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West Yorkshire heroin shortage 'may lead to overdoses'
A shortage of heroin could lead to users overdosing when supplies pick up, West Yorkshire police have warned | BBC, UK
Drugs crackdown led to 596 arrests
Suffolk Police today vowed to continue their war on drug dealers who “ruin society” after it emerged that nearly 600 drug-related arrests were made in the county last year| Suffolk Evening Star, UK
Drug use prevalence estimates report
This report is based on work commissioned by the EMCDDA in 2009. It examines differences in methods and results between general population surveys conducted in a single context (focusing exclusively on substance use) and a multi context (focusing on health and healthy lifestyles) |EMCDDA
Pills that keep your mind afloat
What is the downside of brain-enhancing drugs? | Independent, UK
Pickles told to keep social care duties by sector
Social workers and sector leaders have told ministers to retain councils' duties to assess and provide social care, in response to a consultation that proposed abolishing them | Community Care, UK
Youth policy
The Youth Policy team have launched a survey called Alcohol Ads and You to find out what young people think about alcohol marketing | Alcohol Concern, UK
Teenage dinnertime tipple 'leads to alcohol problems'
Middle-class parents who let their children have the odd glass of wine or bottle of beer at home when they are in their early teens are doing them more harm than good, a study finds | Telegraph, UK
Tackling Tobacco Smuggling–building on our success
A renewed strategy for | HM Revenue & Customs and the UK Border Agency
Canadians split on heroin shooting galleries
The only thing that's clear about Canadian public opinion on heroin injection sites is that it's sharply divided | Canoe News, Canada
Study - Extended-Release Naltrexone Can Be Used In Opioid Addicts
But Linked Comment Authors Criticise FDA For Ever Having Approved The Drug | Medical News Today
Injecting drug use and associated harms among Aboriginal Australians
A major new report on injecting drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders released | ANCD, Australia