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#Drugs and #Alcohol: Not for Profit, Providing a range of prevention, treatment and #recovery services for drug users families and carers ALSO @voiceaudiobank

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UK councils under pressure over £1bn of tobacco investments | Guardian theguardian.com/business/201…

UK councils under pressure over £1bn of tobacco investments

Major investors set example to local authorities with commitment to selling shares in cigarette makers

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Reality Check: How many people are homeless in England? | BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-3…

Reality Check: How many people are homeless in England?

Liberal Democrats have pledged to end homelessness - how many people are affected?

bbc.co.uk
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We have waged war on drugs for a century. So who won? | Alex Wodak | Opinion | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…

We have waged war on drugs for a century. So who won? | Alex Wodak

Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines show how prohibition has made a global problem far worse

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Academics take smart drugs to keep up with university work | News | The Times & The Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/acade…

Academics take smart drugs to keep up with university work

University professors are taking smart drugs to help them to concentrate in meetings and prepare grant applications, according to a Cambridge University academi

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'Ireland Loves Ecstasy According To Latest Global Drug Survey Report' edmtunes.com/2017/05/ireland…

Ireland Loves Ecstasy According To Latest Global Drug Survey Report

According to the Global Drug Survey, the country with the highest usage of Ecstasy or MDMA is in fact Ireland with almost 40% responding in the affirmative

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America's fentanyl epidemic - 100 times stronger than heroin and now in Britain | Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05…

America's fentanyl epidemic - 100 times stronger than heroin and now in Britain

Morgan Gilman, a 21-year-old hotel maid, was driving 80mph on a motorway through New Hampshire when she overdosed on fentanyl, a killer drug 100 times more powerful than heroin.

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Success of medical-grade heroin in Europe prompts calls for treatment in Vancouver - British Columbia | CBC News cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/brit…
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Teenagers' sleep quality and mental health at risk over late-night mobile phone use | Life and style | The Guardian theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

Teenagers' sleep quality and mental health at risk over late-night mobile phone use

Researchers advise ‘physical boundaries’ over devices in bedrooms after study finds poor sleep associated with phone use linked to depressed moods

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How to deal with your mental health when the bad news keeps coming | Metro News metro.co.uk/2017/05/29/how-t…

How to deal with your mental health when the world feels like a scary place

It's okay to switch off.

metro.co.uk
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Decriminalising sex work is the only way to protect women – New Zealand has proved that it works | The Independent independent.co.uk/voices/sex…
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Gay and Transgender Patients to Doctors: We’ll Tell. Just Ask. | NYTimes.com mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/2…
'Smoke-free prisons will explode into violence' | Comment | The Times & The Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/smoke…
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AIDS charity-25,000 people in UK unaware they are HIV positive,want high shops to stock DIY test kits | Bristol Post bristolpost.co.uk/news/healt…
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Welfare drug test: Which countries do it and has it worked anywhere? | ABC abc.net.au/triplej/programs/…
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Ottawa approves 4 new supervised drug consumption sites ipolitics.ca/2017/05/26/otta…
Ireland: Roadside drug tests may tackle prescription painkiller ‘epidemic’ | Irish Times irishtimes.com/news/health/r…

Roadside drug tests may tackle prescription painkiller ‘epidemic’

Emergency medicine consultant berates ‘intellectual snobbery’ around cocaine use

irishtimes.com
Police issue warning after ‘bad batch’ of heroin sparks overdoses | Times & The Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/polic…
US New Laws Force Drug Users Into Rehab Against Their Will | Daily Beast thedailybeast.com/articles/2…
Cost-effective ways to combat HIV risk among intravenous drug users identified | ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com/releases/20…

Cost-effective ways to combat HIV risk among intravenous drug users identified

With the abuse of opioids on the rise in the United States, researchers are concerned that increased HIV transmission from shared needles won't be far behind.

sciencedaily.com
Proportion of UK drug users using dark net to buy drugs 'doubles in three years' | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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