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Contraceptives in Methadone?
Duncan McNeil, a Labour MSP in Scotland recently suggested putting contraceptives in methadone treatments as a way to curb the problem of looking after the children of drug addicts there.While the suggestion may be a fairly extreme measure, it has sparked a lot of debate in the UK concerning possible “tough love” measures for drug addicts.
For example, Jack McConnell, another Labour MP, has proposed introducing “contracts” for drug addicts who wanted to receive state-funded aid with their addiction. The conracts would stipulate that the addict was not allowed to have children and in return their treatment would be funded. The contract would set out their obligations and a range of disincentives for violating those obligations.
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Africa, Europe
What medicines Intercare helps give, the UK Environment Agency wants to bury
Intercare, a charitable organisation based in Leicester, England, which has for the past 30 years received returned prescription medicines and then distributed them to the needy in Africa, is being forced to suspend all operations because the UK government’s Environment Agency has decreed that the drugs should be classed as waste and under EU regulations be buried in landfill. On the face of it this is nuts. Intercare receives the surplus medicines, which are in-date and sealed, from various UK GP clinics and manufacturers; it is surplus for various reasons, including damaged packaging, cancelled orders and batch over-runs. They are then inspected by retired National Health Service professionals such as doctors, nurses and pharmacists, and sent - only to order - on to 94 clinics in Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone and Zambia, covering 2.5 million people. All the time specifically approved by the World Health Organistion (WHO), even though, as Christopher Booker of The Daily Telegraph noted, the Agency “even talks self-importantly of the need to comply with WHO guidance”.
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Europe, Smuggling
London police renew appeal for info on deceased female Ghanaian drug smuggler
Police in London are asking again for anyone who recognises the woman - thought to be from Ghana - who died in late May as result of swallowing 61 packages of what is suspected to be cocaine to come forward so that her family can be notified. Although the woman identified herself as Mary Kofi, police suspect she was using a false name. She is described as being in her late 40s, of heavy build and five foot 10 inches tall, and was wearing a distinctive red print dress, silver shoes and had red-tinted extensions in her hair.
“Mary” was found on the 29th of May, a Bank Holiday Monday, by staff of St Helier Hospital in Sutton, south-west London, sitting on a wall outside and complaining of severe stomach pains. Most likely dumped at the hospital by her handlers as the bags leaked their contents - toxicology results are not yet in - she had no identification on her. She told hospital staff she was on a flight from Ghana and had cocaine in her stomach. Staff at Heathrow airport didn’t recognise her.
Police contact details are as follows:
* Detective Constable Suzanne Bainbridge on 020 8649 0731 (international code = 44)
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Europe, Smuggling, War on Drugs
Giles Carlyle-Clarke
Giles Carlyle-Clarke, an Englishman who has been wanted by U.S. authorities ever since his arrest in 1997 on charges of being involved in a £60 million marijuana smuggling operation dating back to the 1980s, has lost his final legal battle against extradition and is being flown over to Alabama. The 48-year-old, a furniture importer and member of an aristocratic family whose history can be traced all the way back to the Domesday book of 1086, had his case rejected two weeks ago by the European Court of Human Rights after earlier having lost in the High Court. He had claimed it was no coincidence that his deportation was approved only ten days after President Bush’s controversial visit to the UK in late 2003, when the future release of nine British detainees at Guantanamo was discussed. British and US authorities denied the link. A magistrate granted the American request for extradition in January 1999.
Carlyle-Clarke is accused of being part of a deal to smuggle four tonnes of marijuana into the U.S. state of Alabama from Jamaica between 1983-88. US authorities say it took so long in the first place to charge him because they weren’t able to identify or trace him. In response he noted that they already had his address from an affidavit he had signed in 1989 to affirm that he had lent a friend, Robert de Lisser, £20,000 to help fight drug charges; in addition, they had had a photo of him since 1988.
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Europe, Middle East, War on Drugs
Iran Changing Hardline Drug Use Policy
The recent visit by prominent Iranian doctor and directory of drug NGO, Persepolis, Bijan Nassirimanesh, to Switzerland has revealed a few things about the changing face of the Iranian approach to the war on drugs.
Dr Nassirimanesh and Persepolis are helping develop new ways of combatting the issue of drugs and addiction in Iran - a country with two million drug addicts.
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Europe, Treatment
Deadly sea snail venom is lifesaver for chronic pain patients
In a very cool development, Prialt, a non-opiate, non-addictive painkiller aimed at those suffering from chronic pain, including cancer patients, which is 1,000 times more potent than morphine and based on the venom of a deadly sea snail, has just been launched in Britain. The venom of the Magician’s Cone Snail (Conus magus) is usually shot at nearby fish, paralysing them so that they can be eaten whole. The snail is found in coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. -
Entertainment, Europe, North America
Sherrybaby
U.S. film director Laurie Collyer has won the main prize at the prestigious Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic for her film “Sherrybaby”, which is about a drug-addicted mother who returns from prison to build a relationship with her young daughter who she hasn’t seen since receiving her three-year sentence. It stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sam Bottoms, Giancarlo Esposito and Danny Trejo. Here is a review in Variety. A clip from the movie is above.
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Europe, Treatment
DrugLine Lancashire Charity to Celebrate 20 Years
Drugline Lancashire is a charity from the UK that is celebrating 20 years in existence.
At the moment they are trying to track down people who have volunteered over the last two decades in helping them out so they can all celebrate on August 4.
While I may be a cynic when it comes to federal or international organisations like the UNDOC, outfits like Drugline are the ones that are going to have real impact on a local level. These types of charities and the people who operate them are at the coalface of the drug problem and deserve far more credit and funding than any politician or bureaucrat does.
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Africa, Europe, The Media
Drugs Over the Net
According to a report in the London Times, there is growing concern that doctors are handing out drugs accross the internet without sufficient due dilligence.
This has lead to obvious concerns that people could take advantage of doctors who are willing to prescribe certain medications as a way to feed drug habits or the trade in illegal prescription drugs.
Some of the conditions for which doctors are prescribing medication include impotence, weight loss and baldness.
Paul Cundy, spokesman for the British Medical Association, said,
“Doctors are operating blind. It’s not possible to have an online
‘consultation’, because you can’t see, speak to or enter into a proper
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Europe
Three heroin users jailed for torturing man
Three heroin users from Llanelli, Wales, who kept a 55-year-old man suffering from bi-polar disorder in a house and extorted money from him through beatings and sexual assault to pay for their heroin, have just been sentenced in a Swansea court after pleading guilty last month. According to the BBC, the judge said they “had reached the depths of human depravity”.
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