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Liberal MP dismisses U.S. views on pot

OTTAWA -- The head of a special parliamentary committee examining Canada's legislation to decriminalize marijuana said yesterday she has no interest in inviting top U.S. drug official John Walters to testify at hearings into the controversial bill.

"I'd rather hear from our top executives on drug situations," said Liberal MP Paddy Torsney, in the latest volley of political pot shots over Ottawa's plans to relax marijuana laws. More...


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Addicts to get free heroin
Gradual weaning. 150 to be recruited for Montreal portion of three-city study

The idea sounds like the farthest thing from drug rehabilitation: give heroin addicts free shots of pharmaceutical-grade smack to help them kick their habit.

Yet that's precisely what doctors in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver hope to do in a controlled study early next year.

Researchers plan to recruit about 150 heroin addicts for the Montreal portion of the study. The addicts will be encouraged to shoot up in a downtown clinic under the supervision of a nurse up to three times daily, seven days a week. More...
CREDIT: DAVE SIDAWAY, THE GAZETTE
The goal of the research is to get addicts off the streets, where they often use dirty needles to inject themselves.

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SMOKING OUT BIG TOBACCO
 DU MAURIER INFILTRATES T.O.'S PARTY SCENE WITH SNEAKY NEW MARKETING SCHEME

 Edging furtively toward the swinging strobe lights, flickering torches and steel lattice archway, I might imagine I've stumbled onto the set of the next Cher video were it not for the massive Definiti signs hanging just ahead and being projected into the night sky. I probe the thick-necked bouncer, What is Definiti anyway? But before I even reach the ticket-taker I'm given my first clues. The glint of glass and soft spotlights draws my eye to a shiny display case a few feet from the door – du Maurier cigarettes, ashtrays and Zippos nestled safely within. A few paces further, the thumping of house music grows louder and a beautiful model in a red satin corset holds a tray loaded with row after perfect row of red and white cigarette packs.

A tip from a Web site advertised in NOW brings me here tonight. Nothing on the site tells me it's pushing smokes. There are just DJ listings, music streaming and half-clad girls asking me if I can handle the heat.  More...

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To: peoplehelpingpeople(NOSPAM)@cfrb.com
Subject: RE: 15 year old guy

Hi Mark,

I'm sorry that your young listeners are being represented by some guy with
no foresight. I'm 17, and obviously those two extra years have made a big
difference on the way I view drug use. I have a very good friend who has
been using drugs more and more frequently over the past few months. He
started out with pot, progressed to shrooms, and is planning on trying e,
acid, etc. .
Maybe it's my position as the sober "drug babysitter", with many hours of
watching smart guys tripping, that has given me such insight into this
guy's idea of his so-called enlightenment. More...

Program a concern for head of detox
Giving heroin to addicts not 'logical'

Montreal - The head of a local detoxification centre questions a proposed test program that would provide heroin addicts with the drug of their choice.

"I have difficulty with that," Rodrigue Paré, executive director of La Maison Jean Lapointe, said yesterday of the planned study to be conducted next year involving heroin users.

"I don't see the logic of giving heroin addicts real heroin," Paré told The Gazette. "It's like giving booze to alcoholics or marijuana to pot smokers." More...		 Drug abuse - injection
There is controversy over the use of heroin as a treatment

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Courtney Love 'tried to make overdose fun for daughter'

Courtney Love says she tried to make her recent drugs overdose "fun" for her 11-year-old daughter.

The Hole singer was arrested earlier this month after becoming violent outside a house in Los Angeles.

Hours after she was released by police, she fell ill from an accidental overdose of the narcotic OxyContin.

Love, 39, said her daughter Frances Bean made her green tea as they waited at their Beverly Hills home for an ambulance to arrive. More...
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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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