Drug Abuse

Drug Addiction: Report: Treating Drug Addicts Costs £3.6bn – Sky.com
The study by the think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has criticised government plans to change the way authorities tackle drug addiction. It said the plans for payment-by-results schemes are “doomed to failure”. Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke …
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Drug Addiction: Failure to reform drug users costing UK £3.6bn a year – yorkshirepost
Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke plans to change the way authorities tackle drug addiction, diverting more people with drug problems away from prison and into treatment as part of a “rehabilitation revolution”. But the Government’s plans for payment- …
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Drug Addiction: Drugs treatment policy for England ‘doomed to failure’ – BBC
Government policies for treating drug addicts in England are flawed and “doomed to failure”, a think tank says. The Centre for Policy Studies says rehabilitation is a better use of the £3.6bn now spent on treating users with drug substitutes like …
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Drug Addiction: Warning over ketamine after drug ‘rots man’s insides’ – Cambridge News
They were done in 1971 and the drug scene has completely changed.” The court heard that Pattison, who is now training to become a counsellor for addicts in Cambridge, had been using ketamine for a shorter period of time so her health was able to recover …
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Drug Addiction: Barbecue shows positive support for drug court program
The Dodge County drug court program helped Jason Nelsen overcome his addiction and gave him a second chance at being a father to his children.
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Drug Addiction: Federal substance-abuse agencies lumber toward a merger
The angst-ridden process of merging the two federal agencies that govern research and education on substance-abuse problems will drag on for another two years.
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