingly, fears of prescription analgesic drug abuse [Pain-Topics, USA]
Anthony Massouras is chairman of Addiction Recovery Foundation, and sits on its UKESAD conference committee. He is founder and owner of the Mimosa Healthcare Group in the UK [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
Bob Lynn, Ph.D is an internationally recognized lecturer, researcher and clinician in the field of addictions. He is an LPC and Fellow in Biofeedback Practice. He is also a recognized expert in Family Therapy [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
Needle exchange programs chase political as well as epidemiological dragons, carrying within them both implicit moral and political goals [Harm Reduction Journal, USA]
