DS Daily - 14th December 2011 |
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Cost of cheap alcohol
Letter - Ban cut-price supermarket drinks to save live | Telegraph, UK
Ban cut-price alcohol to save lives, leading doctors warn
Alcoholic drinks sold at “pocket-money prices” in supermarkets are costing thousands of lives and must be made more expensive, a group of leading doctors and academics warns today | Telegraph, UK
Met chief: force criminals to wear US-style 'sobriety bracelets'
Bernard Hogan-Howe says the bracelets, which detect whether the wearer has been drinking alcohol, would cut crime | Guardian, UK
Brain Waves 4: Neuroscience and the law
It is likely that developments in neuroscience will increasingly be brought to bear on the law. This report sets out some of the areas where neuroscience might be of relevance, along with some of the limits to its application. Full report | The Royal Society, UK
Brain imaging could pick out benefits cheats
Brain scans could soon be used to pick out benefits cheats and discover whether they are really experiencing pain, a Royal Society report says | Telegraph, UK
Erlestoke Prison 'has drugs and bullying problem'
An inspection at a Wiltshire prison has shown that illicit drugs and bullying remain a "serious problem" | BBC, UK
Child poverty targets will not be met, says Alan Milburn
Coalition adviser urges increased investment in early years funding to prevent the poor bearing brunt of austerity measures | Guardian, UK
Poor families facing a 'triple whammy' of benefit, support and service cuts
The coalition's policies could do more harm even than Thatcher, says Alison Garnham, head of the Child Poverty Action Group | Guardian, UK
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Biotie tests cocaine dependence treatment in USA
Finland's Biotie Therapies Corp has signed a deal with the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the US National Institutes of Health to investigate nepicastat in the treatment of cocaine dependence | PharmaTimes
Large preventive impacts from primary school character development programme
In Hawaii and then the less promising schools of Chicago, a primary school programme aiming to improving school climate and pupil character development had substantial and, in Chicago, lasting preventive impacts - another illustration that focusing on drugs is not always the best way to prevent drug problems | Drug and Alcohol Findings, UK
Disadvantaged areas flooded with bottle shops
Disadvantaged areas of Victoria have up to six times as many bottle shops per person than wealthier neighbourhoods, research shows | The Age, Australia
Communities support greater restrictions on alcohol
New research from the University of Otago shows that New Zealanders are highly supportive of local authority policies that restrict the availability and promotion of alcohol | Scoop, New Zealand