|
MAP - Europe
|
Media Awareness Project Drug News
|
-
UK: Drug User Died After Taking Heroin Contaminated With
Leicester Mercury, 31 Aug 2010 - A drug user died after taking heroin contaminated with anthrax, health officials revealed this morning. Thomas Forbes, 29, of Loughborough is the fourth heroin user in England to die after taking a dose of the drug which had somehow become contaminated with anthrax.
-
UK: Leicestershire Man Hopes Cannabis-Based Drug Will Ease
Leicester Mercury, 31 Aug 2010 - A man is paying hundreds of pounds for a cannabis-based drug to try and ease the agonising pain caused by multiple sclerosis. Andrew Cooper, from Ibstock, is about to begin taking the new drug, Sativex, the first cannabis-based medicine licensed for use by MS sufferers.
-
UK: Column: Drink, Drugs and Uneasy Hypocrisy
The Guardian, 28 Aug 2010 - Alcohol Should Not Have a Special Status Among Narcotics. We Need to Toughen Up on Booze and Lighten Up on Other Drugs Have you ever wondered what an advert for cocaine might look like if illegal drugs were legalised? I'm looking at one now. An attractive young woman in an extravagant feathered hat and a low-cut dress with a foaming lace collar, curls tumbling prettily down over her forehead, is holding a bell-shaped tea glass three-quarters full of a brown liquid. Her arm is sheathed in a white elbow-length glove and her pinkie is extended. The marketing slogan is displayed in an oval plaque next to a vase of yellow roses: "Drink Coca-Cola, 5c."
-
UK: Headteacher's Delight As Nearby Needle Exchange Scheme Is
Northampton Chronicle & Echo, 26 Aug 2010 - The headteacher at a Northampton primary school has said she is "really pleased" that plans to run a needle-exchange scheme at a pharmacy, which backs on to the playing field, have been shelved. The Abington Health Complex in Beech Avenue put in a planning application at the start of the month to open a new pharmacy by developing an existing waiting area within the surgery.
-
UK: U.K. Enlists Bans To Stop Narcotics
Wall Street Journal, 20 Aug 2010 - The U.K. is giving its law-enforcement authorities extra powers to fight a wave of new narcotics known as "legal highs." The drugs are often legal when they hit the market because authorities haven't yet seen and banned them. With names such as Meow Meow and NRG-1, the drugs have been popular in Europe. New synthetic cannabinoids that are similar to marijuana also have appeared widely in the U.S.
|
European News