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The government wants to halve the number of cigarette users, infuriating the tobacco industry and diehard smokers [Guardian, UK]
The more you try to ratchet up public anxiety in hopes of protecting a few by misinforming the many, the more the public’s indifference to official information is ratcheted up in response. Yes, heroin kills; speed kills; carelessness kills. But by robbing warnings of their authority, you rob authority of its power to warn. Drugs do kill; but exaggeration kills too [Times, UK]
Sadly it seems the grand plan involves going after the addicts, while leaving the peddlers alone [Guardian Editorial, UK]
Government climbs down over use of alcohol, gambling and junk food brands after opposition from cabinet ministers [Guardian, UK]
Campaigners condemned the publication yesterday of research which suggests that heroin can be taken over a long period without destroying people’s lives [Guardian, UK]
The Tories’ ‘cure, don’t manage’ orthodoxy on drug addiction replaces pragmatism with a moral imperative [Guardian, UK]
A retired police officer and the proprietor of an organic eatery make an odd couple when it comes to trying to overturn marijuana laws in this tiny state, but Jack Cole and Josh Miller are giving it their best shot [Wall Street Journal, USA]
We’ve listened to them, and now half of crack users achieve abstinence within six months [Paul Hayes, Guardian, UK]
British travellers have been warned not to get involved with drugs abroad, as figures show a large number of those detained are accused of drugs offences [BBC, UK]
A big drop in assaults, police call-outs and emergency hospital admissions in Halls Creek has made Western Australia’s government more determined to support alcohol restrictions in the remote town once described as the Gaza Strip of the Kimberley [The Australia]
As a result, substances that are useless — and sometimes worse — fill doctors’ prescription pads, not least in the field of psychiatric medicine, where whole categories of “disorder” have been dreamed up in order that they be medicated [Sunday Times, UK]
City paramedics say they spend at least half their Friday and Saturday nights treating vomit-soaked drunks. They say increasing binge drinking and drug use is putting added pressure on stressed emergency services [Adelaide Now, Australia]
Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse [Newsweek, USA]
The health secretary, Andy Burnham, now favours extending the 2007 landmark law which banned smoking in pubs, workplaces and other enclosed places, to prevent non-smokers having to walk through clouds of secondhand smoke [Guardian, UK]
A drugs advisory body has launched a petition against an annual Welsh language youth festival’s plan to sell drink to visitors for the first time [BBC, UK]
It’s chemically similar to illegal amphetamine and costs a fraction of the price of cocaine, but campaigners say mephedrone could pose even graver health risks [The Scotsman, UK]
A report exposing the spreading opium fields in the north-eastern corner of the military-ruled Burma has brought to light an equally revealing story. It was produced by a team of ethnic women who risked their lives to document the heroin-filled world they inhabit [IPS News]
The Government’s $6million extra for child protection will increase the number of public servants rather than tackling the problem [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
The latest confirmed case was a drug user who died on 12 December – the earliest death linked to the outbreak, although the connection has only just been proven [The Scotsman, UK]
Doctors are calling for a ban on the latest “legal high” craze to sweep Scotland – the plant food mephedrone [Herald Scotland, UK]
