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[…] had used some form of drug. The Irish Times, 2 March Cr ystal meth is becoming more widely available in London, according to a judge. Mixed with cocaine and skunk many people are unaware that they are taking it, which may be an attempt to get people hooked, says District Judge, Justin Phillips. Sitting […]

[…] of deaths, and men accounted for more than two thirds of overall deaths. While just under half of fatalities involved an opiate, the number of deaths involving cocaine was up by almost 10 per cent to 777 – more than five times the figure from a decade ago. The rate of drug poisoning deaths in […]

[…] about the consequences of the Scots’ Benzo policy that has encouraged a huge black market? What about the teens in the M25 corridor who are learning about cocaine – how long before they learn about how, to quote Lou Reed, ‘Valium would have helped that crash’, and that uppers are always followed by downers? […]

[…] to the Crime and justice survey 2008-09on self-reported ‘last month, last year and lifetime’ use of drugs. Use of cannabis was declining, according to the survey, but cocaine use – after cannabis, the most commonly reported drug used in the month and year prior to the interview – had remained stable. The survey also […]

[…] the latest OHID figures, around half of people in treatment are smokers, but less than 5 per cent have even been offered a smoking cessation referral (www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/ten-per-cent-increase-in-people-entering-treatment-for- cocaine).  ‘There is a massive mismatch,’ says MacKintosh. ‘Think about dual diagnosis. We’ve been banging on about this for a quarter of a century, but often it’s […]

[…] from ‘brilliant’ to ‘reading this has ruined my day’.   JUNE EMCDDA’s annual European drug report identifies the UK as among the biggest consumers in a ‘buoyant’ cocaine market, with purity levels at their highest for a decade, while Kevin Flemen wonders in DDN if the recent growth in crack use indicates a move […]

[…] drugs. Although 45 per cent supported the decriminalisation of cannabis and 28 per cent magic mushrooms, just 17 per cent supported decriminalising MDMA and 15 per cent cocaine. The figures for heroin and crack cocaine were 11 and 10 per cent respectively. More than half of respondents, however, backed the introduction of consumption rooms, […]

[…] clearly the group most at risk of encountering fentanyls. However, they have cropped up in place of other products including benzodiazepines and stimulants such as MDMA or cocaine in the UK and Europe, and sold internationally mixed with crack cocaine. Becoming more widespread could impact not solely on heroin users, but people using any […]

[…] as few errors as they could. Ever y completed challenge earned points, and used different Ben ‘It showed me ways of enjoying myself without taking cannabis or cocaine’ I found it really exciting. It was interesting learning new skills and I liked the teamwork. I feel I've achieved something and learnt things I wouldn't […]

[…] taking their eye off the ball when it comes to steroids? ‘I don’t think so,’ he states. ‘I think the movement away from just opiates and crack cocaine to this much wider area encompassing both enhancement drugs and the novel psychoactives isn’t to the detriment of either. It’s important that we don’t take our […]

[…] the  ‘evil  dealers’  who  sell  them.  Since  cannabis  can unpredictably  send  you  mad  for  life,  I  can’t  see  why  it  is  any  less serious  than  heroin  or  cocaine.  But  if  the  authorities  have  been ‘freed up’, they haven’t taken much advantage of their freedom. Peter Hitchens,  Mail on Sunday, 3 September Here is just one small emblem of the ignorance or callousness of current  policy  making.  Yesterday’s  public  accounts  committee report warns of chaos in the new universal credit for families. In the  fantasy  realm  of  this  policy,  b0  per  […]

[…] are invested in well-targeted activities of proven effectiveness.’ The report also highlights ‘an increasingly complex’ stimulant market with a ‘wide variety of powders and pills’, and where cocaine, amphetamines and ecstasy increasingly compete with new synthetic drugs. These continue to be reported at the rate of around one per week, with more than 50 […]

[…] 40-49 age group. Although deaths from ‘most opioids’ have remained steady, fentanyl-related deaths have continued to rise – to 75, from 58 in 2016 – while deaths related to cocaine have now increased for six consecutive years. There were 432 cocaine-related deaths in 2017, up from 371 the previous year. The number of deaths related to […]

[…] – a consequent reduction of the 80,000 annual tobacco-related deaths by 4,000. By comparison, around 1,000 deaths a year are estimated to be attributable to heroin or cocaine, and research published in The Lancetrated tobacco as the most harmful of all drugs for ‘chronic physical harm’ (DDN, 6 October, page 6).Smuggled tobacco products are […]

[…] In particular, the HIV prevalence has been rising since 2002 among those who have been injecting for less than three years. Increasing evidence suggests that injecting crack cocaine is a major factor. The report also found that while levels of HIV remain high among current IDUs in London, with around one in 25 infected, […]

[…] herself with a glamorous career as a successful model, which opened up opportunities as a TV presenter. Alongside the lifestyle and heavy drinking she developed a serious cocaine habit, ‘mainly to keep awake as I was also running a nightclub. I had too many jobs, too much money and not enough time in the […]

[…] few years, tackling the problem of synthetic drug manufacture and use will pose problems that are very different from those associated with plant based drugs like heroin, cocaine and cannabis, says the report. One is difficulty of measurement, as there are no cultivated fields visible from the air, another is the ease with which […]

[…] their own cycle of addition. A campaign film and a series of posters can be viewed at www.whatdoyouknowcampaign.blog spot.com Decriminalisation plan Think tank Transform has suggested that cocaine could be sold in pharmacies and cannabis in coffee shops as part of a scheme to decriminalise drugs, while reducing crime and improving health. A new […]

[…] a 16 per cent increase in fatalities involving heroin and morphine and a 35 per cent increase in deaths involving methadone on the previous year. Deaths involving cocaine and amphetamines also rose, and the DAT areas of Blackpool, Brighton and Hove and Camden have consistently had the highest drug misuse mortality rates. According to […]

[…] people. ‘With the right support from local authorities, the NHS and other partners, specialist substance misuse services can continue to focus on what they do best: ensuring that young people who need  help get it quickly and that they receive appropriate, personalised support,’  said PHE.  News CQC CONSULTATION THE CARE QUALITY COMMISSION is consulting on its proposed changes to the way substance misuse services are regulated. The proposals aim to make sure that services are ‘safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well-led’ (DDN, October b014, page 4). The consultation is open until 19 March, with the new regime due to start from April. bonsultation link at www.cqc.org.uk  MOBILE DRUG TESTS THE FIRST MOBILE DRUb-TESTINb device has been granted type approval and is available for purchase by UK police forces. The Securetec DrugWipe 3S – known as ‘Drugwipe’ – can detect the presence of cocaine or cannabis within eight minutes by analysing saliva, after which those testing positive can be taken to the police station for a blood test. ‘Drug drivers are a deadly menace and must be stopped,’ said policing minister Mike Penning. ‘Those who get behind the wheel while under the influence of drugs not only put their own lives at risk, but also those of innocent pedestrians, motorists and their passengers.’ PLAIN TOBACCO PACKAGING THE bOVERNMENT has announced that it backs the case for standardised packaging for tobacco products, with MPs set to vote on the issue before the election. If passed, the regulations could be in place by May next year, bringing the ‘prospect of our first smoke-free generation one step closer’ according to public health minister Jane Ellison.  DRINKS INDUSTRY UNTRUSTWORTbY THE DRINKS INDUSTRY ‘can’t be trusted’ to promote safer drinking and is ‘undermining its own pledges’ to encourage it, according to […]

[…] It would be hard to imagine a less deserving case for free healthcare than Callie, a US citizen who was jailed in 2007 for supplying heroin and cocaine. I am sorry that he is said to be depressed and to suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure, but he was part of a trade […]

[…] 15 as we could get into pubs. I left boarding school and went to college for about a year. There, I started smoking cannabis. This led to cocaine use, but I never felt I was addicted. I started taking pills in my late teens too, but my drinking was not an issue at that […]

[…] support – Leo’s story I didn’t pick up my first drink until the age of 20 but from that point, I drank very heavily. In the mid-1990s, cocaine became part of my story as well and the consequences started to kick in. By 2000, I was completely out of control, barely hanging on to […]

[…] – success under any name is a triumph "Evidence for controlled heroin use "A road less travelled – Sweden’s pursuit of abstinence "The other side of the cocaine route – saving lives in Jamaica "Approaches to addiction series 5: Psychodynamic approaches to addiction Drugs And Alcohol Todayaims to bring readers the best in new […]

[…] 2013, page 15). ‘I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing,’ he says. ‘There have been suggestions that falls in the number of cocaine deaths could be attributed to people using mephedrone instead – perhaps it’s a safer stimulant. But because mortality monitoring is so unregulated, and because the hospital […]

[…] overdue.’ Meanwhile, the latest ONS figures show no change in overall drug use or class A drug use in England and Wales over the last year. Powder cocaine continues to be the second most commonly used drug after cannabis, although the proportion of frequent users fell from 14.4 per cent to 8.7 per cent. […]

[…] Teeside will be dressing up as support worker Snow White, drug dealer the wicked witch and seven dwarves Moody (steroids),Stoney (cannabis), Easy (ecstasy), Speedy (amphetamines), Snorty ( cocaine), Dizzy (alcohol) and Snoozy (prescription drugs). ‘We thought that by giving the Snow White story a thought-provoking twist more young people would take note of important […]

[…] consider what might be coming our way. Denmark’s population of 5.6m includes an estimated 17,000 injecting drug users, principally using opiates but with an increasing use of cocaine. National statistics for drug-related deaths, collected by the police since 1970, and by the health service since 1995, show that since 2000 there have been around […]

[…] – success under any name is a triumph "Evidence for controlled heroin use "A road less travelled – Sweden’s pursuit of abstinence "The other side of the cocaine route – saving lives in Jamaica "Approaches to addiction series 5: Psychodynamic approaches to addiction Drugs And Alcohol Todayaims to bring readers the best in new […]

[…] blunt to just put it out there, but I had 3 failed attempts at ending my life. The route of these attempts was a severe addiction to cocaine. I had been using some form of stimulant from the age of 16 where I was supplied with vitamins as a professional rugby player. My game […]

[…] will not be sympathetic Scottish Government ministers, but sceptical European legal experts. Neil McKeganey, Scotsman, 7 September A mother who paid £300 for a dozen packets of cocaine as a birthday present for her daughter’s 18th has been spared jail. Nicola Austen, 37, with six previous drugs convictions, expected to be sent to prison […]

[…] known as nitazenes, have adulterated a number of illicit drugs in the UK. It’s not clear exactly when this began, but evidence of them being present in cocaine and heroin was detected in 2021. Nitazenes are broadly equipotent to the fentanyls – or in layman’s terms, they’re many times stronger than heroin and morphine. […]

[…] The aim is to educate people to make their own choices, says the charity. ‘Substances that are taken in a predominantly recreational context, like novel psychoactive substances, cocaine, steroids and alcohol, place a heavy burden on the health system,’ said director of operations for substance misuse, Jay Stewart. ‘This new guide aims to provide […]

[…] a world-class treatment and recovery system Achieve a shift in demand for recreational drugs The strategy rightly recognises that half of people dependent on opiates and crack cocaine are not in treatment, and that drug addiction co-occurs with a range of health inequalities, especially mental health issues, homelessness, and deprivation. An additional investment of […]

[…] the drug problem in a ‘state of flux’.  Positive developments regarding more traditional drugs – such as fewer new heroin users, less injecting and declining use of cocaine and cannabis in some parts of the continent – continue to be offset by concerns around new psychoactive substances, says the agency’s annual report.  Seventy-three new […]

[…] part of every relationship I had because I had no idea how to have a healthy open relationship,” Tina said. Eventually she started using heroin and crack cocaine. Decades later, now in recovery and working as a volunteer in her drug treatment service, Tina identifies being around other women as important to her journey. […]

[…] the drug problem in a ‘state of flux’. Positive developments regarding more traditional drugs – such as fewer new heroin users, less injecting and declining use of cocaine and cannabis in some parts of the continent – continue to be offset by concerns around new psychoactive substances, says the agency’s annual report. Seventy-three new psychoactive […]

[…] Oregon’s drug policy attracted national and international attention Oregon’s landmark Measure 110, which was passed in November 2020, made the personal possession of all drugs including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine subject to no more than a $100 fine (https://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/campaigners-hail-monumental-victory-for-us-drug-policy-reform/). However, new legislation has been signed off by the state’s governor, Tina Kotek, recriminalising drug […]

[…] magnitude of the offence’. Offences related to crack dealing, which has been largely confined to America’s black community, have historically attracted far more severe punishments than comparable crimes involving powder cocaine, and one in nine black children in the US now has an incarcerated parent, compared to one in 57 white children. More at globalgrind.com/endthewarondrugs

[…] exemplified by the late Eva Rausing, from a billionaire family, who only received a caution in 2008 for the possession of 2.5g of heroin and 60g of cocaine. Avinash Tharoor, Independent, 2 October In many ways, alcohol is the new tobacco. It is a multibillion-dollar international industry dealing with market-friendly governments, enjoying virtually unrestricted […]

[…] established drug and alcohol detoxification and residential rehabilitation centre located in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The centre provides adult in-patient treatment for substance abuse and dependence including alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, heroin, opiates, legal highs and prescription drugs. Our therapy approach is focussed on helping you address your dependence on drugs or alcohol and empowering you […]

[…] series of online harm reduction advice, including on safer injecting, responding to an overdose, using naloxone correctly, and safer use of other drugs such powder and crack cocaine and steroids. It also offers advice to those worried about someone else’s drug use.  NSP services were ‘often the first step on the road to accessing […]

[…] not to mention the money spent trying in vain to control them. Drug barons are always one step ahead of the law. Those looking for heroin or cocaine can easily obtain it, at a price. But how would we prevent the ugly side effects of legalisation, particularly a likely increase in experimentation, paranoia and […]

[…] (DDN, September, page 4). Although the government is keen to stress that the figures come against a background of falling rates of overall drug use, deaths involving cocaine also reached an all time high at 320 – up from 247 the previous year. Deaths involving amphetamine also reached their highest-ever level, and those involving […]

[…] sought help for cannabis as their main problem drug, and more than 4,700 for alcohol, while ‘historic low’ figures for young people needing help for heroin or cocaine – 175 and 245 respectively – were offset by increasing numbers having problems with amphetamines, mephedrone and other new psychoactive substances. ‘Young people’s alcohol and drug […]

[…] (DDN, September, page 4). Although the government is keen to stress that the figures come against a background of falling rates of overall drug use, deaths involving cocaine also reached an all time high at 320 – up from 247 the previous year. Deaths involving amphetamine also reached their highest-ever level, and those involving […]

[…] first entered treatment at 19, the beginning of a long period of being ‘in and out’ of services, he says. ‘Once I started using heroin and crack cocaine it was initially a matter of me saying, “I can stop if I want to stop” but it soon became apparent that it wasn’t going to […]

[…] at least once by the age of 17, according to research by UCL’s Centre for Longitudinal Studies, while 10 per cent have tried drugs such as MDMA, cocaine, LSD and amphetamines. More than half of 17-year-olds said they had engaged in binge drinking – defined as five or more drinks in one session – […]

[…] Szalavitz about her newly published thoughts on addiction. This is an extract from their conversation First Szalavitz described her own experiences, experimenting with psychedelics, then becoming addicted to cocaine and heroin. Johann Hari: ‘Usually when someone tells this publicly, they say “Society tells me what a disgusting wicked person I  was – and then I […]

[…] is this the age of the young puritan?’ asked the Guardian last month. ‘Why drugs are no longer cool: teenagers are internet addicts while their parents snort cocaine,’ offered the Telegraph. The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s latest figures on falling rates of drug and drink consumption among secondary school pupils (see news […]

[…] known as nitazenes, have adulterated a number of illicit drugs in the UK. It’s not clear exactly when this began, but evidence of them being present in cocaine and heroin was detected in 2021.   Nitazenes are broadly equipotent to the fentanyls – or in layman’s terms, they’re many times stronger than heroin and morphine. […]

[…] of all drugs for personal use. The state’s electorate voted ‘yes’ to Oregon Measure 110, which supports making ‘personal non-commercial possession of a controlled substance’ – including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine – subject to no more than a $100 fine, as well as establishing a treatment and recovery programme financed in part by revenue from the […]

[…] been calling for a reduction in the maximum permitted stake for years (DDN, September 2014, page 6), with the controversial terminals frequently referred to as the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’. The move relates to ‘category B2’ FOBT machines, which are mainly located in betting shops, and follows a consultation with the public and the […]