Drug News

METH – USA
Midtown meth fight looks for leadership – Arizona Daily Star
Over the past year, the Dodge Flower Neighborhood Association has received national attention for its fight against the meth use and related crime that have plagued its streets.

METH – USA
Grants available to fight meth, tobacco use – Honolulu Advertiser
The first of several meetings for nonprofit organizations interested in applying for grants for tobacco prevention and cessation will be held today in Hilo on the Big Island.

ALCOHOL – USA
Ads Against Drinking Speak Only Faintly – The New York Times
The amount of money spent by alcohol companies on television advertising grew by nearly a third from 2001 to 2005, rising from $780 million to more than $1 billion. But at the same time, liquor companies shaved about $2 million from their yearly spending on public service ads.

CANADA – CANNABIS
Canada ranked fifth in cannabis use, UN report says – 680 News
Canadians use marijuana at four times the world average, making Canada the leader of the industrialized world in cannabis consumption.

MARIJUANA – CANADA
Canada enjoys marijuana, like, a lot – National Post
The 2007 World Drug Report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says that 16.8 per cent of Canadians aged 15 to 64 smoked marijuana or used another cannabis product in 2006. The world average is 3.8 per cent.

ALCOHOL – UK
Youth organisation calls for increase in tax on alcohol – Belefast Telegraph
A leading youth organisation has called on the government to raise taxes on alcohol in an effort to cut alcohol abuse.

METH – AUSTRALIA
Putting cause and effect on ice to work on solutions – The Sydney Morning Herald
Ice’s ability to invoke hostility appears strongly related to this drug-induced paranoia. Users of the drug become hostile towards people because they feel paranoid, and think people are giving them a hard time or may hurt them.