DS Daily - 23 April 2010 |
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CUT - What else are people eating, snorting and injecting when they take illegal drugs?
A Guide to the Adulterants, Bulking agents and other Contaminants found in illicit drugs [Centre for Public Health, UK]
Crime in England and Wales
Quarterly Update to December 2009 [Home Office, UK]
Model-Based Appraisal of Alcohol Minimum Pricing
Model-Based Appraisal of Alcohol Minimum Pricing and Off-Licensed Trade Discount Bans in Scotland Using The Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model (V 2):- An Update Based on Newly Available Data [Scottish Government, UK]
Death toll from alcohol minimum pricing is revised
Setting a minimum price for alcohol in Scotland would save fewer lives than previously thought – according to the latest predictions by experts [The Herald, Scotland, UK]
Ireland Tops Euro Binge Drinking Poll
Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol related issues, today voiced alarm that Ireland was again top of the European binge drinking league with one in four of us downing five drinks or more in one sitting in the previous month - double the European average [Alcohol Action Ireland]
EU citizens’ attitudes towards alcohol
In this report, findings are presented from an EU-wide Eurobarometer poll carried out in autumn 2009 and, where appropriate, compared with a similar poll carried out in the autumn of 2006,5 around the time of the adoption of the EU alcohol strategy [European Commission]
Soup kitchen transformed in to therapeutic setting
A successful group therapy programme at a large New York soup kitchen shows that welfare services with high concentrations of problem substance users can be transformed from environments which impede recovery into ones which promote it. Print publication 2006 [Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK]
Paving the Way
Watch our movie and learn more about medical marijuana! [Drug Reporter, Hungary]
HIV rampant in federal prisons: Report
The Correctional Service of Canada analysis, based on a survey of 3,370 prisoners in federal penitentiaries, says that 4.6 per cent of inmates said they had the virus and 31 per cent said they had hepatitis C. [Canada.com]
Psychedelic trips aid anxiety treatments in study
The New York University study is among a handful now going on in the United States and elsewhere with drugs like LSD, MDMA (Ecstasy) and psilocybin, the main ingredient of "magic mushrooms." [Washington Post, USA]
Sentencing Cameron Douglas
Or the Selective Implementation of the War on Drugs [Huffington Post, USA]