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Drugnet Europe 69

Drugnet Europe, the EMCDDA’s quarterly newsletter, provides regular information on the Agency’s activities to a broad readership [European Monitoring Centre of Drugs and Drug Addiction]

Tags: europemagazine   Date: 02 Mar 10

Clean Needles Save Lives

Needle exchange programs in the US – watch our movie to learn how harm reduction protects communities from death and disease! {9’58”} [Hungarian Civil Liberties Union]

Tags: blogeuropefilm   Date: 18 Jan 10

HCLU Films Portfolio 2009

HCLU presents the results of its video advocacy work in 2009, in a new report published today [Hungarian Civil Liberties Union]

Tags: europereport   Date: 13 Jan 10

First European Conference on FASD

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Growing Awareness in Europe, Wednesday through Friday, November 3 to 5, 2010, Kerkrade, Netherlands [European FASD Network]

Tags: europeevent   Date: 22 Dec 09

Alcohol advertising in new media: Trends in Alcohol Marketing

European figures are not publicly available, but American alcohol advertising expenditure figures show that new media investment by the industry are relatively small compared to other media, but are increasing fast [European Centre for Monitoring Alcohol Marketing]

Tags: europereport   Date: 07 Dec 09

Forgotten Families - The Needs of Kinship Carers in Europe

Understanding the needs of kinship carers and the children they care for is a critical part of the EU Kinship Carers Project. This report provides an overview of the needs of this group based on interviews with over 180 carers in 7 European countries [EU Kinship Carers Project]

Tags: europereport   Date: 04 Dec 09

European health and safety organisations call for stricter EU-coordinated alcohol policies

Twelve European health and safety umbrella organisations call for stricter EU-coordinated alcohol policies [Eurocare (The European Alcohol Policy Alliance)]

Tags: europeprofessional news   Date: 01 Dec 09

How the UN sets back harm reduction in Hungary

Hungary is to adopt a progressive national drug strategy in December 2009, but the opposition is using the UN Political Declaration to prevent its adoption [Drug Reporter, Hungary]

Tags: blogeurope   Date: 01 Dec 09

“We are the Keepers of the Light”

Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU)‘s film on the candlelight vigil organized by the DPA in Albuquerque, New Mexico [Drug Reporter, Hungary]

Tags: europefilm   Date: 20 Nov 09

Ira Glasser speaks at the DPA conference

Ira Glasser, former director of the American Civil Liberties Union and the president of the board of the Drug Policy Allience addressed the participants of the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 12 November, 2009 [Drug Reporter, Hungary]

Tags: europefilmtalk   Date: 17 Nov 09

Drugnet Europe 68

Drugnet Europe, the EMCDDA’s quarterly newsletter, provides regular information on the Agency’s activities to a broad readership [EMCDDA]

Tags: europemagazine   Date: 06 Nov 09

Drug offences: sentencing and other outcomes

The sentences that offenders receive for drug law violations across the European Union are examined for the first time in this ‘Selected issue’ [EMCDDA]

Tags: europereport   Date: 06 Nov 09

2009 Annual report: the state of the drugs problem in Europe

The report on the state of the drugs problem in Europe presents the EMCDDA’s yearly overview of the drug phenomenon [European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction]

Tags: europereport   Date: 06 Nov 09

Understanding the ‘Spice’ phenomenon

Smokable herbal mixtures under the brand name ‘Spice’ are known to have been sold on the Internet and in various specialised shops since at least 2006 and anecdotal reports suggest that those products may have been available as early as 2004 [EMCDDA]

Tags: europereport   Date: 06 Nov 09

Update on WTO negotiations and alcohol policy

There are new movements in the WTO negotiations, also on the issue with the greatest relevance for alcohol policy; namely the Disciplines on Domestic Regulations [Alcohol, Drugs and Development]

Tags: europeprofessional news   Date: 30 Oct 09

Evidence of the efficacy of interventions

Evidence-based information on the effectiveness of interventions attempts to integrate available individual expertise (i.e. expert opinions) with the best available external evidence from systematic research [European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction]

Tags: europeresource   Date: 29 Oct 09

Does marketing communication impact on the volume and patterns of consumption of alcoholic…

The Science Group considered the advantages and disadvantages of a number of different methodologies that could be used to inform answers to the question “does marketing communication impact on the volume and patterns of consumption of alcoholic beverages, especially by young people” [Science Group of the European Alcohol and Health Forum]

Tags: europereport   Date: 02 Oct 09

Tobacco Control in the EU

With the aim of improving the health of the European citizens in an efficient and cost-effective way, the European Commission is continuously working on tobacco control, both with national authorities and at the global level {European Union]

Tags: europereport   Date: 02 Oct 09

Progress Report on the Implementation of the EU Alcohol Strategy

The first EU Alcohol Strategy was adopted by the European Commission in October 2006 in response to the growing recognition of the health impact of harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption in the EU. This is the first report to review progress against strategy implementation [EU Directorate-General for Health & Consumers]

Tags: europereport   Date: 24 Sep 09

Responding to drug driving in Europe

Alcohol alone is estimated to account for up to 10 000 road deaths a year in the European Union, one quarter of all road deaths [European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction]

Tags: europereport   Date: 22 Sep 09

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