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Vancouver polled on heroin clinic

VANCOUVER -- First it was safe injection sites.

Now it's free heroin.

Residents of Vancouver's drug-infested Downtown Eastside have until Oct. 24 to tell City Hall how they feel about a rezoning application for a new clinic in their neighbourhood.

The facility would hand out free heroin to addicts as part of a national experiment to find out whether making the drug available through prescription improves the health of injection-drug users, reduces homelessness and cuts crime. Residents have been told that addicts would come to the high-security clinic up to three times a day, seven days a week, for heroin prescribed by a physician. They would use the drug under supervision at the clinic.

The researchers plan on providing heroin to 88 addicts and methadone to 70. After 12 months, the researchers intend to shift the addicts to methadone or abstinence. More...


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Self-casino ban violator ordered to forfeit $64K.

ATLANTIC CITY N.J. — A compulsive gambler lucky with wagers and unlucky with the law must return $64,000 in winnings because he had banned himself from casinos, the Casino Control Commission ruled Wednesday.

Daniel Santangelo won the amount over a 10-week period last year at Bally's Atlantic City. But he had previously registered for the state's 2-year-old self-exclusion program, in which gamblers acknowledge a gambling compulsion and agree that they "shall not collect any winnings or recover any losses."

Santangelo tried his luck anyway. More...

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OPP officers told to enforce pot possession laws

TORONTO (CP) - The glory days for Ontario marijuana-smokers are over, at least for now, with provincial police poised to start laying possession charges again after months of turning a blind eye to public toking across the province when pot laws were temporarily loosened.
Ontario Provincial Police officers have been advised that they can now enforce Canada's laws against simple possession of pot after a court ruling last week clarified that the law was constitutional.

Superintendent Bill Crate, director of corporate communications for the Ontario Provincial Police, said today that officers have been told that they can now enforce the law - which had been suspended since earlier this year due to a previous court ruling.

"What the ruling means for us is it's basically clarified that simple possession . . . is constitutionally valid and now subject to the full force and effect of the law." More...

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Hi Mr. Elliot,
 
I am a frequent listener to your show on CFRB in Toronto, and I must say that I find it thoroughly engrossing.
 
Last evening I heard about the tragedy of the Quebec teenager who consumed approximately 20 shooters in about 15 seconds. I felt heartbroken.
 
What really astounded me, however, is that any one could down 20 shooters, each in less than a second. That seems almost impossible.  More...

Marijuana smoking damages sperm

Men who smoke marijuana frequently damage their fertility in several different ways, research suggests.

Scientists at Buffalo University found regular smokers had significantly less seminal fluid, and a lower sperm count.

Their sperm were also more likely to swim too fast too early, leading to burn-out before they reach the egg.

Lead researcher Dr Lani Burkman said: "The bottom line is, the active ingredients in marijuana are doing something to sperm." More...

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RICH AND POOR ADDICTS GET VERY DIFFERENT TREATMENT

Quentin S. -- a young black man with little money -- is a drug addict, like most of the offenders who show up in the drug court of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Doris "Dee" Downs in Atlanta. When he was arrested for possession of marijuana and cocaine, she sentenced him to a regimen of drug treatment and random drug tests.

 But when Quentin repeatedly failed those tests, Downs sentenced him to a year's incarceration in a state-run detention center, where he is receiving drug treatment. After his release, his probation will require outpatient treatment for a year, as well as intensive supervision.

Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand, is a wealthy, middle-aged white man. He, too, is having trouble kicking a drug habit. By his own admission, he is trying for the third time to break free of his addiction to painkillers. But unlike Quentin (whose last name is being withheld), Limbaugh is unlikely to spend time behind bars. Nor is he likely to be required to take random drug tests or report to a probation officer. More...
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Robert Downey, Jr., looking for absolution.
So you're going to go all linear on me?'' Robert Downey Jr. says. ''Killjoy,'' he adds, leaning into the tape recorder. I had just shifted the conversation from spontaneous chat to Keith Gordon's film adaptation of Dennis Potter's 1986 mini-series, ''The Singing Detective,'' in which Downey has his first lead role after officially becoming free and clear of all legal constraints and confinements since his arrest on drug and gun-possession charges in 1996. (Free Registration Req'd) More...

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SPEAKING MORE OPENLY ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE
Hidden Cases, Including Mine

By Mark Elliot

Being a victim of sexual abuse makes for good conversation these days, but I cannot say I enjoy the topic. Sexual abuse is a very familiar topic for those of us involved in alcohol and drug recovery. I have heard estimates that 60 percent to 80 per cent of us have been sexually abused. When I first began discussing it publicly in 1991 a secretary asked me if such talk was "some new fad for young men". I think the look she got from me told her what she needed to know.

It is no fad. I would prefer to have my nails pulled out with a pair of pliers - slowly and with agony if it would mean never having to discuss my sexual abuse again. It is a subject that’s caused me no end of pain, confusion, alcoholism, and addiction since I was six years old. Other victims are suing the church, the parochial schools, the government, and others for their suffering. I have no one to sue and no desire to do it even if I could. More...
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