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Education Sector
- How to Implement a Model to Get Youth off Drugs and Out of Crime
- ‘Now I feel like a leader in a positive way’
- Does marijuana use have any effect on classroom studies?
- DfES Drug Education Doc. Consultation :
- Moralising… demoralising: the fight over personal and social education
- The relationship between marijuana initiation and dropping out of high school
- UK Experiencing High Level Of Child Drug Use
- Current Drug testing in Britain
- Parents and Drugs
- Effects of a Community-Based Prevention Programme on Decreasing Drug Use in High-Risk Adolescents
- Smoking fails screen test
- School programs targeting antisocial behavior also can boost test scores, grades
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Effects of Drugs
- Marijuana Smoking Is Associated With a Spectrum
- The Effects of Cannabis on Pulmonary Structure
- Adolescent Brain Development
- Injection drug use, low baseline CD4 counts continue to predict poorer HAART response after six years
- New H.I.V. Cases Drop but Rise in Young Gay Men
- “Addiction is a disease”
- Cannabis and Mental Illness ( Psychosis/schizophrenia )
- Shooting Up Infections among injecting drug users
- Why Do Drug Use Disorders Often Co-Occur With Other Mental Illnesses?
- Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
- A Tale of Two Scandals – Benzodiazepine and Hep C
- The harmful health effects of recreational ecstasy
- The Alcohol Flushing Response
- Insight Into The Way Nicotine Works In The Brain
- Clearing the Smoke on Cannabis
- A Review of the Research on the Risks and Harms Associated to the Use of Marijuana
- Regional Brain Abnormalities Associated
- Images of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
- Medicine not marijuana
- Is Cannabis Addictive?
- Cannabis — The Truth
- Dispelling the Marijuana Myth
- Meth Comes Out of the Closet
- The devastating consequences of marijuana use
- 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
- Cannabis and cancer
- Warning: Keep off the grass
- For many, meth equals death
- The effect of parental substance abuse on young people
- Cannabis not harmless as supposed
- Cannabis and risk of psychosis
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
- Twins Study Links Early Marijuana Use to Increased Risk of Abuse or Dependence
- Alcohol’s Toll On Fetuses: Even Worse Than Thought
- Alcohol related Brain Disease
- Alcohol and Drug Dependence Is Not a Mental Illness or Behavioral Disorder
- ‘Adolescent Self-Reported Behaviours and their Association with Cannabis Use’
- Rat Study Conducted by University of Georgia Researchers Suggests That Cannabis Interferes With Sustained Attention
- Smoking and drug abuse traits linked to genes
- Cannabis link to psychosis
- The relationship between marijuana initiation and dropping out of high school
- THC Level Skyrockets
- Women ‘at double the risk’ of lung cancer
- Evidence Accumulates That Long-Term Marijuana Users Experience Withdrawal
- Cannabinoid has no impact on spasticity associated with MS
- Study shows MS patients further impaired by smoking Low-THC marijuana
- What Americans need to know about Marijuana
- Two Genes May Fuel Cocaine Addiction
- Drugs Spark Gang Violence in Vancouver
- HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIOLOGY: HIV rates, risk factors among different IDU types determined
- Many epilepsy and multiple sclerosis patients self-medicate with marijuana
- A New Drug Threat: Salvia – by Mike Bush
- Marijuana Compounds May Act Without Causing a High
- Residential Student Assistance Program
- Wired for Addiction
- Ecstasy
- Positron emission tomographic evidence of toxic effect of MDMA (“Ecstasy”) on brain serotonin neurons in human beings.
- Pathology of deaths associated with “ecstasy” and “eve” misuse
- Smoking And Carcinoma Of The Female Reproductive System In The Pelvis
- Are you a user?
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Harm Reduction including HIV
- Shooting Up
- GPs, the NTA and the Numbers Game
- “Addiction Is a Disease”
- Gov spend £10billion on its drugs policy – no change
- Alcohol and young people
- US FL: OPED: Random Drug Tests Keep Schools, Children Safer
- Lessons Learned from HIV Prevention Initiatives: Implications for Community Anti-Drug Coalitions
- World Conference on Drugs
- ISAAC Congress 1999
- Needle programmes in Norway not successful
- Vilnius, Lithuania – Conference – May 2005
- Addicts assisting addicts
- Drug-resistant HIV often spread among drug users
- HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIOLOGY: HIV rates, risk factors among different IDU types determined
- Advocates of needle exchange claim such programs protect injection drug addicts from HIV infection – but new study refutes this.
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Intervention (including testing)
- Legally High – Internet Drugs
- The Guide to Rehab – What Really Works
- Naltrexone implants after in-patient treatment for opioid dependence: randomised controlled trial.
- Discovering, Developing, and Delivering Smoking Cessation Medications Is Focus of NIDA Symposium
- Genetic Variation May Increase Nicotine Craving and Smoking Relapse
- Excerpts From Amicus Brief of Prevention Groups in Support of Student Drug-testing
- A Testing Time for the Prime Minister
- Should students be randomly tested for drugs?
- Anti-drug testing bill threatens students
- Drug Courts Pay Off
- Current Drug testing in Britain
- Positron emission tomographic evidence of toxic effect of MDMA (“Ecstasy”) on brain serotonin neurons in human beings.
- Drug use and delinquent behavior among high risk youths
- Drug Testing USA
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Law
- Should Police Have the Power to Test Suspects For Drugs?
- Briefing No.1
- Tackling points against medicalization of marijuana
- Are Drug Courts Effective ?
- Undercover in Vancouver
- Doomed to sucess cannabis downgraded in Britain
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Prevention
- How to Implement a Model to Get Youth off Drugs and Out of Crime
- Neurofeedback in Treatment of Substance Abuse
- Drug Court Prevents Overdoses in South Boston
- Internationally proven community alcohol crime and harm reduction programmes feasible in Britain
- Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Just Saying No
- Fact Sheet on the Myths of Drug Legalization
- This paper was developed as part of a wider training programme in drug prevention for St. John Ambulance. Although it was published in 1999 the points made are still very relevant today.
- Multiculturalism at least as Effective as Cultural Specificity in Test of Prevention Program
- Drugs: A Hard or Soft Approach?
- Bringing Research and Practice Together To Improve Drug Abuse Prevention
- ECAD paper creating alternatives
- 5th Global Anti-Drug Conference Launches Counter-revolution
- Drugs-Why Bother With Parents?!
- The First Five Years
- Drug policy: a tale of two countries Australia and Sweden
- My Cows or Yours?
- Drug Strategy: Adjusting the Focus
- The Real Prevention : A Definition
- Legalisation or Zero Tolerance?
- Peter Stoker for HNN – 27th May 2003
- Doing it together strengthens families and helps prevent substance use
- The Ultimate Drug Strategy Increasing Public Outrage Against Drug Use
- The 5th International Drug Prevention Conference Rome – Sept 2003
- RIGA conference – April 2004
- ECAD 10th Anniversary Mayors’ Conference Stockholm May 15, 2003
- 5th Global Declaration Rome 2003
- Third Global Conference on Drug Abuse Prevention Palermo-October 2000
- A Rough Ride For Prevention
- Smoking safety scare sparks SWT ban
- Creating Lasting Connections (CLC)
- SMART Leaders
- Model Programs for High-Risk Youth
- Implementation issues and society’s perception of risk and consequences
- What is prevention ?
- Drug prevention outside and inside prison walls
- Involving Parents in Drugs Prevention
- Study Confirms Drug Prevention Works
- Effects of a Community-Based Prevention Programme on Decreasing Drug Use in High-Risk Adolescents
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Social Affairs
- Marijuana Smoking Is Associated With a Spectrum
- Re: Establishment of Needle and Syringe Programs
- New Perspectives on Marijuana and Youth
- Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings May Reduce Depression Symptoms
- NHS Statistics on Drug Misuse: England, 2009.
- A Commentary on “Consumer” Language, Stigma, and Recovery Representation
- In Defense Of The Drug War by John Hawkins
- Definitely ……. Maybe Not? The Normalisation of Recreational Drug Use Amongst Young People
- Scott Saunders is dead
- What does 420 mean to you?
- Suicidal Thoughts among Youths Aged 12 to 17 with Major Depressive Episode
- HIV Increasing Among UK Injecting Drug Users
- Teenagers in Britain Shocking report
- The Tip of the Iceberg
- Body Shop’s hemp line
- Hemp food products
- Smoking safety scare sparks SWT ban
- Call for heroin ‘shooting galleries’
- Neighborhood revitalization
- What influences young people to take drugs?
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Transport
- Driving Under the Influence (DUI) among Young Persons
- Driving High: Teens Cite Cars as a Top Place to Use Marijuana
- Cannabis and Road Safety in Canada: Evidence on the Prevalence of Cannabis Use and Driving
- Pot and Driving FAQ
- Smoking safety scare sparks SWT ban
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