June 3, 2008 Drug Addiction News
DRUGS – UK
Shock Cost Of Drug Addiction – Daily Record
THE cost of Scotland’s drug addicts is alarming, incredible and disgraceful at the same time. Every addict costs the country £50,000 a year. That amounts to £2.6billion - almost 10 per cent of the Scottish government’s annual £30billion budget.
ALCOHOL – UK
Alcohol ban comes into force – This is Hertfordshire
Boris Johnson’s alcohol ban on the capital’s Tubes and buses will come into force this weekend. Drinking from and carrying open containers of alcohol will be prohibited from Sunday.
ALCOHOL – UK
Alcohol ban plan to cut problems – BBC News
Drinkers who cause trouble in Pitlochry could find themselves banned from buying alcohol practically everywhere in the town.
ALCOHOL – USA
Driving home the dangerous mix of teens and alcohol – Foster’s Daily Democrat
The forum was co-sponsored by the Portsmouth School Department and Police Department in response to the recently released Youth Risk Behavior Survey and the ever-increasing number of arrests for underage drinking and parties.
ADDICTION – CANADA
An irrational and stupid drug policy – Ottawa Citizen
The government’s handling of drug policy is so ignorant and foolish it is a challenge to explain why in a newspaper column. To expound on stupidity of this magnitude requires a very long book.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health, will convene a 2-day conference to explore how the latest scientific findings in drug abuse can fill the current gap between research and clinical treatment practices.
METH – USA
Burnt by Ice – The Star
Crystal methamphetamin is currectly a popular drug among youths. WHEN May had her first puff of Ice, she never thought that she would be addicted to the substance, which looks exactly like table salt.
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