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Education Sector
- How does cognitive behaviour therapy work with opioid-dependent clients? Results of the UKCBTMM study.
- Characteristics Of Effective Prevention
- Volatile substance abuse
- Personality-targeted interventions delay uptake of drinking and decrease risk of alcohol-related problems when delivered by teachers.
- The Disease Model Reconsidered
- Guide to implementing family skills training programmes for drug abuse prevention.
- Reducing youth alcohol drinking through a parent-targeted intervention: the Örebro Prevention Program.
- How to Implement a Model to Get Youth off Drugs and Out of Crime
- DfES Drug Education Doc. Consultation :
- Moralising… demoralising: the fight over personal and social education
- Parents and Drugs
- Effects of a Community-Based Prevention Programme on Decreasing Drug Use in High-Risk Adolescents
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Effects of Drugs
- How does cognitive behaviour therapy work with opioid-dependent clients? Results of the UKCBTMM study.
- Cannabis, synthetic cannabinoids, and psychosis risk: What the evidence says
- Public Policy Statement: Definition of Addiction
- The Facts on Marijuana
- Newly Born, and Withdrawing From Painkillers
- Smoking and Adolescent Attention Deficit
- Marijuana use linked to increased risk of testicular cancer
- ‘Marijuana’s link with psychosis’: Toxic Cannabis – health nightmare’
- Why Cannabis Must be Reclassified
- Consequences of Illicit Drug Use In America
- Marijuana Research Review
- High-potency cannabis and the risk of psychosis
- The Disease Model Reconsidered
- Alcohol dependence
- Marijuana Smoking Is Associated With a Spectrum
- Adolescent Brain Development
- Injection drug use, low baseline CD4 counts continue to predict poorer HAART response after six years
- “Addiction is a disease”
- Cannabis and Mental Illness ( Psychosis/schizophrenia )
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Cannabis and cancer
- Warning: Keep off the grass
- Cannabis and risk of psychosis
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
- 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’
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Harm Reduction including HIV
- Wither Harm Reduction?
- Testimony of David G. Evans, Esq.
- GPs, the NTA and the Numbers Game
- 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
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Intervention (including testing)
- Outcome Evaluation of the F.I.S.T. Drug Court Program
- 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
- Excerpts From Amicus Brief of Prevention Groups in Support of Student Drug-testing
- A Testing Time for the Prime Minister
- Anti-drug testing bill threatens students
- Positron emission tomographic evidence of toxic effect of MDMA (“Ecstasy”) on brain serotonin neurons in human beings.
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Law
- UK Cannabis legalisation lobby founders in deep water?
- Some Dubbed It Hug-a-Thug
- The Mexican Drug War
- The Facts on Adult Drug Courts
- One Cannot Vote For A Medicine
- Undercover in Vancouver
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Prevention
- Characteristics Of Effective Prevention
- Will the Real Drug Policy ‘Emphasis’ Please Stand Up!
- The Facts on Marijuana
- National Anti-drug Campaign Succeeds in Lowering Marijuana Use, Study Suggests
- Effects of a school-based prevention program on European adolescents’ patterns of alcohol use.
- The “Resounding Success” of Portuguese Drug Policy
- The Heroin Trial Failure
- Effective delivery and positive messages
- Alcohol dependence
- Preventing Alcohol and Drug Misuse in Young People
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Legalized Drugs: Dumber Than You May Think
- Characteristics Of Effective Prevention
- Newly Born, and Withdrawing From Painkillers
- Why Do Schizophrenics Smoke Cigarettes?
- Some Dubbed It Hug-a-Thug
- Special Report – A Broken Mind
- Effective delivery and positive messages
- Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost-Benefit Analysis U.S.
- Guide to implementing family skills training programmes for drug abuse prevention.
- Heroin Overdose?
- Marijuana Smoking Is Associated With a Spectrum
- Re: Establishment of Needle and Syringe Programs
- New Perspectives on Marijuana and Youth
- NHS Statistics on Drug Misuse: England, 2009.
- A Commentary on “Consumer” Language, Stigma, and Recovery Representation
- Alcohol and young people
- 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
- Suicidal Thoughts among Youths Aged 12 to 17 with Major Depressive Episode
- HIV Increasing Among UK Injecting Drug Users
- Teenagers in Britain Shocking report
- 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
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