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Subscribers
to our daily and weekly bulletins has now reached 7,500 |
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To paraphrase a well known song ... "They
take what they need and leave the rest but they will never have
missed the very best" [Jim
Young, Editor] |
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Daily
Dose sponsorship - an attractive "New DDeal" |
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Wired In, via our charity Wired International
Ltd., is looking for financial sponsorship to help us maintain
and further develop Daily Dose during the period April 1st 2009
to March 31st 2010. Please click on the headline to read more
about our new sponsorship deal and click here to
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of sponsors and enhance their profile in the field. Please remember,
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Getting
to grips with substance misuse among young people |
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This report summarises the data for 2007/08,
together with information about the different types of interventions
and the context in which these young people misuse substances.
32-page PDF [NTA, UK] |
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Chasing
the chemical demons |
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Toxicologist Dr John Ramsey warns authorities
are struggling to deal with the growing problem of new "herbal
highs" - and says simply banning them is not the answer
[BBC, UK] |
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The
children who live with drugs |
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BBC Scotland's home affairs correspondent Reevel
Alderson reports on the children who are living with drugs [BBC,
UK] |
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Tackling
perception Dundee is awash with heroin |
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The prevalence of heroin in Dundee is of growing
concern to residents and the authorities. While drug workers
and frontline officers are keen to say that the problem is no
worse than any other city in Scotland, figures indicate there
is an issue [The Herald, Scotland, UK] |
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A
week's worth of alcohol units? That'll be £3.39 |
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Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has
pledged to tackle the country's boozing culture. The problem,
she says, is "pocket-money prices" that mean a man
can currently drink his weekly maximum alcohol intake for less
than £3.50. But is that really possible? [Guardian, UK] |
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Alcohol-Branded
Apparel Linked to Adolescent Drinking |
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All those T-shirts, hats and other items promoting
alcoholic beverages that young people wear may be more than just
a fashion statement [MedlinePlus] |
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Alcohol
on TV 'prompts drinking' |
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People are more likely to turn to alcohol while
watching TV if they see drinking being portrayed in films or
adverts, a study suggests [BBC, UK] |
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Two
drinks a day raises pancreatic cancer risk |
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Just two alcoholic drinks a day can increase
the risk of pancreatic cancer, a study has shown [The Scotsman,
UK] |
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Desperate
for a roof over their heads |
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As funding runs out, the search is on for a
place to house 500 people living in Vancouver's homeless shelters
[Globe and Mail, Canada] |
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Talk
to frank - sight impaired access problems |
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As has been noted in the previous two blog
entries there are some serious site access problems with the
Talk to Frank website for anyone with a less than top notch computer.
So I thought it might be fun to see how good the site is for
sight impaired reader [UKCIA] |
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Double
price of alcohol, say experts |
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Netherlands has been wrestling the problem
of teenage drinking in recent years [Dutch News] |
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Directory
of courses and training programmes on drug misuse in Ireland
2009 |
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This Directory contains information about courses
and training programmes on drug misuse for individuals and agencies
interested in developing their knowledge, skills and capacity
in this field. 165-page PDF [National Documentation Centre on
Drug Use, Ireland] |
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Sober
Bulldog website |
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Join our Community! Register now, fast and
free. Become a part of our online recovery community [Sober Bulldog,
USA] |
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Recovering
addicts tell stories in song |
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Researcher Colleen Dell facilitated a process
for aboriginal women to share their stories of addiction [Star
Phoenix, Canada] |
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Regulation
would take it out of criminals' control |
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What if California could raise hundreds of
millions of dollars in new revenue to preserve vital state services
without any tax increase? And what if at the same time, we could,
without any new expense, help protect our endangered wilderness
areas while making it harder for our kids to get drugs? - Tom
Ammiano is an Assembly member from San Francisco [SFGate, USA] |
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Cancer
and Women Who Drink: A Flawed Study? |
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As Raloff sensibly concludes, “Let’s
not scare people with incomplete data. There will be plenty of
time to hammer home a call for temperance if and when stronger
data emerge.” [Addiction Inbox, USA] |
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Opioid
Antagonists, Naloxone & Naltrexone — Aids for Pain
Management |
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A growing body of evidence suggests potential
benefits of opioid antagonists — particularly low- or ultralow
doses of naloxone and naltrexone — for enhancing the pain
relieving efficacy of opioid analgesics, such as morphine and
others. 16-page PDF [Pain Treatment Topics, USA] |
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Pew
Center: 1 in 31 Americans Are in Prison, Jail, Probation or
Parole |
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The drug war does not seem to come in for much
critical analysis in this report, despite the fact that the authors
note that the largest growth in Americans under correctional
supervision is in people on probation or parole and that more
than half of all probationers are on probation for property or
drug crime [Drug Law Blog] |
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IHRD
Launch Two New Resources |
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The first is a book entitled At What Cost?:
HIV and Human Rights Consequences of the Global War on Drugs
- The second resource is a guidebook entitled Human Rights Documentation
and Advocacy: A Guide for Organizations of People Who Use Drugs
[IHRA] |
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Number
of drug addicts in Russia reaches 2.5 million |
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Up to 2.5 million Russians including 140,000
minors are addicted to illegal drugs, the head of the Federal
Drug Control Service said on Tuesday [Novosti, Russia] |
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UN
warned over painkiller use |
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Tens of millions of people around the world are suffering unnecessary
pain because many countries are too focused on narcotics control
measures to provide drugs including morphine for treatment, human
rights advocates claimed yesterday [Financial Times, UK] |
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Cocaine
cartels corrupt politics of Guinea-Bissau |
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Of all the countries lining West Africa's Atlantic coast, none
has been so thoroughly penetrated and corrupted by Latin American
drug cartels as Guinea-Bissau, which has been thrown once again
into political chaos following the serial assassinations of its
president and the head of its joint chiefs of staff [SMH, Australia] |
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