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WSHH Latest Hip Hop & Urban Media N (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
MSDrama reports "G-Dep opens up to Ms. Drama about his current drug addiction to PCP and how he hit rock bottom. He talks about getting dropped from Bad-Boy, what Diddy said to him and his desire to get back on track with his music. G-Dep also opens up about his feelings on drug rehab, Black Rob, and his current dealings with Diddy"
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The NHS is threatening to stop using current drug equipment in a bid to get firms to start making safer devices.
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Obesity and the Salt Connection (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
BBC News reports that t he NHS, prompted by the National Patient Safety Agency, is threatening to stop using current drug equipment in a bid to get firms to start making safer devices. They want to see an end to universal syringe connectors which can be used for jabs into both the vein and spine. Wayne Jowett's parents have been campaigning about this since the terrible suffering and...
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Government and Taxes (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
There was this news report last Thursday from Nature magazine. http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2009/091119/full/nj7271-375e.html Published in Nature 462, 375 (18 November 2009) | 10.1038/nj7271-375e Huge cuts by drug firms R&D closure is the latest in a series of hits to drug companies. Pfizer is closing 35% of its global research and development space, according to a 9 November...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
• Chairman describes player's action and lies as 'regrettable' • Official had 'frank conversation' with former world No1 Adam Helfant, the ATP chairman, has confirmed that the governing body will not be re-investigating Andre Agassi's positive drugs test in 1997 and cannot impose retrospective sanctions. In his recent autobiography Agassi admitted that after testing positive for crystal...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Transform , a UK think tank and drug reform organization, released a new book today, After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation. The executive summary is here (pdf.) As to Transform: Transform’s vision is a world in which the War on Drugs is over, and effective and humane systems of drug regulation have been established. Its "medium term goals": To...
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Later On (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Drug Policy Alliance is currently seeking signatures on a petition to ask the current Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, to create an exit strategy for the drug war. I support this: actually ending the drug war will clearly require a plan, and the Drug Czar is the guy who should come up with it. I [...]
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
`The Christian Institute’ In the wake of the sacking of drugs adviser David Nutt, a drug harm expert has spoken out in defence of current drugs law. Home Secretary Alan Johnson sacked Professor Nutt for “crossing the line” between offering advice and “campaigning against” Government decisions. His action has received the backing...
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Giles McNeill (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A senior Liberal Democrat councillor from Lincolnshire has come under fire after saying that drug possession should start to be legalised. The mother of a 15-year-old girl from Lincoln who almost died after a suspected drugs overdose blasted county councillor John Marriott's comments as 'rubbish'. Councillors, the city's MP, the Home Office and a senior lawyer have all lined up to attack...
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The Christian Institute (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
In the wake of the sacking of drugs adviser David Nutt, a drug harm expert has spoken out in defence of current drugs law. Home Secretary Alan Johnson sacked Professor Nutt for “crossing the line” between offering advice and “campaigning against” Government decisions. His action has received the backing of a high profile expert on drug...
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Prisonmovement's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By Peter Schrag Columnist California Progress Report A half generation after California began the national swing to legalizing the medical use of marijuana, the Golden State is becoming the central front in the drive to legalize, regulate and tax recreational and all other adult uses of the drug. Last week, Tom Ammiano, the San Francisco Democrat who chairs the [...]
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Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
I think the most depressing thing about this whole latest drugs policy farago is that it is looking like things will not be any better if the Conservatives get in after the next election. Every time there is a story about drugs, the government will pop up with what it perceives as tough rhetoric about needing to "crack down" and "tighten up" etc. But...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
By , Home Affairs EditorPublished: 6:18PM GMT 30 Oct 2009 Professor Nutt was told to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse Drugs Photo: UPPA Professor Nutt was told to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse Drugs (ACMD) after a series of controversial outbursts including accusing ministers of ignoring scientific evidence to distort the drugs...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
BEIJING, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Lotus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LTUS) ("Lotus" or the "Company") a growing developer and producer of prescriptions drugs and licensed national seller of pharmaceutical products in the People's Republic China, today reported it will exhibit at the 62nd PHARMCHINA as a member of the Beijing pharmaceutical...
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Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The ATP have confirmed they will not be reinvestigating Andre Agassi's positive drugs test in 1997.
