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| Archived Daily News - 15th
February 2009 |
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Fears
over alcohol test for mothers |
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Screening breast milk could increase women's
drinking and harm their babies, say doctors [Observer, UK] |
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Transplant
row over organs for drinkers |
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Heavy drinkers are receiving nearly one in
four of the UK's liver transplants, it was revealed last night,
igniting a furious row about the ethics of allocating organs
to people with alcohol problems [Observer, UK] |
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Drinkers
could lose their benefits and be made to take alcohol tests |
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People who lose their jobs could be denied
unemployment benefit if they refuse to tell the government how
much they drink [Times, UK] |
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The
story of Spice |
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They are not currently included in the periodically
updated list of banned narcotic substances in the Misuse of Drugs
Act, supervised by the Home Office ... While the regulators gear
up to move against Spice, its purveyors are moving on to the
next product, always one step ahead of the law [Financial Times,
UK] |
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Ecstasy
Ensnares Upper-Class Teenagers in Brazil |
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Ecstasy’s emergence as the drug of Brazil’s
wealthy has opened the door even wider for corrupt police officers
to seize upon users and their families [New York Times, USA] |
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Ecstasy
use shoots up across the city |
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The use of ecstasy in Sydney has skyrocketed
by as much as 112 per cent in the past two years, highlighting
the ineffectiveness of deterrent strategies such as sniffer dogs,
a drug expert has said [SMH, Australia] |
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