Australia
- Will the Real Drug Policy ‘Emphasis’ Please Stand Up!
- Quit drinking to cut cancer risk
- Supervised drinking at home can lead to alcohol problems as a teenager
- Shocking Impact of Booze on Babies
- Roadside Drug-testing in Victoria, Australia.
- News media turns young people off illicit drugs
- Cannabis health woes for older users
- Brain dysfunction blamed for drug fix
- Injecting room abuse
- Methadone – Last Not First
- HEROIN is set for comeback on Sydney streets
- Parents encourage youngsters to drink, finds Oz study
- Smoking, drinking and illicit drugs are costing the Australian economy $56 billion a year.
- Worrying side effects attached to mephedrone
- A wave of heroin has hit Victoria, causing the highest statewide death toll by the devastating drug in nearly a decade.
- More than 100 young Australians died after taking the recreational drug ecstasy
- Cannabis takes toll on Aborigines
- Injecting Room Fails
- Tests Driving Drug-Affected Motorists Off the Road
- Call for Brumby to act on big booze stores
- Perpetuating Drug Use – Australia
- Australians’ Support For Regular Use of Cannabis Dropped
- Cannabis use in remote Indigenous communities in Australia: endemic yet neglected
- Drug Crime Costs, Australia
- Pushers turn to mail system to traffick their drugs
- Alarming Increase In Drug-affected Newborns
- Teens in grip of the grog
- Saving Dope Addled Minds.
- Hospitals feel strain of drunks who fight
- Cracking down on Cannabis
- Evidence grows for change in cannabis laws
- The Australian Rising Public Concern on Cannabis
- Letter to The Editor
- Cannabis not harmless as supposed
- Australia first cannabis clinic
- Almost a quarter of West Australians have used drugs
- Smokers taking 70 minutes a day off work for smokes
- Child resistant lighters sought
- Australia
- International Trends in Drug Abuse
- Top psych lashes cannabis strategy
Canada
- HIV rates much higher among daily needle exchange users
- Cannabis and Road Safety in Canada: Evidence on the Prevalence of
- Ottawa to step up fight against smoking, drugs
- Canadian kids smoke more pot than cigarettes: report
- OTTAWA – PM Stephen Harper set to announce a $64-million anti-drug strategy
- Needle exchange an unmitigated disaster
- Vancouver – City to clean up streets within four months
- Canada to look at drug policies
- Federal anti-drug campaign will educate youth on ‘harms of illicit drug use’
- Plea deal for Canada’s “Prince of Pot” falls apart
- Opposition is not just ‘ideology’
- The Personal and Financial costs of INSITE in Vancouver, Canada
- Time To Get Tough With Skid Road Misfits
- Diacetylmorphine versus Methadone for the Treatment of Opioid Addiction
- Police chief gets credit for treatment centre
- New law puts alcohol and drugs on an equal footing
- Drivers on drugs to face body-fluid tests
- New drug prevention program launched by AADAC and RCMP
- Feds donate $1 million towards drug use prevention program
- Canadian Roadside Survey on Alcohol and Drug Use
- Vancouver Poised to Launch Free Heroin Trial
- Harm Reduction Strategies Equal Dantes Inferno
- Marijuana Becomes Top Crop in Canada
- 5 Million Deaths a Year Worldwide from Smoking Tobacco smoke is the world’s most lethal weapon of mass destruction.
- Hemp food products
- HCV & HIV Common in Young Canadian Drug Users
- Many epilepsy and multiple sclerosis patients self-medicate with marijuana
- International Trends in Drug Abuse
Europe
- Mephedrone users told they are playing Russian roulette
- Failure of Portuguese Drugs Experiment
- The Factual Picture of Portuguese Drug Policy
- Dutch marijuana advocates face off with Cabinet
- Drug developed to make people drink less alcohol
- Failure of Portugal’s drug legalisation experiment
- Joint Statement in Opposition to the Vienna Declaration Released July 20, 2010
- Letter – Portugal is hardly a resounding success
- Radio 4 Any Questions – Drug Police Debate
- Marijuana Under the Guise of Medicine Contributes to the Rise in Marijuana Use
- Increase in HIV infections in Greece
- Glutamate dehydrogenase as a marker of alcohol dependence.
- Hungary Needs A New Drug Strategy
- Doctors Warn of Rise in Substance Abuse
- 33% of Ex-prisoners’ Drug Deaths Occur Within Week of Release
- Dutch law could unleash cocaine flood in Britain
- Amsterdam bans smoking of marijuana in some public places
- Study: Steroid Use May Fuel Crime
- Alcoholics facing long-term brain damage
- Translating effective web-based self-help for problem drinking into the real world.
- Brief skills training is effective to curb college drinking
- Dutch plan crackdown on cannabis cultivation
- THC Content of Cannabis in Netherlands.
- No to Dail coke tests: minister
- Dutch to ban magic mushrooms
- Methadone link as drug deaths soar
- Let’s not go soft on hard drugs
- Czech pot smokers exhale with relief over new drug law
- Kids who drink with parents ‘develop alcohol problems’
- Teens Who Drink With Parents May Still Develop Alcohol Problems
- Cocaine in half of all schools in Rotterdam
- Scotsman exclusive: Growth industry Scots don’t need
- Dutch plan to shift coffeeshops worries neighbors
- Decriminalization of drugs in Portugal – The real facts!
- Highest in Europe – one in ten Scots used cannabis last year
- Alcohol-related deaths
- Ban on magic mushrooms confirmed
- Drink and drug abuse costs Scotland £5billion every year
- Isles drink abuse too widespread to target one group
- French curb on alcohol sales as teenagers discover le binge drinking
- Marijuana exports generate €2bn
- Germany Bans Drug “Spice”
- France to crack down on under-age binge drinking
- Dose of reality fuels new initiatives to help addicts
- Teenagers’ higher cannabis use linked to more nights out
- No relaxation on cannabis laws in New Zealand
- Double price of alcohol, say experts
- Concerns over methadone use.
- Recovery Cafe Culture
- More drug users’ babies in care
- The children who live with drugs
- Ireland: Alcohol recognised as ‘gateway drug’
- DRUG POLICY: Sweden’s success in combating drug use
- Schoolchildren critical of drugs education, says report
- Poor results for addicts from €140m drugs scheme
- Dutch cannabis cafes open to members only
- The Netherlands reviews its tolerant approach to drug policy
- Milan, Italy Enacting Ordinance to Curb Underage Drinking
- Germany Battles Youth Drinking Scourge
- UK declared the cocaine capital of Europe
- Drink and drug abuse costs Scotland £5billion every year
- Scotland’s methadone bill hits £17million
- Scotland’s methadone programme causes concern
- The Scottish Government’s definition
- International Narcotics Control Board Report
- Raid strips party island of ecstasy
- Dutch Politicians Seek Marijuana Rules
- Aboard the Mississippi Boat
- Cocaine and ecstasy use rife in EU
- Cannabis lobby rises from the ashes
- Press release on Swiss drug policy
- Chief of Police in Arnhem,Holland
- Swiss kids satisfy taste for booze and drugs
- Sweden Will Maintain, Develop And Enforce Its Restrictive Drug Policy
- Cannabis link to psychosis
- Amsterdam’s Alcohol-Selling Coffee Shops To Lose Cannabis Privileges.
- 46% of English arrestees tested positive for pot
- Weed is hard drug
- 5 Million Deaths a Year Worldwide from Smoking Tobacco smoke is the world’s most lethal weapon of mass destruction.
- Addicts assisting addicts
- Cannabis doubles the risk of schizophrenia and other psyciatric conditions
- Cannabis more toxic than cigarettes: study
- Drugs Spark Gang Violence in Vancouver
- Drugs: A Hard or Soft Approach?
- A New Drug Threat: Salvia – by Mike Bush
- What influences young people to take drugs?
- Sweden – Swedish Drug Policy in General
- Italy
- Spain
- Italy approves new marijuana law
- Methadone to be dumped in Scotland as treatment for heroin addiction
New Zealand
- Marijuana Use Tied to Cancer Rates Among Maoris
- Cannabis linked to lung cancer risk
- New Zealand: Smoking Cannabis Is Bad For Your Gums, Says Study
- Drugs drive crime: New Zealand
- Research
- Prevalence and correlates of cannabis use and dependence in young New Zealanders
- Child resistant lighters sought
Others
- Mexico Looks to Legalisation as Drug War Murders Hit 28,000
- Hawaii kills medical marijuana dispensary measure
- New drug users less likely to share needles, have HIV, in Russian study
- The Jornal da Tarde exposes new formulas for the drug traffickers
- Declaration of the World Mayor’s Confidence on Drugs
- Wallabies damaging crops in Tasmania poppy fields after getting high
- Russia Tough On ‘Weed’ Ware
- 96% Of Sweden Population Supports Restrictive Drug Policy
- Ministry of Health Warns of Strychnine Found in Dutch Ecstasy
- Italy toughens drug laws
- Drugs Spark Gang Violence in Vancouver
- Cigarettes Contribute to Early Cardiac Deaths Worldwide
- A New Drug Threat: Salvia – by Mike Bush
- At the Cinema – Smoking in cinemas increasing, in contrast to real smoking rates
- The Swedish addiction epidemic in global perspective – ABSTRACT
- Japan
- International Trends in Drug Abuse
- News from abroad and the armed forces
USA
- ‘For medicinal purposes’
- A Drug Policy for the 21st Century
- Deaths from Prescription Drugs – USA
- Adaptive programming improves outcomes in drug court: an experimental trial.
- Pat Robertson is wrong about marijuana
- Marijuana Legislation’s Unintended Consequences
- Marijuana Impaired Driving: A serious safety problem
- California Medical Association Not So Medical Says Drug Policy Experts
- Experts Call New Strategies on AIDS Prevention Ineffective!
- Planning Commission to consider ban on medical marijuana dispensaries
- Marijuana and Youth – Experiences From a Practising Physician
- Genetic Risk Factors for both Marijuana and Alcohol Misuse Similar
- Study Finds Hospitalization Increases for Alcohol and Drug Overdoses
- Cannabis, synthetic cannabinoids, and psychosis risk: What the evidence says
- Brain Scans Show Danger of Meth Exposure During Pregnancy
- The so-called ‘Drug War’ in the USA has not been’lost’ !
- Drug Legalisation in USA?
- Success in the USA in Reducing Drugs Use
- Free Drugs or Drug Free?
- New Field Poll Shows California Voters Oppose Legalized Marijuana
- Families Protected by Healthcare Professionals Drug Prevention Outreach
- Driving under Influence of Marijuana a Growing Problem
- 14 Hawaii Religious Marijuana Advocates Indicted
- Consequences of Illicit Drug Use In America
- CESAR Study Finds 9 Warning Signs of Early Marijuana Use Among Maryland’s Public School Students
- School-Based Prevention Cuts Drug Use, Violence, NIDA Says
- CDC issues statement and recommendations regarding prescription drug misuse
- Drug overdose: Medical marijuana facing a backlash
- More Americans Admitted for Opiate, Marijuana Treatment, SAMHSA Reports
- The Involvement of Marijuana in California Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes 1998 -2008
- Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost-Benefit Analysis U.S.
- Monitoring the Future survey shows that while marijuana continues to be the most commonly
- Proposed “Safe-Injection” Site in San Francisco Ignores Proven Solutions to Treating Drug Addicts
- Obama is AWOL in the Drug Wars
- Why Marijuana Legalization Would Compromise Public Health and Public Safety
- Taxing Marijuana
- More good news on teen smoking in USA: Rates at or near record lows
- L.A. Medical-Pot Shops Peddle to LAUSD Pupils
- Seeing Through the Haze: The Impact of Drug Legalization in America
- Smoke and mirrors: Colorado teenagers and marijuana
- Drug Use Down in USA
- Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocketing in USA
- Small part of drug-related state spending goes to prevention
- More schools to test students for drug use
- No: California does not need any more stoners
- Texas Prevention Impact Index
- Meth Project targets youths
- What addiction really costs in the USA
- International Coalition For Drug Demand Reduction
- Turn On, Tune In, Light Up
- Costs of Substance Abuse
- Drug Court Prevents Overdoses in South Boston
- Drug Court Prevents Overdoses in South Boston
- Drug Use Skyrocketing In USA
- HIV and Hepatitis C Have Reached ‘Near Saturation’ Among Injecting Drug Users
- Parents Seriously Underestimate Availability and Use of Drugs Among Their Children
- Education Campaign Aims to Reverse Trends in Teen ‘Meth’ and Ecstasy Use
- Early Marijuana Use Called Pathway to Addiction
- Rat Study Conducted by University of Georgia Researchers Suggests That Cannabis Interferes With Sustained Attention
- Students who smoke marijuana likely to see lower math scores
- The relationship between marijuana initiation and dropping out of high school
- Study finds smoking marijuana can cause cancer
- Study links teen use of tobacco and pot
- 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.
- Teen anti drugs make impact
- Marijuana Misuse Increases Depression Risk
- THC Level Skyrockets
- Evidence Accumulates That Long-Term Marijuana Users Experience Withdrawal
- Preventive education for adolescents or children
- Neighborhood revitalization
- Ozzy Says He Now Believes Pot Leads To Other Addictions
- Religious Beliefs Linked to Decreased Drug Use
- Study shows MS patients further impaired by smoking Low-THC marijuana
- What Americans need to know about Marijuana
- Snippets from SAMHSA
- Report Shows Parents Unaware of Children’s Ecstasy Use
- The Government Might Be Right About Marijuana
- Anti-drug testing bill threatens students
- Drug Use in the USA
- Drug Courts Pay Off
- Drug Abuse Trends Minneapolis – St Paul
- College Students Discount Smoking Health Risks
- Cocaine May Compromise Immune System, Increase Risk of Infection
- Cigarettes Contribute to Early Cardiac Deaths Worldwide
- HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIOLOGY: HIV rates, risk factors among different IDU types determined
- A New Drug Threat: Salvia – by Mike Bush
- Does Marijuana Withdrawal Syndrome Exist?
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
- SMART Leaders
- Smoking Prevalence In U.S. Birth Cohorts: Influence of Gender and Education
- Smoking, pregnancy and poverty
- Prevention & Education
- Addiction – Desire to smoke may be inborn
- Tobacco companies supply film-makers products (‘Product Placement’)
- BAT knew tobacco was addictive
- Psychosocial and Pharmacological Explanations of Nicotine’s “Gateway Drug” Function
- Drugs and Crime
- Uncle Sam’s Example
- Drug Testing USA
- Back to School Teen Survey – USA
- Country Reports:
- Hunterdon High School 7-year student drug use data released