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Daily
Dose sponsorship - an attractive "New DDeal" |
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Personal
Stories |
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'The stories we create influence the stories
of other people, those stories give rise to still others, and
soon we find meaning and construction within a web of story making
and story living.' J. Bruner [David Clark Blog, Wired In] |
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New
mapping tool to tackle drug addiction |
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A pioneering new tool for drug workers and
clinicians to promote behaviour change in drug-dependent clients
is endorsed today by the National Treatment Agency for Substance
Misuse [NTA, UK] |
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Frozen |
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Twenty-eight days off Meth and I'm feeling
a tad bipolar. At this point, emotions are still an undiscovered
country [GuyinGHo Blog, Wired In] |
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All
Party Parliamentary Group on Complex Needs and Dual Diagnosis |
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Tuesday 24th February 4.30pm Committee Room
2, House of Lords [Turning Point, UK] |
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Britain
tops European league for abuse as 'half our children try cannabis
by 16' |
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Forty-four per cent of Britons aged 15 to 16
admit experimenting with the drug, compared with fewer than 10
per cent in Greece, Sweden and Norway [Daily Mail, UK] |
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Cannabis
reclassification materials (Home Office) |
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[DrugData Update, UK] |
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Young
People in Cumbria 2008 |
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Looking at the data it’s clear the findings
are from work they have done with the SHEU; and as a result are
much wider than alcohol [Drug Education News, UK] |
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Ministry
of Defence propaganda and the Afghan drug war |
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The media today is full of reports about a
massive military operation in the Helmland province of Afghanistan,
codenamed DIESEL. Closer examination reveals reporting of the
operation to have been dramatically propagandized by the Ministry
of Defense, with the media acting as their willing - if somewhat
confused - accomplice [TDPF, UK] |
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UN
warns on new drug route to UK |
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A major new cocaine trafficking route has developed
into the UK through the Balkans, the UN has warned [BBC, UK] |
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International
drugs body calls for global action as internet dealing rises
to 'alarming' levels |
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The internet is playing an increasing and "alarming" role
in the trafficking of both illegal and unauthorised prescription
drugs, according to the body that monitors the trafficking and
use of narcotics [Guardian, UK] |
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Accreditation
drives up US treatment outcomes, cost-containment systems drive
them down |
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Probably the most reliable such study to emerge
from the USA suggests that on-site inspection with accreditation
has substantially improved outcomes, while an externally imposed
value-for-money mandate motivated by cost-containment has even
more substantially eroded them [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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Ondansetron
shown to be a viable treatment option for opioid addiction |
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Scientists at Stanford University School of
Medicine have discovered that a commonly available non-addictive
drug can prevent symptoms of withdrawal from opioids with little
likelihood of serious side effects [News-Medical, USA] |
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Drug
violence mars Mexico city |
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With the added bonus of a few thousand consumers,
in the form of tourists, on site, it is easy to see why the city
is the jewel in the crown for Mexican drug traffickers. The battle
for its control is brutally fought [BBC, UK] |
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Zero
tolerance against drugs |
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The UAE’s large population of young people,
particularly those living outside the cities, have a limited
amount of entertainment outlets and drugs all too often become
an insidious escape route from boredom [The National, UAE] |
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“Poor
progress” in opium fight |
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The lack of security in Afghanistan is "severely
hampering" efforts to tackle opium production, a drugs monitoring
body has warned [Daily Express, UK] |
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Failure
to end Afghan heroin trade is killing thousands of Britons |
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A damning official report reveals that the
Taliban is earning as much as £200million a year by controlling
and taxing Afghanistan's massive opium industry - which produces
more than nine tenths of the world's heroin - helping to buy
weapons and explosives which kill British troops [Daily Mail,
UK] |
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Harsh
cannabis laws defy good sense – Expert |
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Drug legislation and policy tend to focus too
much on enforcement and tough-talk and too little on evidence
about what really works, a visiting expert told the Healthy Drug
Law Symposium in Wellington today. The result is often irrational
laws that cause considerable harm, he said [Scoop, New Zealand] |
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Bangkok
Dialogue |
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The First Southeast Asian Informal Drug Policy
Dialogue [TNI] |
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