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Drug Specifics
- Marijuana as Medicine ?
- Methadone or Not ?
- Reliance on methadone a dangerous game for both users and the Government
- California Medical Association Not So Medical Says Drug Policy Experts
- Methadone is linked to one in three drug deaths
- Marijuana and Youth – Experiences From a Practising Physician
- New habits for old
- Radio 4 Any Questions – Drug Police Debate
- Free Drugs or Drug Free?
- Police warning over ‘cheese’ – lethal combination of heroin and cold medicine behind 20 deaths
- Pot Laced with Methamphetamine
- Methadone for drug addicts costs the taxpayer £105m in four years
- Dangers of Mephedrone
- Legal Stimulant Mephedrone Gains Popularity as Club Drug in U.K.
- Treatments for Alcoholism
- Cannabis back into category B
- NHS offering alcoholics ‘potentially lethal’ treatment, say campaigners
- The real danger of cannabis
- Marijuana potency increases 20-30%
- Ministry of Health Warns of Strychnine Found in Dutch Ecstasy
- Ecstasy-Viagra Mix Alarms Doctors Combo Can Affect Heart, Anatomy
- Bush Official Says Medical Marijuana a ‘Trojan Horse’
- Education Campaign Aims to Reverse Trends in Teen ‘Meth’ and Ecstasy Use
- Smoking safety scare sparks SWT ban
- Current Drug testing in Britain
- 2003 Report by Florida Medical Examiners Commission on Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons
- Ecstasy
- Pathology of deaths associated with “ecstasy” and “eve” misuse
- Drug use and violent crime among adolescents
- Neurochemical Correlates of Cocaine-Seeking Behaviour
- Gateway Theory
- Drugs and Crime
- Uncle Sam’s Example
- The Swedish addiction epidemic in global perspective – ABSTRACT
- Country Reports:
- £2.5m spent to treat drug addicts – with heroin
- Key advisers attack new drugs policy
- Trial for drug overdose treatment
- Syringe City in Australia
- Critique of FRANK
- Expert voices concern on use of methadone
- Despite two decades of needle exchange
- Ten-year-olds ‘getting hooked on petrol’
- International Conference Lithuania
- Harm Reduction in Practice
- Is Cannabis A Gateway Drug? – It Can Be!
- Drug Use: Life at the Sharp End
- Police say marijuana a factor in crash that killed Liberty student
- Marijuana grow-ops creating headaches
- Teenage drug test projects start
- Drugs: Treatment Works
- UK Cannabis legalisation lobby founders in deep water?
Education Sector
- Revealed: Government helpline tells children ‘cannabis is safer than alcohol’
- British Red Cross says teach children alcohol first aid
- Canada to look at drug policies
- More schools to test students for drug use
- 40 per cent of teenagers know someone hurt by cannabis
- Legalizer school teaching DEA agents
- US FL: OPED: Random Drug Tests Keep Schools, Children Safer
- Should students be randomly tested for drugs?
- No crack pipes
- WRHA’s Approach to Addiction a Mockery
- Show Me How Free Crack Kits Help Addicts
- Shooting Up 101; Pamphlet Teaches You How to Do It Properly
- Chicago Catholic School to Conduct Drug Tests
- Drug-sniffing canine in school
- HIV and Hepatitis C Have Reached ‘Near Saturation’ Among Injecting Drug Users
- The relationship between marijuana initiation and dropping out of high school
- UK Experiencing High Level Of Child Drug Use
- Teen anti drugs make impact
- Preventive education for adolescents or children
- SMART Leaders
- Model Programs for High-Risk Youth
- Parents’ concerns, attitudes, and needs
- Effects of a Community-Based Prevention Programme on Decreasing Drug Use in High-Risk Adolescents
- Back to School Teen Survey – USA
- A Letter To George Soros
Effects of Drugs
- What Mr. Barnes failed to mention
- The grim reality of 574 addicts’ wasted lives
- Mexico looks to legalisation as drug war murders hit 28,000
- Drug seizures almost treble at city prison
- Radio 4 Any Questions – Drug Police Debate
- Commentary & Analysis
- New local alcohol profiles show 65% increase in hospital admissions over five years
- Self-Esteem and Trait Anxiety in Relation to Drug Misuse in Kuwait
- More than 100 young Australians died after taking the recreational drug ecstasy
- Addiction – The Disease Concept
- The Facts V The Propaganda
- The real danger of cannabis
- How `A Little’ Dope Can Hurt
- A weed by any other name smells the same
- Rx in addiction battle may be found in past drugs used for other ailments tested
- Why They Call It ‘Dope’: Pot Really Can Blow Your Mind
- For many, meth equals death
- Adolescent Self-Reported Behaviors and Their Association with Marijuana Use
- Figures show massive leap in ‘cannabis casualties’
- Scotland ‘s Drug Epidemic
- Danger of Discarded Needles
- Marijuana: a gateway drug
- Marijuana potency increases 20-30%
- Teenager Took Cannabis Before Rail Line Death
- Ministry of Health Warns of Strychnine Found in Dutch Ecstasy
- Ecstasy-Viagra Mix Alarms Doctors Combo Can Affect Heart, Anatomy
- Maryland Addresses Rise in Methadone Overdoses
- Club drug linked to several deaths is rising in popularity
- Britain Sees Rise in Marijuana Problems
- Real Cost Of Cannabis
- Students who smoke marijuana likely to see lower math scores
- Passive smoking increases risk of CHD
- Millions exposed to secondhand smoke at work
- Ozzy Says He Now Believes Pot Leads To Other Addictions
- Two Genes May Fuel Cocaine Addiction
- Does Marijuana Withdrawal Syndrome Exist?
- 2003 Report by Florida Medical Examiners Commission on Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons
- Wired for Addiction
- Clove cigarettes
- Psychological Constructs
- Radio 4 Programme on Cannabis and Mental health
- Abuse of cannabis puts 500 a week in hospital
Legal Sector
- Prisons keeping inmates dependent on drugs, says new report
- Drug advisers told no chance of decriminalising possession laws
- Abolist NTA to Cut Drug Addiction
- Joint Statement in Opposition to the Vienna Declaration Released July 20, 2010
- Mexico looks to legalisation as drug war murders hit 28,000
- NADCP and Drug Court Leaders Respond to Criticisms With the Facts
- Drug seizures almost treble at city prison
- Letter – Portugal is hardly a resounding success
- Radio 4 Any Questions – Drug Police Debate
- Police chiefs issue warning over PMMA drug
- Drug Legalisation in USA?
- Success in the USA in Reducing Drugs Use
- Why Cannabis Must be Reclassified
- Drugs agency in plea to ‘weed out’ cannabis farms
- Legalise drugs and a worldwide epidemic of addiction will follow
- HSE statement on new head shop drug “WHACK”
- Why I No Longer Support Decriminalizing Marijuana
- Drug addicts get cold turkey compensation
- Shock rise in drug crime as offences soar by 21 per cent
- Dealers of class-A drugs to be freed sooner
- 1 In 25 Adults Aged 15-64 Years Worldwide Using Cannabis, Despite Adverse Health Effects
- Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocketing in USA
- Drugs money and the banking crisis
- We Need a Campaign of Information
- From high seas to High Street
- Use of Class A drugs hits 12-year high, fuelled by one million cocaine users
- Beware false analogies to the drug war – actually, Prohibition Was a Success
- The UKDPC’s “smart enforcement” proposals amount to legalisation by the back door
- Drugs: A Hard or Soft Approach?
- Should Police Have the Power to Test Suspects For Drugs?
- Tackling points against medicalization of marijuana
- Are Drug Courts Effective ?
- Another try at legalizing marijuana
- ‘Just Say No’ to drug legalization of any variety
- Don’t Legalize Drugs
- South London Police Drop Lax Approach To Marijuana.
- Police Magazine February 2003
- The downgrading of cannabis was blamed for a rise in Scots children arrested for drugs offences
- Drug Courts Successful Over Time
- Legal change blamed for higher cannabis use
- Big Tobacco in the dock as America prepares for biggest ever law suit
- Crime Doesn’t Pay — or Does It?
- Drugs in Scottish prisons
- Cocaine cautions soar after police tread softly-softly
- Officials Say Drug Raids Found Clubs Were a Front
- Drug Decriminalization In Holland Has Increased Crime and Addiction
- US Supreme court rules against So-called medical marijuana
- Scots police chiefs force Home Secretary to ditch new drug laws
- Marijuana potency increases 20-30%
- Major Crackdown On Internet Drug Traffickers
- Lewis Alone in Funding Pot-Law Project
- Amsterdam’s Alcohol-Selling Coffee Shops To Lose Cannabis Privileges.
- 46% of English arrestees tested positive for pot
- Weed is hard drug
- Maine House Gives Final Approval to Smoke free Bars House Votes 95-47 to Become 5th Smoke free State
- Ozzy Says He Now Believes Pot Leads To Other Addictions
- Drugs Spark Gang Violence in Vancouver
- Jobs Don’t Prevent New Drug Offenses After Prison
- Drug prevention outside and inside prison walls
- Drug use and violent crime among adolescents
- Doomed to sucess cannabis downgraded in Britain
- Drug Courts Help Addicted Individuals
Political Sector
- Failure of Portugal’s drug legalisation experiment
- Drug advisers told no chance of decriminalising possession laws
- Apparent Success of Drug Treatment Aimed at Heroin is Misleading
- Experts Call New Strategies on AIDS Prevention Ineffective!
- Can These Leopards Change Their Spots?
- Planning Commission to consider ban on medical marijuana dispensaries
- Marijuana and Youth – Experiences From a Practising Physician
- Radio 4 Any Questions – Drug Police Debate
- Harm Reduction: More than just side effects!
- DODGY DOSSIER 3: NATIONAL TREATMENT AGENCY FIGURES-
- UK Cannabis legalisation lobby founders in deep water?
- Why Cannabis Must be Reclassified
- ”Decriminalisation the wrong approach”
- Cameron to push ahead with ‘cold turkey’ drug policy
- HSE statement on new head shop drug “WHACK”
- Reclassification of cannabis ‘fuels youth crime wave’
- Cannabis experts lash out at ministers for ignoring advice
- Shock rise in drug crime as offences soar by 21 per cent
- Marijuana In The UK And The Advisory Council On The Misuse Of Drugs
- No Reason to be Sanguine About Teenage Drug Use
- THE Scottish Government is to spend £4.5million over three years on needles and other drug equipment to give to addicts.
- A clear danger from cannabis
- British drinking habits too costly, report says
- 1 In 25 Adults Aged 15-64 Years Worldwide Using Cannabis, Despite Adverse Health Effects
- A SICKNESS AT THE HEART OF EUROPE
- David Nutt’s sacking……
- Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocketing in USA
- CNN Praises UK Government for Giving Drugs to Junkies
- Cannabis back into category B
- Middlegate Lodge is fighting closure for lack of funds
- 40 per cent of teenagers know someone hurt by cannabis
- Letter from Peter O’Loughlin regarding the NTA Report
- Drug service fails half its users
- Drugs money and the banking crisis
- Theory meets reality meets bureaucracy
- We Need a Campaign of Information
- Can the Government stay in denial any longer? by Kathy Gyngell
- Revealed: Government helpline tells children ‘cannabis is safer than alcohol’
- Use of Class A drugs hits 12-year high, fuelled by one million cocaine users
- Beware false analogies to the drug war – actually, Prohibition Was a Success
- The price of legalizing pot is too high
- Gov spend £10billion on its drugs policy – no change
- Drugs: A Hard or Soft Approach?
- Dangerous Mistake to Downgrade Cannabis, Warns MP
- We are enabling addicts to live a life worse than death
- A heady atmosphere pervades the House
- Mr Blunkett’s U-turn
- MPs asked to rethink cannabis danger
- The Updated Government Drug Strategy
- Re-classify cannabis upwards
- UK drugs professionals give Blunkett good cause to think again
- Blunkett warned of dangers of cannabis.
- UN condemns UK cannabis laws
- Drug lobby – checkmate!
- Congressional Subcommittee Questions the Scientific Validity of “Harm Reduction”
- Drug Policy Reform Groups Get Richer, Savvier
- The Return of George Soros
- Britain’s Addictive Drug Policy
- European Union Group Urges Censorship of Pro-Cannabis Web Sites
- We misled public over cannabis, Clarke says
- Cannibis Causes Confusion
- Ministers ‘failed to warn public of cannabis risks’
- The Soros Factor
- Ethics Group Reacts to Upholding of Soros Insider Trading Conviction; Soros Misled Public During 2004 Campaign
- Cannabis pandemic blamed on soft UK drug policy
- No crack pipes
- Marijuana potency increases 20-30%
- SUCCESS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS DURING THE REAGAN YEARS.
- Bush Official Says Medical Marijuana a ‘Trojan Horse’
- Education Campaign Aims to Reverse Trends in Teen ‘Meth’ and Ecstasy Use
- Weed is hard drug
- Maine House Gives Final Approval to Smoke free Bars House Votes 95-47 to Become 5th Smoke free State
- 5 Million Deaths a Year Worldwide from Smoking Tobacco smoke is the world’s most lethal weapon of mass destruction.
- Millions exposed to secondhand smoke at work
- Call for heroin ‘shooting galleries’
- Drugs: A Hard or Soft Approach?
- The Government Might Be Right About Marijuana
- Current Drug testing in Britain
- Dear Home Secretary, you cannot ban everything you don’t like
- The Swedish addiction epidemic in global perspective – ABSTRACT
- Ronald Reagan To Go Down In History As The Champion of the War On Illicit Drugs
- UK Cannabis legalisation lobby founders in deep water?
Social Affairs
- Failure of Portugal’s drug legalisation experiment
- Methadone or Not ?
- Methadone: ‘Too many use it as part of their drugs routine’
- Radio 4 Any Questions – Drug Police Debate
- £60,000 cost of keeping an addict on drugs
- Revealed: Government helpline tells children ‘cannabis is safer than alcohol’
- DODGY DOSSIER 3: NATIONAL TREATMENT AGENCY FIGURES-
- Free Drugs or Drug Free?
- Police warning over ‘cheese’ – lethal combination of heroin and cold medicine behind 20 deaths
- British Red Cross says teach children alcohol first aid
- Impact of Parental Substance Misuse on Children’s Educational Attainment, A One Day Conference, Thursday 2nd December 2010, Glasgow
- Legalise drugs and a worldwide epidemic of addiction will follow
- Commentary & Analysis
- Cut drug abuse to reduce Erie’s poverty rate
- New local alcohol profiles show 65% increase in hospital admissions over five years
- Opinions toughen on cannabis users and illegal drugs
- Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2009: Public Attitudes to Drugs and Drug Use in Scotland
- Opinions toughen on cannabis users and illegal drugs
- Why I No Longer Support Decriminalizing Marijuana
- Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings May Reduce Depression Symptoms
- Opposition is not just ‘ideology’
- The Personal and Financial costs of INSITE in Vancouver, Canada
- L.A. Medical-Pot Shops Peddle to LAUSD Pupils
- British Crime Survey
- The genetics of addiction
- Video Case Studies: Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much
- Unemployment ‘drives youngsters to drugs’
- British drinking habits too costly, report says
- 1 In 25 Adults Aged 15-64 Years Worldwide Using Cannabis, Despite Adverse Health Effects
- Your Sewer on Drugs
- Drug Use Down in USA
- Focus: My battle with liberal Britain
- Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocketing in USA
- CNN Praises UK Government for Giving Drugs to Junkies
- Injecting Room Fails
- Middlegate Lodge is fighting closure for lack of funds
- 40 per cent of teenagers know someone hurt by cannabis
- Drug service fails half its users
- Questions the NTA Must Answer
- Theory meets reality meets bureaucracy
- We Need a Campaign of Information
- From high seas to High Street
- The Facts V The Propaganda
- What if nice people take drugs?
- Legalizer school teaching DEA agents
- Revealed: Government helpline tells children ‘cannabis is safer than alcohol’
- Methadone
- 11,000 children addicted to drink and drugs get help
- NDPA Resolutions
- Beware false analogies to the drug war – actually, Prohibition Was a Success
- Abandon the war on drugs, but start a war on addiction
- NHS offering alcoholics ‘potentially lethal’ treatment, say campaigners
- The UKDPC’s “smart enforcement” proposals amount to legalisation by the back door
- Archive for the ‘Alcohol Addiction’ Category
- Residential Rehabs Facing Collapse
- What does 420 mean to you?
- THE Professional Defection of Marsha Rosenbaum
- The Tip of the Iceberg
- How `A Little’ Dope Can Hurt
- A weed by any other name smells the same
- Rx in addiction battle may be found in past drugs used for other ailments tested
- Why They Call It ‘Dope’: Pot Really Can Blow Your Mind
- For many, meth equals death
- UN Asks the Holy See to Co-operate
- Californian Cities Concerned About Marijuana Shops
- Dutch government’s medical marijuana program elbowed out by common coffee shops
- Taxpayers In Australia Fund Drug-taking tips
- Prevention Works !!!!
- Gone to pot
- Forget your studies, now universities offer a ‘life experience’ shortcut
- High Times
- School gives out nicotine patches
- Mental Wards ‘Packed With Cannabis Victims’
- Cannabis – a cause for Concern ?
- Dutch Drug Culture Under Attack
- Alert after children scratched by needles; Police in ‘don’t touch’ warning
- Cannabinoid Compounds Are Not Medical Marijuana
- Adolescents Use of Cannabis Causes Concern
- Doctors attack government drug strategy for failures on drinking and smoking
- Drug deaths increase, serious crime increases in parts of USA
- Drugs workers’ cannabis fears
- Two editorials from The Trentonian newspaper adding weight to the case against needle exchange programmes……..
- The MPP pay State Fees
- Trotsky’s Great-Granddaughter Says No to Pot
- Promoting Marijuana to Children
- How to deal with the cannabis issue
- Fighting the tide
- No crack pipes
- WRHA’s Approach to Addiction a Mockery
- Real Cost Of Cannabis
- Neighborhood revitalization
- Smoking portrayed as ‘sexy’ in Titanic
- Marijuana: a gateway drug
- U.K. Professor Proposes Paying Addicts Not to Have Children
- Teenager Took Cannabis Before Rail Line Death
- Today
- Digital Dealers
- Ministry of Health Warns of Strychnine Found in Dutch Ecstasy
- Ecstasy-Viagra Mix Alarms Doctors Combo Can Affect Heart, Anatomy
- New Test Detects ‘Date-Rape’ Drug Rohypnol in drinks
- Smoking in movies is at its highest since ‘60s
- Product placement Study: Tobacco giants wooed Hollywood
- Club drug linked to several deaths is rising in popularity
- Britain Sees Rise in Marijuana Problems
- Coors Criticized for Movie Tie-Ins Aimed at Teens
- Drug-sniffing canine in school
- Does use of illicit drugs affect attitude toward legalization?
- Real Cost Of Cannabis
- Education Campaign Aims to Reverse Trends in Teen ‘Meth’ and Ecstasy Use
- Body Shop’s hemp line
- 5 Million Deaths a Year Worldwide from Smoking Tobacco smoke is the world’s most lethal weapon of mass destruction.
- Hemp food products
- Smoking safety scare sparks SWT ban
- Millions exposed to secondhand smoke at work
- Call for heroin ‘shooting galleries’
- Neighborhood revitalization
- Dear Home Secretary, you cannot ban everything you don’t like
- SMART Leaders
- Model Programs for High-Risk Youth
- Smoking fails screen test
- Drug Testing USA
- Are you a user?
- Opiates for the Masses