The continued push in the USA for marijuana to be legalised ‘for medicinal purposes’ has resulted in many States allowing the substance to be sold in so-called ‘marijuana dispensaries’. However closer investigation has shown the majority of people purchasing the substance are not those with serious and even terminal illnesses, but existing drug users wanting [...]
Read more...Early adolescent cannabis use may contribute to the development of symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) in adulthood, according to new data from a longitudinal cohort study. “The uniqueness of this study lies in the demonstration of an association between early cannabis use and subsequent schizophrenia-like symptoms that persisted into adulthood and that was not [...]
Read more...The smoking ban in public places has led to a reduction in the number of complications in pregnancy, a new study has found. Complications in pregnancy have fallen as a result of the ban on smoking in public places, according to a new study. Researchers found the ban, introduced almost six years ago, has led [...]
Read more...“While prescription drug abuse has been a major public health concern for several years, the public health and public safety consequences of prescription drug abuse continue to mount. National data show that in 2009 the 39,147 drug-induced deaths exceeded deaths from motor vehicle crashes (36,216). In 2008, the latest year for which national data are [...]
Read more...The two pals are believed to have taken deadly GBL, a solvent found in paint strippers and chillingly known on the club scene as “coma in a bottle” A heartbroken mum yesterday warned that Britain faces a new epidemic after banned party drug GBL was blamed for killing two friends within hours. Carl Fearon, 24, [...]
Read more...Even smart people make mistakes, sometimes surprisingly large ones. A current example is drug legalization, which way too many smart people consider a good idea. They offer three bad arguments. First, they contend, “the drug war has failed”, despite years of effort we have been unable to reduce the drug problem. Actually, as imperfect as [...]
Read more...The Government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has got an application to ban Methoxetamine (Mexxy) as two people in Leicestershire lost their lives due to the drug. The police and health advisors have advised that the people should not take the drug. A woman, who was 59 years old from Leicester and a [...]
Read more...Theresa May, the Home Secretary, issued a humiliating rebuke to her drug advisers after they called for the possession of drugs to be decriminalised. The Home Office said there was no intention to give people a “green light” to use drugs because they “destroy lives and cause untold misery”. The Advisory Council on the Misuse [...]
Read more...The California Medical Association (CMA) took a major leap lacking science and common sense. With the issuance of a White Paper calling for the legalization of marijuana for medical and non-medial purposes, they have transitioned from a medical group into a lapdog of the drug legalization lobby. “I am thoroughly appalled by the CMA’s decision [...]
Read more...BRIAN DONNELLY THE controversial heroin substitute methadone was implicated in more deaths than the drug itself in two areas of Scotland last year. The figures for the Lothians show methadone was implicated in 33 deaths, while the comparable figure for heroin was 26. In Grampian, another historical centre of drug abuse, the substitute was a [...]
Read more...Smoking is an important risk factor in brain shrinkage and a decline in brain function in later years, a new study suggests. The study found smoking, along with high blood pressure, diabetes and excess weight, all contributed to potentially dangerous changes in the brain that could lead to a decline in mental functioning as soon [...]
Read more...Celebrities and millionaires with no history of addiction research or helping addicts to reclaim destroyed lives campaigned globally in June to make drugs even more available – citing reasons based on theory not fact. David Raynes tells the truth COMPARE STATISTICS: HARMS OF LEGAL vs ILLEGAL DRUGS • “More deaths are caused each year by [...]
Read more...A new study by a team of researchers in California shows it is possible to vaccinate laboratory animals against the effects of heroin. The vaccine not only blunted the painkilling action of heroin, it also prevented rats from becoming addicted to the drug. It didn’t keep the animals from gaining pain relief from many other [...]
Read more..."When representing a cause (almost) lost, sound your trumpet, mount your steed and go for the very last charge, failing which you will die of sad old age in the depths of the forgotten fortess, no longer besieged because life has abandoned it for greener pastures."
Jean Raspail
From the website of jeanraspail.net
"Universal prevention initiatives are important elements of a comprehensive prevention strategy that should include selective and indicated prevention initiatives as well. In order to prevent the development of dependence you need all three - and you cannot do without universal prevention. Norms, attitudes, availability are important risk factors for developing drug use problems as well as neighbourhood disorganization and weak family bonds."
Christina Gynna, Deputy National Drugs Policy Co-ordinator, Sweden,
at the ICAA conference in Budapest, 24 October 2005
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