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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. Read More...
I'm just about 100% certain that I am not descended from two
giant lizards that leapt from a visiting spacecraft aeons ago but, then again, I
am also certain that autism exists. Read More...
The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse heroin is
expected today to press for a roll-out of heroin shooting galleries . Read More...
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. Read More...
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. Read More...
All hail the reduction in alcohol-related deaths. All hail -
or should that be inhale? - the efforts to cut cannabis use. Read More...
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. Read More...
A curious reclassification of cannabis and ecstasy could be
under way. Read More...
Hospital admissions for serious conditions related to
alcohol have doubled in the past 10 years but a report reveals that a quarter
of primary care trusts have failed to fully assess misuse in their areas. Read More...
The latest drug treatment data are published today and it
looks like the methods are failing. Read More...
An old practice of dealing inhumanely with rough sleepers
is creeping back on to our streets. Read More...
The UK's war on drugs is costing nearly as much as the
war in Iraq. And like the war in that far-distant land of which we think we
know so much, the one on our doorsteps has similarly little to show for the
billions poured into it. Read More...