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They are behind a string of celebrity deaths. But these legal drugs also blight thousands of more ordinary lives [Independent, UK]
It is given to half the country’s estimated 300,000 heroin addicts while parliamentary answers have revealed that 65,000 prisoners were prescribed it in the past year, including nearly 20,000 on a maintenance programme which can last years — an annual rise of 57 per cent [Times, UK]
Whichever way you look at it, the Government’s increasing reliance on methadone to treat heroin addicts involves moral issues. Predominant among these is that the State is in effect cast in the role of drug dealer — conceivably for as long as the addicts live [[Times, UK]
After a range of meetings with high profile industry experts, five intense residentials and two international study visits, the ground-breaking Youth Commission on Alcohol has come to an end {long download} [Young Scot, UK]
Scottish Ministers asked Young Scot to deliver a Youth Commission on Alcohol, one of the actions identified in Changing Scotland’s Relationship with Alcohol: A Framework for Action published by the Scottish Government in March 2009. The brief was to support young people to make suggestions for policy and action to change Scotland’s culture in relation to alcohol [Young Scot, UK]
I have just finished reading ‘Mum, can you lend me twenty quid?’ by Elizabeth Burton-Phillips… For those of you who have not read the book, it’s a must. Every man, woman and teenager should read it. The writing style is beautifully simple and it flows through the story. The story is honest to it’s core and is full of love, anguish, horror, compassion, friendship, hopes, shattered dreams and survival [Kato, Wired In]
I’m just so happy with myself, because I have reached a point I thought I would never see I thought that everything I have now just wasn’t for me. It wasn’t who I was to be when I ‘grew up’. That might sound a little strange, but I started so young I don’t know how it feels to be ‘normal’. Any ideas anyone? [didn’t play well with others, Wired In]
Inexcess TV were fortunate to be invited to the UK launch of SoberLink in Exeter. Championing the right of all people who are alcohol dependent to access the best possible care the SoberLink launch was timely following Proffessor Nutt and others talking about an alcohol ”timebomb” in the UK [Inexcess TV, UK]
Even the limited evaluations of the drugs strategy that have been done have been suppressed – like the value for money study of the last ten year drugs strategy that Transform recently prised from the fingers of the Home Office only after a three year Freedom of Information battle [Transform Drug Policy Foundation, UK]
An uncorrected transcript of evidence [Committee of Public Accounts, Parliament, UK]
Amid calls from headteachers and drug campaigners for an instant ban, the Home Office drugs minister, Alan Campbell, said he would take “immediate action” after advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), which is due at the end of this month [Guardian, UK]
[audioBoo, UK]
R. Gil Kerlikowske became director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy in May. Kerlikowske, 60, has worked in law enforcement for nearly four decades [Washington Post, USA]
The following is an interview of Dirk Hansen, blogger at Addiction Inbox. Dirk is the author of “The Chemical Carousel,” which looks at addiction as a chemical disease with biological effects on our psychology [All Treatment, USA]
The federal government’s refusal to declare it would take over the struggling mental health system in its health-reform blueprint has drawn fire from two psychiatric leaders, Patrick McGorry and Ian Hickie [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
“My whole life, my whole being was centred on drugs and any means to get them you know. My whole life revolved around drugs, drugs, drugs” [Wired In]
