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| Archived Daily News - 1st January
2009 |
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National
drug deaths database |
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Details of the social and medical history of
every person whose life is lost to drugs in Scotland will be
recorded and centrally collected from the start of 2009, in a
bid to help prevent future deaths [Scottish Government, UK] |
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Warning
as flesh-eating bug kills drug-user |
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Two other cases had been confirmed previously
and a further possible case has been identified [The Scotsman,
UK] |
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Text
service ‘encourages drink-drivers’ with tip-offs
on breath test checkpoints |
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A company that helps drink-drivers to evade
detection by texting them with locations of police breathalyser
checkpoints has been accused of putting lives at risk on the
roads [Times, UK] |
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Sleepless
Canadians boozing themselves to sleep: Study |
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Sleepless Canadians are self-medicating with
alcohol on a big scale to get to sleep, a new study on the economic
burden of insomnia suggest [The Star Phoenix, Canada] |
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New
Sentencing Guidelines For Crack, New Challenges |
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Thousands of cases across the country in which
crack offenders and their defense attorneys are sparring with
federal prosecutors over how to interpret new sentencing guidelines
for crack possession or sale [Washington Post, USA] |
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U.S.
Government Crisis: Mexico Drug Cartels: Are they Number 1 Organized
Crime Threat in America? |
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Part one of a continuing series on U.S. and
International Drug Trafficking [New Criminologist, USA] |
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Smoking
ban leads to major drop in heart attacks |
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A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a
dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years,
a sign of just how serious a health threat secondhand smoke is,
government researchers said [Yahoo News] |
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Farmers
in the midst of poppy cultivation dilemma |
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Farmers in Nangarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan,
have been told by Taliban insurgents to grow poppy, but the government
has warned them not to [Ariana, Afghanistan] |
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