DS Daily - 11th July 2011 |
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Annual Accounts 2010/2011
National Treatment Agency, UK
Presentations from Pathways Seminar
The following presentations come from our seminar on how schools are teaching drug education and how they can integrate universal provision to evidence and to services to support those more vulnerable to drug problems | Drug Education Forum, UK
MDMA/Ecstasy - Statement by Scottish Drugs Forum and Crew
There is some evidence, from user reports, that pills that contain a higher dose of MDMA may be available in Scotland. Regular or experienced users of ecstasy should be aware that these will seem more potent that the ecstasy pills to which they are accustomed | Scottish Drugs Forum, UK
Fear over killer Ecstasy pills at music festival
Police have warned revellers at the T in the Park festival to beware of any drugs bought on the site after officers seized a shipment of Ecstasy with a street value of £80,000 | Independent, Ireland
Scotland set to lead on minimum unit pricing for alcohol
Councils in north west England are drafting a bylaw for minimum drink prices, but Scotland may get there first | Guardian, UK
Middle classes are Britain's new homeless: State safety nets are gone
Geoff Hawkins, chief executive of the housing charity Chapter 1, said the problem was no longer confined to the stereotype of rough sleepers rehabilitating from lifelong addictions, but now includes victims of recession who do not qualify for appropriate help | Independent, UK
Plan to control use of benzodiazepines
Minister of State with responsibility for Primary Care Róisín Shortall is developing proposals under the Misuse of Drugs legislation to introduce stricter controls on benzodiazepines and an initiative to tackle overprescribing | Irish Medical Times
Denial of Petition To Initiate Proceedings To Reschedule Marijuana
Accordingly, and as set forth in detail in the accompanying DHHS and DEA documents, there is no statutory basis under the CSA for DEA to grant your petition to initiate rulemaking proceedings to reschedule marijuana. Your petition is, therefore, hereby denied | Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice, USA
Cheap wines worry doctor
Surgeon John Crozier operates on some of the 1500 Australians sent to hospital every week as a result of alcohol and can't understand why wine should sell for as little as $2 a bottle | The Age, Australia
Rights groups fear wave of deaths as Thailand faces new drugs crackdown
Pledge by PM-in-waiting as methamphetamine addiction rockets echoes brother's 2003 war on gangs | Guardian, UK
Drug situation in Georgia 2010
There is an urgent need for a balanced, budgeted, feasible and measurable drug strategy and corresponding action plan in the country; adoption of National Drug Strategy will create necessary | Adiktologie Journal, Czech Republic