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Get the prof's selections and reflections delivered
to your intray [Prof David Clark, Wired In] |
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Paranoia,
panic attacks and memory loss |
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The launch of a new cannabis advertising campaig
from the drug information service FRANK [Home Office, UK] |
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NEXT
Scholarships - Rebuilding lives |
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Addaction’s NEXT Scholarship Programme
provides personal development and training to people who have
been through drug and alcohol treatment services and want to
rebuild their lives so that they are active contributors to the
community [Addaction, UK] |
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Help
with a part-time PhD study |
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The use of drugs in older adults and the implications
for clinical management and service development - I am looking
to interview anyone over the age of 50 who has used an illicit
drug in the last year [Mark
Mason, UK] |
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Research
Roundup |
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A compendium of
research papers from Mike Ashton, editor of Drug and Alcohol
Findings [Drug Education News, UK] |
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Ecstasy,
Drugscope And The ACMD |
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DrugScope’s endorsement of the Advisory
Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) recommendation to downgrade
ecstasy appears to be self contradictory [Peter O'Loughlin -
Medical News Today, UK] |
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Toads
the latest enemy in Iran's war on drugs |
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Experts say addicts have begun breeding toads
for the purpose of rolling their dried skins inside cigarettes.
Smoking them releases potentially addictive hallucinations, which
are produced by a poisonous chemical normally used by the amphibians
as a weapon against prey and predators [Guardian, UK] |
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Alcohol
DES payments published |
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The Statement
of Financial Entitlements (Amendment) Directions 2009 has
been published, enabling the introduction of payment mechanisms
for the new five clinical directed enhanced services including
the alcohol DES [Alcohol Policy UK] |
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We
Are a Nation of Junkies Hooked on Media-Fabricated Outrage |
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As the Phelps 'scandal' proves yet again, our
narcotic of choice - creating controversy where none exists -
packs a punch [AlterNet, USA] |
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A
new drug czar, a new opportunity |
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If President Obama appoints Seattle Police
Chief Gil Kerlikowske as the nation's new drug czar, guest columnist
Kevin A. Sabet says he'll have an opportunity to make a significant
mark on drug policy and enforcement [Seattle Times, USA] |
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UNAIDS
and Global Fund call upon CND to support harm reduction |
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Last week, both UNAIDS and the Global Fund
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria lent their voices to
those calling upon the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)
to strongly support harm reduction in the forthcoming Political
Declaration on drugs currently being negotiated in Vienna [HR2,
IHRA] |
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Drug
dependence - part one |
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There's no doubt that dependence on any drug
can devastate people's lives - and Australia has one of the highest
rates of illicit drug use in the world, in fact we are leaders
in both cannabis and amphetamine use [ABC, Australia] |
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This
day in history -Commission on Narcotic Drugs established |
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Sixty years ago today, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC),
a main organ of the United Nations, established the Commission
on Narcotic Drugs (CND) as the central policy-making body of
the United Nations on drug issues [UNODC] |
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