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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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?.
It was a proposal that attracted the predictable response that it wouldn't work, it couldn't be enforced. But, slowly, more people are agreeing that a way will have to be found to introduce and police minimum pricing for alcohol.
Continue reading Call for minimum alcohol pricing gathers momentum.
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.
You may remember PY Gerbeau: professional Frenchman, committed Anglophile, the former EuroDisney chief who saved the Millennium Dome.
Continue reading A French view of British binge drinkers.
How should we react to shoplifters? Is it a crime or is it symptomatic of something else: a mental illness or a substance addiction perhaps, as this personal account on the Frank website describes?
Continue reading Shoplifting bill recognises social issues.
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.
Charity DrugScope reports a worrying trend that young people are taking increasing risks with a drug that is used to tranquilise horses. But a study has thrown up a question on whether its classification is correct.
Continue reading Ketamine is harder than a Class C drug.
A curious reclassification of cannabis and ecstasy could be under way.
Continue reading Are cannabis and ecstasy really in the same class?.
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