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Keeping junkies at arm's length
Vancouver's brave new world of injection sites

Vancouver — It's clean. It's beautiful. It smells good.
The first legal shooting gallery in North America, in the heart of the most down-and-out neighbourhood in Canada, has the feeling of a trendy, hip club.

Clean wood floors, brightly coloured paintings on the walls, subdued lighting. But appearances notwithstanding, the most desperate drug addicts will be coming here to shoot their veins full of coke and heroin.  More...
  New safe injection site
 

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Epilepsy Drug May Treat Cocaine Addiction

(HealthDayNews) -- Gamma-vinyl-GABA (GVG), a drug used to treat epilepsy, appears to help people end their addiction to cocaine, according to the results of the first human trial on heavy users.

"In a population of hardcore cocaine users, we were able to block their craving for the drug and keep them off cocaine for over 90 days," says researcher Dr. Stephen Dewey, a senior scientist with the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.

"We were able to do this despite their living in their communities where all the cues and all the environmental triggers that cause relapse are at work," he adds. More...

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Drug sites: worth a try
EDITORIAL - The Globe and Mail

The safe-injection site for heroin and cocaine users that opened in Vancouver this week is an important step toward treating addictions as primarily a medical problem, rather than a legal one.

Providing addicts a safer place to inject illegal drugs may seem a radical departure in the context of "the war on drugs." U.S. anti-drug czar John Walter has denounced the Vancouver program as a form of "state-sponsored suicide." As the first program of its kind in North America, it has been accused of legitimizing illegal drug use. More...

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A pleasant surprise to find out where that awesome dj from 580 radio in the 1970s is now. I can't tell you how many times I listened to you playing "Take a Chance on Me" on the top 5 at 9 in 1978!

I am a gay man in his 40s who is a victor of sexual abuse as a child. I would like to read your article from The Star* but the link on your site doesn't seem to work any longer. (*NOTE...See the link at the bottom of this page) More...

Teen Smokers More Likely to Try Marijuana -Study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Teen-agers who smoke cigarettes are 14 times more likely to try marijuana than those who never used tobacco, according to researchers who urged on Tuesday that preventing teen smoking be made a priority in the U.S. war on drugs.

The finding by Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse and the American Legacy Foundation, an anti-smoking group, affirmed earlier studies that also found a strong correlation between tobacco and drug use among the young.

Results of the survey of 2,000 people between the ages of 12-17 showed that 60 percent of regular marijuana users smoked cigarettes first. At least 84 percent of teen smokers have tried marijuana whereas only 6 percent of marijuana users did not start as cigarette smokers. More...

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U.K.: Ecstasy and crack flourish in the nation's rural idylls

The death of Jade Slack laid bare the massive drug problem in rural areas. Stephen Khan, Scotland editor, reports on a grim situation in the far north

It was known locally as the rhubarb village. Nowhere were the sweet, earthy flavours of an idyllic English summer more tangible than in Galgate, Lancashire. Those days have gone now. Fine fruit is history. Ecstasy dealers and juvenile drug tragedies have arrived. More...
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Czar's command is Russia's curse: vodka

Tippling takes toll on health, industry -- many die drunk

Sumino, Russia -- With a crooked half-smile, Alexander Yegorov acknowledges his defeat.

In his 18 years as the manager of the Sumino collective dairy farm, Yegorov has tried everything he could think of, from levying fines against employees who show up drunk at work to asking the police to rein in local moonshine makers who sell homemade vodka to his workers on credit. "Nothing works," he says.

Like Russia itself, Yegorov is waging a losing battle against vodka, which he says is crippling his farm in the country's northwest. More...

Dr Steven R. Miller Ph.D.D

      

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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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