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Please Mr President
[…] 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
Media savvy
[…] 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 […]
Linwood House
[…] 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 […]
News in brief
[…] challenge was to ‘keep pace with this growing problem, while continuing to meet the demands of more established substance misuse problems associated with alcohol, heroin and crack cocaine’, said Owen Boden-Jones of CNWL’s club drug clinic. Report at www.rcpsych.ac.uk Hep feedback A global patient survey to reveal how hepatitis C is treated around the world […]
Playing the long game
[…] pubs and clubs and I married a barmaid. She’s part of my story, and I’m part of hers. Her drug of choice at the time was crack cocaine. I knew she took a little bit but over the six years we were together it developed. It was a very volatile relationship – we were […]
DDN0505
[…] Like many market towns, Bur y and Newmarket have ver y strong night time economies, with all the attendant problems of alcohol misuse, and anecdotal evidence suggests cocaine use is on the rise. There is also a growing heroin problem. ‘It used to be that you couldn’t get heroin in Bur y, but that’s […]
Northern Ireland records highest drug death total
[…] recorded in 2018 involved three or more drugs, with 115 mentioning an opioid on the death certificate. More than 40 per cent mentioned diazepam, while deaths involving cocaine rose from just 13 in 2017 to 28, the highest level recorded. The number of deaths mentioning pregabalin has also risen significantly, up from nine in […]
Having a ball
[…] you forget there is a life outside of it; you need to remember you can enjoy yourself.’ Daniel, 25, is in recovery from an alcohol and crack cocaine addiction that began in 2007. He knew his attachment to crack came at a price, but it wasn’t until four years had passed and Daniel had […]
Tailored treatment needed for prescription drug misuse, says ACMD
[…] adds, while ‘unethical’ online sales of prescription drugs via unregistered pharmacies are also increasing, with some people using prescription drugs to manage the comedown from stimulants like cocaine. Alongside prescription opioids, the most commonly diverted drug types are benzodiazepines and ‘Z drugs’, as well as pregabalin, gabapentin and anti-psychotics. The report wants to see […]
Loaded dice?
[…] it backed by well-funded advertising campaigns. Earlier this year there was a high-profile controversy around fixed odds betting terminals (FOBT) – frequently referred to as ‘the crack cocaine of gambling’ – installed in bookmakers, with MPs calling for a reduction in the maximum amount it was possible to gamble on them in one go, […]
Survival strategies
[…] it didn’t count towards your key performance indicators that were linked to money. So I think we took our eye off the ball around things like powder cocaine in particular.’ All of this has been compounded by ‘decimation’ of funding for young people’s services, she points out. ‘Part of the problem is that few […]
A participant’s view: Highlights from the GPs’ conference
[…] provision of naloxone, but also to it being provided to prisoners on release. Prof David Nutt, former advisor to the ACMD, then talked about how opiate and cocaine-related deaths were at their highest ever, and that there was a need to push for allowing cannabis for medical use in England, as it was in […]
Is anyone in?
[…] that had ‘an enormous problem with space for housing’, where local landlords were increasingly reluctant to take people on housing benefit. The city had 2,000 heroin and cocaine users and although drug-related deaths were now falling, it had had the unenviable title of being ‘the drugs death capital of Britain’ for some time. ‘A […]
Almost half of MDMA sold at festivals last year was fake
[…] using less ecstasy since the beginning of the pandemic (https://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/europeans-using-more-cannabis-since-pandemic/). There have also been reports of traffickers into the UK focusing on smuggling more lucrative drugs like cocaine and heroin, for which the penalties are the same as the class A MDMA. The Loop recently launched the UK’s first ever Home Office-licensed drug testing […]
Open market
[…] was the only feasible crop to grow. As soon as the soldiers had moved on, he’d start planting coca in the next field. At the time, with cocaine use rocketing across much of the West, Power knew that what was happening in the Colombian field was indicative ofthe ‘relentless, circular, insane story’ of the […]
Media Savvy
[…] Norman, Independent, 3 June For a generation obsessed with all things ethical, isn’t it unethical to buy drugs when there’s so much baggage surrounding the trade?… with cocaine use on the rise in Britain – an estimated 3.6p per cent of millennials took the drug last year, well above the EU average – this […]
British Columbia launches ‘healthcare over handcuffs’ decriminalisation experiment
[…] seized, with police instead offering information on treatment and other support ‘with referrals when requested’. The exemption will cover opioids including heroin and fentanyl, powder and crack cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine. It will still be illegal to possess the drugs in schools, childcare facilities or airports, however, and the province will work with health […]
Average potency of cannabis resin in Europe up by 200 per cent in a...
[…] Malta and the Netherlands – have introduced or are planning to introduce approaches for regulating the supply of cannabis for recreational use, the report points out. ‘ Cocaine seizures might be grabbing the headlines, but trafficking of cannabis is just as important a threat,’ said Europol executive director Catherine De Bolle. ‘The cannabis trade […]
Government consults on proposals for new drug-driving offences
[…] drivers who had taken ‘properly prescribed’ medicines would not be penalised. The consultation sets out a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to driving under the influence of cannabis, MDMA, cocaine, ketamine, LSD, methamphetamine, benzoylecgonine, heroin and diamorphine, with limits set at the ‘lowest level at which a valid and reliable analytical level can be obtained’ but […]
Inside Out
[…] lonely – my husband worked a lot. My drinking pattern progressed and I became more depressed, then hooked on antidepressants from my GP. I had my first cocaine at 30 and it got progressively worse. I had three children when my husband asked me for a divorce. I was drinking in public toilets and […]
‘A national tragedy’ – Record drug fatalities for Scotland
[…] or potentially contributed to 74 deaths, only three were thought to have been caused by NPS alone. The figure for benzodiazepines, meanwhile, stood at 191 deaths and cocaine at 93. ‘The deaths are heavily concentrated in our poorest communities and if you look behind the lives of most people who have died you will […]
DDN_October_2023
[…] in treatment said they had problems with alcohol. Meanwhile, among 17-year- olds in the UK, one in 10 will have used harder drugs such as ketamine and cocaine, according to University College London research. FUNDAMENTAL DETERMINANTS Wider determinants of health â such as housing, education and employment opportunities, social support, and personal resilience â […]
Counsellor Acorn House 2 days
[…] Knowledge and Skills 4. An excellent understanding o f the complex needs and problems that confront those with a history of problematic substance misuse including crack cocaine (DANOS Unit AB2) 5. Knowledge and ability to plan, deliver and evaluate group work with substance users. (DANOS Unit AI3) 6. Ab le to […]
Scotland sees fall in injecting levels
[…] that has been largely unchanged since the start of the decade but is around a third of the level reported in 2006-07. The proportion of people reporting cocaine as their main drug, meanwhile, was 18 per cent, a percentage that has ‘increased sharply’ since 2015-16, albeit with a slight fall after 2019-20. Around two […]
Young people’s drug use could be 20 per cent higher than estimated
[…] of Bristol researchers matched data from questionnaires conducted when participants were 24 to corresponding national data and found that differences in lifetime use of cannabis and powder cocaine between the two was 23.2 per cent and 16.9 per cent respectively. Researchers also found that while just over 32 per cent of participants to the […]
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Young drug and alcohol consumption continues to fall
[…] to try drinking and a third thought it OK to try smoking, only 9 per cent thought it was OK to try cannabis and 2 per cent cocaine. The figures are based on a survey of more than 5,000 pupils in almost 200 schools across England. According to the 2012/13 Crime Survey for England […]
US drug deaths up by 15 per cent
[…] compared to just over 70,000 in 2020. There were more than 71,000 deaths involving fentanyl, as well as almost 33,000 involving methamphetamine and just over 24,500 involving cocaine – all up on the previous year – with overdose deaths increasing in every US state except Hawaii. The Biden administration recently launched its first drug strategy, […]
Gambling Addiction Guide
[…] made national headlines after the government cut the maximum stake it was possible to place on controversial fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) – often called the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’ – from £100 to £2, while a 2019 paper published in the BMJ argued for a revision of the 2005 Gambling Act to include […]
Record drug fatalities ‘a national tragedy’ for Scotland
[…] or potentially contributed to 74 deaths, only three were thought to have been caused by NPS alone. The figure for benzodiazepines, meanwhile, stood at 191 deaths and cocaine at 93. ‘The deaths are heavily concentrated in our poorest communities and if you look behind the lives of most people who have died you will […]
Review of the year 2020
[…] US presidential election also sees a ‘monumental victory’ for drug policy reform as Oregon votes in favour of decriminalising personal possession of all drugs, including heroin and cocaine. A year on from the launch of Middlesbrough’s heroin-assisted treatment pilot, clinical team lead Daniel Ahmed hails its ‘dramatic impact’, with 98 per cent attendance rates […]
Media Savvy
[…] is usually an expensive waste of time. But decriminalisation’s flaw is that it does nothing to undermine the criminal monopoly on the multi-billion-dollar drugs industry. The decriminalised cocaine consumed without criminal consequences in Portugal is still supplied by the gangs who cut off heads in Colombia. Only legalisation takes the business out of the […]
Drug poisoning admissions continue to rise
[…] cent of young people accessing treatment did so for cannabis, with 44 per cent for alcohol, 14 per cent for ecstasy and 10 per cent for powder cocaine. Less than 1 per cent sought treatment for opiates, although the number was up from 187 to 216 compared to the previous year. A third of […]
Behind Closed Doors
[…] Behaviour among Women in Methadone Treatment. A.M. J. Drug Alcohol Abuse 2009, 35, 305-310. Freeman, Collier, Pirrill, Early Life Sex Abuse is a Risk Factor for Crack Cocaine Use in the Sample of Community Recruited Women at High Risk for Illicit Drug Use, 2002, 28, 109-131. Edwards Lee & Lyvers, Childhood Sexual Abuse and […]
Another record high for Scots drug deaths
[…] total, a higher rate than any previous year. Street benzodiazepines were implicated in 64 per cent of the deaths, gabapentin and/or pregabalin in 35 per cent and cocaine in 29 per cent, again all more than in any previous year. Scottish Drugs Forum CEO David Liddell The statistics were a ‘grievous reminder of the […]
DDN July_August2021
[…] mental health needs. Opiate substitute stabilisation, with alcohol detox where indicated Methadone to buprenorphine switching, including from high-doses of methadone Methadone to long-acting opioid transfer GBL/GHB detoxificationCrack/ Cocaine detoxificationKetamine detoxificationSynthetic cannabinoids detoxification As well as alcohol and opioid detoxification, our service provides: BROOK DRIVE To find out more call us today on 020 7820 […]
Primary position
[…] not get into this dependency on opiates, because it’s such a long-term trap,’ she says. ‘Some of the stimulants and novel psychoactives have their own problems but – even with cocaine – they’re things that you can walk away from a bit more easily than an opiate habit. So I’m hoping that we won’t be seeing families affected […]
Family Matters- Stigma sticks
[…] phone stopped ringing, people crossed the street to avoid them, trust disintegrated at work or people became twitchy about their property. One wife whose husband was using cocaine said: ‘I’ve stopped going out and communicating with anyone, and I can’t mention his name to my family as it is like mud. They probably think […]
DDN090209
[…] underlying causes of ADHD type behaviours remaining untreated and so increasing the risk of self- medication with food, alcohol or drugs. For some, drugs like caffeine, nicotine, cocaine and amphetamine enable them to focus and follow through on tasks and goals. Others use drugs like alcohol and cannabis to soothe overactive ‘alarm response’ and […]
Soapbox
[…] countries have a lower level of contact with drug treatment services than either Sweden, known for its zero tolerance drug policies, or the UK, where heroin and cocaine attract the highest criminal justice penalty. On the basis of these data it would appear that there is no simple association between restrictive drug laws and […]
I’m Dudley and this is my story
[…] only one that had lost my way, so it was inevitable that it needed to happen sooner or later. I’d been addicted for 27 years to crack cocaine, heroin and all other different substances. Change Grow Live helped me by sending me to rehab. I was asked ‘would you like to go?’ and at […]
Early Intervention
[…] people in treatment said they had problems with alcohol. Meanwhile, among 17-year-olds in the UK, one in 10 will have used harder drugs such as ketamine and cocaine, according to University College London research. Fundamental determinants Wider determinants of health – such as housing, education and employment opportunities, social support, and personal resilience – […]
MDMA back in vogue as NPS numbers continue to rise
[…] deaths – slightly up on previous years – with ‘worrying’ rises in Ireland, Lithuania and Sweden alongside those reported in the UK (DDN, October 2015, page 4). Cocaine remains the continent’s most commonly used illicit stimulant, cited as the primary drug for 60,000 people entering treatment, while levels of cannabis use are also rising […]
West Africa ‘should decriminalise’ low-level drug offences
[…] a transit zone for drugs bound for Europe, it says, but a ‘significant zone of consumption and production’ in its own right. At an estimated $1.25bn, the scale of the cocaine trade alone ‘dwarfs the combined state budgets’ of many countries in the region, it adds, and while the region has a long history of cannabis production, mainly for local […]
Soapbox
[…] countries have a lower level of contact with drug treatment services than either Sweden, known for its zero tolerance drug policies, or the UK, where heroin and cocaine attract the highest criminal justice penalty. On the basis of these data it would appear that there is no simple association between restrictive drug laws and […]
What a long strange trip it’s been
[…] apocalyptic headlines. The government re-classifies magic mushrooms to class A, and – not for the last time – Britons are identified as among Europe’s biggest consumers of cocaine. 2006 The government warns drugs gangs to ‘be afraid’ as it launches the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), while – in a sign of how much […]
International aid money being spent on punitive drug control, says HRI report
[…] to be harmful and ineffective,’ added chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark. ‘It is particularly abhorrent that development assistance is applied to so-called narcotics control activities in countries which continue to execute people for drug-related offences.’ Aid for the war on drugs at hri.global/publications/aid-for-the-war-on-drugs/ Cocaine crop
Damp Squib?
[…] of the world,’ he argues. ‘In the US the majority of people want to legalise cannabis, but less than 10 per cent want to legalise heroin or cocaine – there’s been no general spreading of that sentiment. If you look at polls of young people in Europe, they don’t want to; if you look […]
Healthy exchange
[…] were stable, although four times higher in London than elsewhere in England and Wales, and there had been spikes in transmission of HIV, probably related to crack cocaine and increased risk behaviour. Needle and syringe sharing had declined overall, but the changing patterns could increase risk among different populations, so it was important to […]
Humankind approaches to drug-related offending and dual diagnosis showcased in first national drug strategy...
[…] drug-related offences. Since September 2022, the Calderdale community has benefited from ‘Fine Line’. The programme offers a bespoke support pathway for people arrested for offences related to cocaine. Anyone who has a positive test is directed to a required assessment with Calderdale Recovery Steps. The support service then determines the most appropriate support for […]
‘No slowdown’ in new psychoactive substances, says EMCDDA
[…] also have a ‘profound’ effect on Europe’s drug market. Cannabis is estimated to account for 38 per cent of the entire retail market for illicit drugs, while cocaine is the continent’s most commonly used illicit stimulant, with a market estimated to be worth at least EUR 5.7bn per year. The heroin market, meanwhile, is […]
DDN March2021
[…] at least once by the age odf 17, according to research by UCLbs Centre for Longitudinal Studies, while 10 per cent have tried drugs such ads MDMA, cocaine, LSD and amphetamines. More than half of 17-dyear-olds said they had engaged in binged drinking while 13 pder cent reported regular drinking, defined as six or […]
News in brief
[…] More people than ever are buying drugs online, according the findings of the 2014 global drug survey, which questioned nearly 80,000 people from more than 40 countries. Cocaine was voted the worst value for money drug in the world, while MDMA was voted the best and alcohol remained ‘the biggest cause of concern among […]
A New Model
[…] illegal drugs combined. ‘If you’re going to argue – as many bright people have – that we should have corporations like the tobacco industry sell methamphetamine and cocaine, you should explain why those drugs wouldn’t then be up there at the top of that list.’ Reducing demand In terms of reducing demand, while it […]
Nurses at drug and alcohol recovery service in Rochdale and Oldham nominated for national...
[…] a male 58-year-old client at ROAR said the nurses had helped him accept help for his substance use. “I have had substance use issues for over 15 years. I’ve used illicit substances like heroin, crack cocaine, diazepam and pregabalin. I am currently homeless after being evicted from my previous residence,” said David. “I haven’t liked engaging with services in the past. I have seen the nurses at Turning […]
Hit Hot Topics
[…] to ask that you get a little more angry.’ ‘Drugs are used as scapegoats,’ he said, quoting examples such as a newspaper headline from the 1930s: ‘Negro cocaine fiends are a new southern menace’…‘I hope this gives you conviction to change our narrative,’ he said. Using capability and courage involved critical thinking and calling on […]
Home secretary ‘minded to’ explicitly exempt poppers from Psychoactive Substances Act
[…] April 2016, page 4). A 2018 Court of Appeal ruling, however, stated that substances that only have an indirect psychoactive effect could still be covered by the legislation. The home secretary’s letter also seeks the ACMD’s advice on the drivers of increasing powder cocaine use among young people and drug sales on the ‘dark net’.
Letters
[…] effective and decades-proven addiction recovery techniques. The beauty of such training is that, in addition to allowing an addict to cure him or herself of alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, crack, heroin, methadone and other already known addictions, it provides an immediate response to the ‘legal highs’ increasingly available and preferred because they avoid legal penalties. […]
The Losing Hand
[…] clinics (see news, page 5 ). Ritchie had started gambling while at school, using his dinner money to play on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBT), dubbed the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’. Just seven years later he took his own life, with his parents arguing that he was addicted to ‘products licensed by the start’. Last […]
News in brief
[…] statistics. The figures represent a fall of around a fifth compared to 2005 and are down ‘hugely’ since the 1980s and ‘90s, says New opiate and crack- cocaine users: characteristics and trends. The downward trend has ‘flattened since about 2011, but available data do not suggest that this is the precursor to a new […]