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New
resources to support drug users into employment |
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The Department of Health have allocated £9m
of new money (over the course of 2008/9 to 2010/11) to enable
new Jobcentre Plus drugs coordinators to be based in every Jobcentre
Plus District in England [NTA, UK] |
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National
and regional fora |
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In 2008 DrugScope hosted a number of forums
across the English regions and in Wales. To build upon the success
of these events, in 2009 DrugScope will be hosting two forums
in each area throughout the upcoming year [DrugScope, UK] |
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Choice
of alcohol therapy matters little as long as it makes sense
and creates structure out of confusion |
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After combining results from studies comparing
talking therapies for alcohol problems, this ingenious analysis
finds any structured approach grounded in an explicit model as
good as any other. Researchers have, it's argued, been looking
in the wrong direction for therapy's active ingredients [Drug
and Alcohol Findings, UK] |
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UK
project enables at-risk children of (former) drug using parents
to safely live at home |
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Based in Middlesbrough and winners of the
Drug Team of the Year award in 2008, Families First's intensive
short-term support meant that children of problem drug users
on the verge of being removed from the family were safely able
to stay with their parents or other relatives [Drug and Alcohol
Findings, UK] |
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Cocaine-Induced
Chest Pain and [beta]-Blockade: An Inner City Experience |
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Preexisting use of [beta]-blockers seems to
render a higher risk of myocardial injury in patients presenting
with cocaine-related chest pain [American Journal of Therapeutics] |
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Cook's
veto not supported by committee that created the drug war,
Juarez solidarity resolution |
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The city’s Committee on Border Relations
refused to give Mayor John Cook the support he requested Tuesday
for vetoing a resolution the council had approved with an amendment
calling for a debate on drug legalization [Newspapertree, USA] |
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Veto
for resolution seeking to legalize drugs |
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Concerns about the bloody drug war being fought
just across the Mexican border led to a short-lived resolution
Tuesday asking the federal government to consider legalizing
drugs [Chron, USA] |
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Sanjay
Gupta: What the Next Surgeon General Doesn't Know About Pot |
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The next surgeon general needs to stop putting
politics before science. Gupta may not be ready for that [AlterNet,
USA] |
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New
Report on Cocaine Smuggling |
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The counterdrug community estimates that between
545 and 707 metric tons of cocaine departed South America toward
the United States in 2007. 9-page PDF [ONDCP, USA] |
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Of
Substance |
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Of Substance covers the latest Australian news
and research on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. January edition
[Of Substance, Australia] |
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