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Welcoming the publication of the Health Committee’s Stage 1 Report for the Alcohol Bill yesterday [Thursday 27 May 2010], Dr Brian Keighley, Chairman of the BMA in Scotland, said: “This report provides a thorough and detailed description of the evidence given to the Health Committee…
Guidance on children and young people's alcohol issues has been released this month by the London Joint Action Group (JAG) on alcohol.
Filed in Guidance, Harm Reduction, UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged children, Guidance, including-first, london-alcohol, london-guidance, london-joint, sharing, substance misuse, treatment, treatment-exit, young people
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Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have produced the first evidence that the opioid blocker extended-release injectable naltrexone (XR-NTX) is able to reduce the brain’s response to cues that may cause alcoholics to relapse…
Commenting on new alcohol statistics published by the NHS Information Centre, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: “The amount of people drinking to excess continues to be a serious and widespread concern.
The Wall Street Journal: “Fourteen states plus the District of Columbia have passed laws intended to give certain ill people legal access to medical marijuana. But, in many instances, municipalities are left to figure out how to implement state laws that are often vague when it comes to the day-to-day operations of the medical-pot business…
Filed in Uncategorized
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Tagged district, figure-out, figure-out-how, ill-people, implement-state, laws-intended, medical, street, street-journal, the-day-to-day, the-medical-pot
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Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) announced that the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for VIVITROL® (naltrexone for extended-release injectable suspension) for opioid dependence has been designated a priority review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Toxicologists across the country are sounding the alarm about a contaminant increasingly found in cocaine that is impairing cocaine users’ immune systems, subjecting them to various infections and, in some cases, causing death. The U.S.
Filed in Uncategorized, cocaine
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Tagged across-the-country, alarm, cocaine, country, drug-used, enforcement, estimates-some, immune-systems, some-cases, sounding-the-alarm, the-country
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An increase in the number of injection drug users (IDUs) in eastern and southern Africa stands to harm efforts to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region, warned experts gathered at the World Forum Against Drug conference in Sweden on Monday, Agence France-Presse reports…
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Tagged africa, agence, aids, harm-efforts, hiv / aids, injection-drug, monday, region, spread, sweden, the-number, warned-experts, world, world-forum
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