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Pregnant Briton may face firing squad over Laos drugs charge

There is no evidence that she was anything more than a mule, according to Reprieve, which says that her friends are adamant that she was not a drug user [Guardian, UK]

Tags: pressuk   Date: 02 May 09

Preaching to the unconvertible?

An astonishing 360,000 young people aged 11-15 get drunk every week. We invited industry and health experts to discuss how an avalanche of health and social problems can be prevented [Guardian, UK]

Tags: pressuk   Date: 30 Apr 09

Sally’s story

Sally was a drug addict for seven years before she managed to get clean and re-establish contact with her children – all thanks to a family legal aid lawyer [Guardian, UK]

Tags: pressuk   Date: 30 Apr 09

Clean breaks

Let’s find out why drug users leave treatment, says Paul Hayes, CEO of NTA [Guardian, UK]

Tags: pressuk   Date: 29 Apr 09

“DD Today, 6 years ago”: Prohibition, mark two

It is 42 years since the UN set out to eradicate the use of illegal drugs, with results that we see all around us: the last marijuana smoker races the last speaker of Scots-Gaelic towards extinction; redundant cocaine dealers beg pathetically on the streets; the scourge of heroin has been banished forever from the planet [Guardian, UK]

Tags: pressuk   Date: 29 Apr 09

Beer sales sink as drinkers cut back

Recession leads to falling beer sales in both pubs and supermarkets [Guardian, UK]

Tags: pressuk   Date: 28 Apr 09

The Portuguese Experiment: Did Legalizing Drugs Work?

“Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success,” says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. “It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does.” [Time, USA]

Tags: pressusa   Date: 26 Apr 09

No one can possibly know the risks of taking these drugs

Although we have laws to control access to drugs such as cocaine and cannabis, we tolerate so-called “head shops” on our high streets which sell the paraphernalia (snorters, pipes, rolling paper, scales) used to consume them [Observer, UK]

Tags: pressuk   Date: 26 Apr 09

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