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Four Leicester people treated after taking mephedrone
Four people were taken ill in Leicester at the weekend after taking the drug mephedrone, police said | BBC, UK
Intensive 12-step rehabilitation promoted by substitute prescribing
Abstinence and recovery characterised by employment are priority UK policy objectives to which the extension of mutual aid is considered a major route. This US study illustrates that both the route and the objectives are not just compatible with, but may be promoted by opiate maintenance prescribing | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Department of Health business plan 2011-2015
It sets out the vision and priorities for the Department and the Structural Reform section of the Plan includes key commitments involved in delivering our reform programme up to 2015. Data summary | Department of Health, UK
National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises
Information about the survey and 2010 survey results. Ipsos MORI for the | Cabinet Office, UK
Home Office annual report and accounts 2010-11
The annual report sets out the vision and priorities of the department over the past year, including progress against our priorities, and also sets out what the aims of the department are going forward | Home Office, UK
Business of crime proves costly for heroin supply network
Six men were sentenced to a total of 100 years in prison today after conspiring to supply close to half-a-tonne of heroin to towns and cities throughout Britain, and launder a minimum of £5m in illicit profits | SOCA, UK
Reducing harm caused by alcohol
The Robertson Trust funded the post of a project worker from Alcohol Focus Scotland to work with and engage with a community in developing a community action project. Community Action Blackburn final report | Alcohol Focus Scotland, UK
Options for dealing with squatting
Consultation Paper | Ministry of Justice, UK
Mobile phones have made some young people more vulnerable than ever
Professionals are now observing how vulnerable young people - many of who have low self-esteem, a lack of influence from supportive adults, early experiences with alcohol or drugs, and more unsupervised time - are at further risk online from being groomed by older peers and becoming addicted to a virtual world that seems more sane than the one they inhabit offline | Guardian, UK
Newman charity gives €25k to supply detox beds for drug addicts
The €25,000 will provide funding for the opening of a new, ten-bed, medically supervised detox facility at St Francis Farm in Tullow, Co Carlow, which is run by Merchants Quay | Irish Examiner
Accidental Ingestion of Buprenorphine
Nearly All Emergency Department Visits for the Accidental Ingestion of Buprenorphine Occur in Children Under the Age of Six | CESAR Fax, USA
Reform held up by vested interests
The alcohol industry is doing its utmost to slow down the passage of the Alcohol Reform Bill in the face of New Zealand's problem-drinking culture | The Press, New Zealand
Shoring up a flood of drugs - Afghan heroin enters Iran's eastern border
The border separating the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan from the Islamic Republics of Afghanistan and Pakistan is today considered one of the major trafficking areas for heroin and opium | UNODC