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The logos of our new Main Sponsors
will be on Daily Dose shortly |
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These sponsors are: Addaction, Concateno
plc, Castle Craig Hospital, CRI, C4 Recovery Solutions, Drugscope,
FRANK, Home Office, National Treatment Agency, Scottish Government,
ScriptBase, STRADA and The Vision Group
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The
polarising of debates |
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We all have to find our own way. There should
be a range of options, like a menu in a restaurant! We cannot
profess to know what another person’s life is like or what
will work for them, but we can listen and share and respond rather
than have pre-determine outcomes with a set of fixed conditions
[Steph Blog, Wired In] |
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Drug
advisory body yet to meet – a year after strategy switch |
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Scotland's community safety minister, Fergus
Ewing, has come under fire for failing to meet with his own team
of drugs advisers since launching the SNP's flagship anti-drugs
strategy nearly a year ago [The Scotsman, UK] |
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Think
Tank: Lift ban and win the drugs war |
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We’ve tried prohibition and it has failed.
So my advice to Brian Lenihan as he tries to balance the budget
is this: legalise it, control it, tax it - Gerard O’Neill
is an economist and market researcher [Times, UK] |
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The
indignity of claiming benefits: My rant |
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How are people who have lost their jobs through
redundancy or other factors be expected to know and understand
the bureaucracy of these departments? Do the personnel themselves
understand them? Are they deliberately structured in such a fashion
as to cause distress to people? [Will Blog, Wired In] |
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Both
Sides of the Coin |
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The Both Sides of The Coin project grew out
of the second Goodenough Drug Strategy and a series of informal
discussions between people working in the field of financial
exclusion and people from the drugs field looking at how the
multiple problems of poverty, social exclusion, stigma and poverty
might affect people who experience problems with drugs [Sara
McGrail, UK] |
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Once
again I’ve cocked things up… |
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The consequences of my actions have really
hit me harder this time than ever before (maybe because I’m
sober). I know how much my actions can hurt those around me,
even when I’m not using heroin… I’m struggling
to come to grips with the pain and anguish I’ve caused… [I'm
an addict ok Blog, WIred In] |
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From
heaven to hell: 18 die as drugs war rages on streets of Vancouver |
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As Vancouver has boomed over the past two decades,
attracting wealthy immigrants from across Canada and the Pacific,
so too has the illegal drugs trade [Independent, UK] |
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Drug
Treatment, Not Prison |
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We applaud the governor’s focus on treatment,
rather than punishment, to end the cycle of addiction [Letter
New York Times, USA] |
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Needle-exchange
programs Christian thing to do |
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The Texas Legislature is currently considering
bills that would allow the establishment of programs to enable
injecting drug users to exchange used syringes for sterile ones,
as a proven means of reducing the spread of blood-borne diseases
[Houston Chronicle, USA] |
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Brain
Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory |
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Suppose scientists could erase certain memories
by tinkering with a single substance in the brain. Could make
you forget a chronic fear, a traumatic loss, even a bad habit
[New York Times, USA] |
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U.S.
Aid Delays in Drug War Criticized |
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After promising $1.4 billion last year under
a landmark initiative to help fight drug trafficking in Mexico,
the U.S. government has spent almost none of the money, fanning
criticism on both sides of the border that the United States
is failing to respond quickly to the deepening crisis [Washington
Post, USA] |
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