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Fla.’s Jackson Health System Struggles With Nursing Home And Hospital Losses; Advocates Push Marijuana Cultivation In Calif.

The Miami Herald: As the Jackson Health System’s “governing board prepares to vote Monday on a proposed budget for 2011, its two money-losing nursing homes stand as a symbol for the challenges the system faces as it attempts to cut losses.

2 Programmes Focus On Addiction Awareness And Control

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) the study designed the two programmes and examined their effectiveness in helping excessive drinkers reduce their drinking. The AACTP and LEAP programmes address the challenges faced by excessive drinkers, including a preoccupation with drinking made worse by alcohol-related stimuli around them…

Security, development and human rights: Normative, legal and policy challenges for the international drug control system

Abstract: This commentary addresses some of the challenges posed by the broader normative, legal and policy framework of the United Nations for the international drug control system. The ‘purposes and principles’ of the United Nations are presented and set against the threat based rhetoric of the drug control system and the negative consequences of that system

Methods for comparing drug policies—The utility of composite Drug Harm Indexes

Abstract: One of the challenges for drug policy research is being able to compare policy options and outcomes.

Methods for comparing drug policies—The utility of composite Drug Harm Indexes

Abstract: One of the challenges for drug policy research is being able to compare policy options and outcomes. The development of indexes, such as the UK Drug Harm Index or the UNODC Illicit Drug Index is a way to systematically enable such comparisons