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Members' register of interests
This register of interests for the council members of the ACMD lists their occupations, the organisations they work for and the nature of any interests they might have | ACMD, UK
Support. Don't punish - global day of action
The SUPPORT. DON’T PUNISH campaign – coordinated by IDPC, INPUD, HRI and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance – is planning a Global Day of Action on Wednesday 26th June in 28 cities around the world | Support Don't Punish, UK
Smokers are 'drug addicts', says public health minister Anna Soubry
People who smoke cigarettes are "drug addicts", Anna Soubry, the outspoken public health minister, has said | Telegraph, UK
We know ciggies kill, but who can resist a freebie?
The MPs who take fag ash cash to go to Chelsea | Guardian, UK
Misguided claims alcohol in pregnancy helps baby
"A glass of wine every day in pregnancy could be good for your baby,” is the entirely incorrect headline in The Daily Telegraph today. Other newspapers reported that drinking while pregnant does ‘no harm’, these claims are also misleading | NHS Choices, UK
Should drug education focus on drug use or drug abuse?
My experience is that you can have quite sophisticated discussions about drugs from a relatively early age | MentorThinks, UK
Web addicts' withdrawal symptoms similar to drug users
Internet addicts can suffer a form of cold turkey when they stop using the web - just like people coming off drugs, according to research | BBC, UK
Meeting hard-core drug users at a four star hotel in Lithuania
I’m at the four-star Radisson Hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, for one of the world’s most cosmopolitan gatherings of former and current drug users | Vice, UK
Clinicians can learn how to help alcohol patients stay in treatment and take medication
Getting patients to take medication is a major issue across medicine. This US alcohol treatment study enhanced compliance through a novel and manageable approach combining brief motivational interviewing with structured clinical counselling involving feedback on the patient’s real-time pill-taking record | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Tobacco industry interests put before public health in International Trade Committee vote
Public health sidelined to tobacco industry interests | GUE/NGL
Local businessman, Bill Stevens, champions first UK accreditation in the addictions field (PDF)
RedChair's founder, Bill Stevens, is celebrating a breakthrough in his work, with the first internationally recognised accreditation in counselling. This comes at a time when Manchester has the highest death toll, relating to drugs, in England | Red Chair, UK
Beckley Foundation scientific committee member disputes logic that allows heroin but not cannabis in hospitals
A leading psychedelics researcher and member of the Beckley Foundation Scientific Committee has co-authored a paper describing the legislative and bureaucratic barriers to legitimate investigation of psychoactive substances | Beckley Foundation, UK
Scottish Borders public alcohol ban by-laws considered
Consultation has started on plans to introduce by-laws banning the consumption of alcohol in public places in parts of the Scottish Borders | BBC, UK
You Bet and Just Another Game, gambling addiction programmes (PDF)
You Bet!’ and ‘Just another Game’ resources will feature in the ITV programme Tonight, presented by Martin Geissler called ‘Britain likes a bet’. It will be broadcast on Thursday 20 June between 7.30pm and 8pm on ITV HD, ITV, STV and UTV | Lions Lifeskills, UK
Royal Bolton Hospital rebuilds smoking shelters
Smoking shelters are to be rebuilt at the Royal Bolton Hospital, after an online poll and postal vote from patients, staff and local people | BBC, UK
Drugs raid on Isles of Scilly skipper death yacht
A man fell to his death from the mast of a stricken yacht while officials carried out a drugs raid on his ship | BBC, UK
Shed ban for drug grower Simon Redclift of Dinas Powys
A former cannabis user is dismantling the garden shed where he used to grow his drugs after being banned from going inside it by a judge | BBC, Wales
Alcohol restrictions protect Aboriginal people, high court rules
Curbs on the sale and possession of alcohol in 19 Queensland communities do target Indigenous Australians, but do not breach discrimination laws | Guardian, UK
Marijuana legalization: What a long, strange trip it has been
The marijuana industry did not turn out as social activists imagined it, writes Seattle Times columnist Bruce Ramsey | Seattle Times, USA
We Can't Arrest Our Way Out of This Problem
How to Make Money Selling Drugs, an independent film due in theaters at the end of this month, makes a number of arguments for why we should end the war on drugs. A cop for 34 years, my reasons are simple: Drug prohibition is bad for public safety, and it's never going to work | Huffington Post, USA
Harper should embrace safe-injection sites: They’re the law-and-order option
As an internal medicine physician who works in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and as a researcher who was responsible for the evaluation of Vancouver’s Insite supervised injecting facility, I have been confused by how entrenched the federal government’s opposition to safe-injection programs has become in recent days | Globe and Mail, Canada
Drug crime budgets leave spending on harm reduction way behind
Australia is spending more than a billion dollars each year fighting the ''war on drugs'' but has slashed funding for harm reduction, a landmark analysis has found | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Government Drug Policy Expenditure in Australia (PDF)
This study provides a new estimate of Australian governments’ direct or proactive spending on illicit drug policy for 2009/10. Four drug policy domains were examined: prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement | DPMP, Australia
Some tips for the development of visual images to promote harm reduction
If you have been following the blog, you may have noticed the development of the Gallery, a page dedicated to images promoting harm reduction. The gallery has proven to be immensely popular and has been a newish way for me to promote harm reduction practice | Stonetree Harm Reduction, Australia
Drug use in South Africa has increased by 600 per cent in the last decade
The South African government is warning that drug abuse could pose an even bigger threat to its young people than the HIV/AIDS pandemic | abc.net.au, Australia
Baby boomers driving drug rehab programs
Australia's ageing baby boomers are driving demand for drug addiction services, with a doubling of the proportion of over-50s seeking help to get off opioid drugs such as heroin | West Australian, Australia
MPs' drinking in the spotlight
A parliamentary inquiry will consider if NSW MPs should be banned from drinking alcohol at work following accusations Finance Minister Greg Pearce was so drunk during a late-night sitting he was unable to vote | Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
End alcohol advertising in live sport: O'Callaghan
The West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has launched an attack on the liquor industry at a forum in Canberra today | ABC News, Australia
Warning on overuse of hillbilly heroin
Alarming prescription rates for an addictive painkiller known as "hillbilly heroin" have prompted a nationwide call for doctors to curb its use | Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand