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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Study: Teen drug use at school getting worse |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 5:02 am |
| Tags: Addiction, Alcohol, Columbia University, Columbiauniversity, Drug Use, Drugs, Druguse, Drunk, High, High School, Highschool, Illegal Drugs, Illegaldrugs, Parents, Public School, Publicschool, Schools, Smoking, Substance Abuse, Substanceabuse, Teen Drug Use, Teenagers, Teendrug |
| Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, things haven't changed all that much in American high schools. I doubt schools offer smoking areas these days, but kids are still doing drugs at school. 61 percent of teens say they attend high schools with drug problems and four out of five say they have actually witnessed the use, sale or possession |
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| Drugs report urges less jail time, more rehab |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 5:27 pm |
| Tags: Community Society, Drugs Substance Abuse, Law Crime Justice, Prisons Punishment, Australia |
| A new report commissioned by the Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) has recommended the Federal Government invest more on diversion programs and less on jail terms. |
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| Cask wine restrictions hit Alice alcohol consumption |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Community Society, Drugs Substance Abuse, Government Politics, States Territories, Alice Springs 0870 |
| Drinkers in Alice Springs who have turned away from cask wine and taken to full strength beer are being seen by authorities as a sign of progress in reducing alcohol consumption. |
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| Drug addiction proposals will 'alienate users' |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 5:34 am |
| Tags: Community Society, Drugs Substance Abuse, Addictive Drugs, Parenting, Australia |
| A drug support group says a zero-tolerance approach to addiction would lead to more deaths, disease and crime. |
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| Dion - Deny, Deny, Deny |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 10:41 am |
| Tags: Kyoto, Liberal Caucus, No Substance, Dion |
| This is another example of think one thing and do another The Liberals who spazzed on and on about Kyoto had doubts themselves. You cannot take anything solid out of what they say in question period or in the press. They are simply out to score political points."empty words" = Liberals |
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| Addict paralysed by nitrous oxide bulb |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 11:57 pm |
| Tags: Drugs Substance Abuse, Australia |
| The Medical Journal of Australia has revealed a young woman recovering from a heroin addiction has been paralysed by sniffing nitrous oxide from whipped cream charger bulbs. |
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| Teens underestimate the dangers of meth |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 8:31 am |
| Tags: Addiction, Drugs, Meth, Meth Project, Methproject, Montana Meth, Montanameth, Substance Abuse, Substanceabuse, Teenagers Meth, Teenagersmeth |
| Filed under: Teenager, DrugsWhen I first moved from New York to my current home in Idaho, I expected to find a cleaner, safer, more wholesome place to raise a child. And I did. But I also quickly learned about a drug that I had heretofore been ignorant of - meth. I suppose I had heard of it, but had no idea the damage this highly addictive |
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| Health staff to leave Titjikala |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 5:33 pm |
| Tags: Drugs Substance Abuse, Indigenous, Health Policy, Antisocial Behaviour, Australia, Alice Springs 0870 |
| The Northern Territory Health Department has decided to withdraw its health staff from the central Australian community of Titjikala, south of Alice Springs, on weekends because of an increase in alcohol-related violence. |
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| Anger over Summer Heights High drug death joke |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 9:01 pm |
| Tags: Arts Entertainment, Television, Community Society, Drugs Substance Abuse, Abc, Australia, Nsw, Sydney 2000 |
| The family of a girl who died after taking drugs at a Sydney music festival this year has complained to the ABC about this week's episode of its Summer Heights High comedy series. |
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| City arcade fronts tribunal after police drug sting |
| Published: September 23, 2007, 8:47 pm |
| Tags: Community Society, Drugs Substance Abuse, Urban Development Planning, Australia, Vic, Melbourne 3000 |
| The operators of a city amusement arcade have agreed to improve video surveillance, in a move to clean up alleged heroin dealing in the area. |
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| Straddie residents hit out at teenage invasion |
| Published: September 23, 2007, 8:24 pm |
| Tags: Community Society, Drugs Substance Abuse, Family Children, Australia, Qld, Dunwich 4183, Southport 4215 |
| Angry residents on south-east Queensland's North Stradbroke Island say parents should take responsibility for teenagers causing problems on the island. |
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| Drug-taking rail workers will be booted: Iemma |
| Published: September 24, 2007, 12:38 am |
| Tags: Drugs Substance Abuse, States Territories, Rail Transport, Nsw |
| The New South Wales Premier, Morris Iemma, says rail contract workers who test positive to illegal drugs will be sacked, after a Freedom of Information report revealed nearly 8 per cent of Railcorp's contract staff took drugs. |
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| Rail scandal: Anger over YouTube drug boasts |
| Published: September 24, 2007, 6:15 pm |
| Tags: Drugs Substance Abuse, States Territories, Internet, Nsw |
| Videos that appear to show workers from New South Wales rail body Railcorp smoking drugs and drinking while in uniform have been removed from the YouTube video sharing website. |
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| Terrorist On Wheels Kiefer Sutherland Arrested for DUI |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 12:41 pm |
| Tags: Celebrity, Substance Abuse |
| LOST BOYS and FLATLINERS star Kiefer Sutherland was arrested on suspicion of of a DUI the other night, and allegedly blew more than twice the California limit of .08. This is Sutherland’s second DUI, after previously been arrested in 2004. A conviction this time around would almost certainly lead to some jail time. Sutherland is currently |
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| Thailand agrees to allow Deane-Johns to return to Australia |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 9:50 pm |
| Tags: Drugs Substance Abuse, Federal Government, Foreign Affairs, Laws, Prisons Punishment, Drug Offences, Canberra 2600, Perth 6000, Thailand |
| The Thai Government has approved the transfer of convicted heroin smuggler Holly Deane-Johns to Australia. |
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