Minimum alcohol pricing? It can only be a positive move, particularly with the increasing problem of alcohol abuse among younger people...can't it?
Continue reading Would minimum alcohol pricing let in drugs trade?.
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In June, Outside Left expressed relief that Project Prevention had watered down its plans to reward drug misusers who have themselves permanently sterilised with a £200 thank-you. That relief was misplaced.
Continue reading £200 for drug addicts to be sterilised. Good or bad?.
Sometimes a campaign just feels wrong. That can be said about Project Prevention's attempt to sterilise drug misusers in the UK, using a £200 bribe.
Continue reading Unethical drugs group forced to climb down.
Perhaps it is because my teenage years lie somewhere over a far-away hill, but I had not heard of mephedrone until a year ago.
Continue reading Mephedrone: Does banning achieve anything?.
This is the best excuse yet for a night out. MPs, led Labour's Keith Vaz, are looking for the "best club" in London for cocaine use.
Continue reading MPs club together for a drugs run.
The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse heroin is expected today to press for a roll-out of heroin shooting galleries.
Continue reading Heroin shooting galleries off target in one respect.
It is Broken Britain week at Conservative Party HQ, with shadow home secretary Chris Grayling attempting to remind us how bad things have become. And he mentioned political correctness only once.
Continue reading Tories offer no answers in Broken Britain week.
I have seldom been one for giving money to beggars. If I were a commuter at Tulse Hill station I would be even less inclined.
Continue reading Would you give money to a beggar? Think again.
The first few frames of the TV advert launched this week to warn about the dangers of cannabis use made me wonder whether it would be worth finding a dealer and having a few puffs myself.
Continue reading Is cannabis campaign money well spent?.
All hail the reduction in alcohol-related deaths. All hail - or should that be inhale? - the efforts to cut cannabis use.
Continue reading Drink statistics and drug policy addling my brain.
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