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August 31, 2009: DEATH BY DIVERSITY?
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WORKING WITH THE LGBT COMMUNITY Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender services are a rarity, reports Sarah Graham. At the same time, where gay clubs go, straight ones usually follow – and they are succumbing to crystal meth. Back in 1992 on an OutRage! demo...

August 31, 2009: LEGISLATING FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY
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MAKE THE LAW WORK FOR YOU Are the much-lamented addiction-treatment structures in the NHS lawful? UK Advocates has sought legal advice on improving treatment and access to it– and is about to apply for a judicial review. Robert Beckett makes...

August 29, 2009: OFFICIAL FIGURES VINDICATE ADDICTION TODAY
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ADDICTION TODAY MARCH 2009 ARTICLE DEMONSTRABLY TRUE, AS OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS & ST GEORGE’S UNIVERSITY SHOW DRUG DEATHS AT 8-YEAR HIGH A few months ago, senior management at the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse wrote scathing letters reprimanding...

August 26, 2009: DRUG POISONING DEATHS AT 8-YEAR HIGH
Comments: 2 | Categories: Research
HEROIN, MORPHINE AND METHADONE ARE THE MOST-CITED SUBSTANCES Deaths relating to drug poisoning – both legal and illegal drugs – have risen to their highest level since 2001, the year the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse was founded, reveal...

August 16, 2009: FIRST-EVER UK RECOVERY MARCH
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"Celebrating our right to be happy joyous and free!" FIRST-EVER UK RECOVERY MARCH HAPPENED ON SATURDAY! What: Rally Date: 26 September at 6pm Host: Sharp Liverpool and Spider Project Start Where: Liverpool To see more details, click Facebook here. Scroll...

August 4, 2009: START YOUR OWN DEBATE
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August 4, 2009: "MIXED MESSAGES ON DRINK AND DRUGS ARE THE ROAD TO SOCIAL RUIN"
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" Law enforcement has been undermined by mixed and confusing signals. The latest such muddle surfaced last week in a report by a body styling itself the UK Drug Policy Commission. This said that, since the UK drug market can...

August 4, 2009: LEGALISATION WILL ENSLAVE PEOPLE
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by 'D' in recovery (name and address supplied) " I remember reading Theodore Dalrymple's piece when I was just in to my own recovery - and it helped change my views on legalisation, particularly where he talks about the 'enslavement'...

August 4, 2009: "THE UKDPC 'SMART' ENFORCEMENT PROPOSALS AMOUNT TO LEGALISATION BY THE BACK DOOR"
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"Last week brought a new twist to the myth that law enforcement - hyperbolically designated as 'prohibition' by the pro drugs lobby - rather than drug use itself is the root of the country's drug problem," writes Kathy Gyngell in...