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The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse heroin is
expected today to press for a roll-out of heroin shooting galleries . Read More...
You may remember PY Gerbeau : professional Frenchman, committed Anglophile, the former EuroDisney chief who saved the Millennium Dome. Read More...
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? 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...
Was it as long ago as three-and-a-half years that the
British Beer and Pub Association announced a ban on happy hours ? Read More...
With all the excitement of global economic slumps and
derring-do rescues, it is easy to overlook the way we continue to treat the
most vulnerable. 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...
By Mike McNabb On holiday recently, the wife of my oldest friend presented
us with a quartet of superb cigars from the Dominican Republic. The box assured
us, in a typesize normally seen on the pages of red-top newspapers, that the
contents would cause...