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©Sha (Original Message)

Sent: 6/22/2006 6:24 PM

Women's Life, your channel for life
Addiction can be hell on earth and life in an alcohol and drug ... Addiction often runs in families; you do not choose addiction, addiction chooses you...
http://www.womenslife.co.za/Default.asp?action=article&ContentID=1827

Heady cocktails
Frontline - India
... products such as heroin - from opium, and cocaine from coca leaves; and pharma drugs such as buprenorphine (a synthetic opiate), methadone and Alprazolam. Continued:
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20060630002703500.htm

Buprenorphine Abuse Reported in Republic of Georgia
JoinTogether.org - USA.

Buprenorphine is less addictive than heroin or methadone, and is used to treat opiate addiction; the drug also is less stringently controlled under the UN's ... continued at below link:
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2006/tests-show-70-percent-less.html

Judge dismisses methadone lawsuit
Roanoke Times - Roanoke, VA, USA.
... a lawsuit that sought to shut down the city's controversial
methadone clinic..drugs in January 2005, had claimed that the clinic violated zoning laws and that...
http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/69559

EDITORIAL: Methadone: Strengthen the FDA: Strengthen the FDA
International News Service - Sydney,Australia
But laws take time..the pharmacy board will provide information to druggists to help them explain to patients the need for caution when taking methadone. ...
http://feed.insnews.org/v-cgi/feeds.cgi?feedid=150&story_id=1916721

Treatment options limited for many drug addicts
Winchester Sun - Winchester, KY, USA.
people, including about 50 in Clark County, receive regular
methadone treatments for ... just say no�?campaigns, treatment programs and tougher laws have failed.
http://www.winchestersun.com/articles/2006/06/14/local_news/news02.txt

Are Hard Drugs Hitting a New High in India?
TIME - USA. In this conservative city of 14 million, corruption scandals may be routine, but designer drugs have historically seemed as easy to find as steak. ...
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1203093,00.html>

Kyrgyz police detain US citizen for drugs
Daily Times - Lahore, Pakistan.
Michael Brandon Woods, 25, told police that he had bought the drugs for personal consumption. Sarynbek Alymkulov, deputy anti-drugs..
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C06%5C13%5Cstory_13-6-2006_pg4_24

DRUGS. FERRERO: LAW BY CDL MUST BE STERILISED
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - Italy
To the experimentation of the so-called 'hole-chambers' ('stanze del buco'), Ferrero stated: 'it is part of our agenda to help reduce the useof heavy drugs. ...
http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200606121404-1141-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline

Approval of generic drugs creates headache for the FDA
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC, USA.
They maintain that unlike traditional small molecule drugs that are easy to replicate and easy to prove equivalent through chemical analysis,biologics are ...
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/06/12/newscolumn1.html

Canadians support testing drivers for drugs: poll CTV.ca - Canada.
A new poll suggests the majority of Canadians support giving police the power to test drivers for drugs, such as marijuana, says MADD Canada.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060612/madd_canada_poll_060612/20060612?hub=Canada

Study questions if drugs raise suicide risk. Reuters - USA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A study raises questions about whether newer antidepressant drugs raise the risk of suicide as some studies have suggested by finding...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-06-13T000547Z_01_N12196598_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUICIDE.xml

Asthma Drugs May Boost Cataract Risk for Elderly
Forbes - USA
"This important information to physicians and patients will help in the management of patients using these drugs.". For patients..
http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2006/06/12/hscout533210.html

HGS Spinoff to Focus On Early-Stage Drugs
Washington Post - United States
... Human Genome Sciences is 14 years old and is intently pursuing final-stage testing of what could be its first products -- drugs to treat lupus and hepatitis....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061201209.html

Police again fail to quantify drugs in Rahul case
Hindu - Chennai,India
12 (PTI): With the Delhi Police today once again failing to quantify th exact amount of drugs consumed by Rahul Mahajan and recovered from his premises, the ...
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200606122031.htm

FDA cracks down on fake drugs
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
A draft policy from the FDA's counterfeit drug task force, concerns drugs marketed in the United States that do not have required FDA approval and emphasizes ...
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=18405

Drugs fears as Customs leave posts unmanned
Times Online - UK
By Richard Ford, Stewart Tendler and Fran Yeoman. MINISTERS were accused yesterday of leaving Britain’s borders wide open to drug ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2233417,00.html

Deals signed to battle against terrorism, drugs
China Daily - China
By Qin Jize (China Daily). China and Afghanistan yesterday agreed to strengthen bonds in the battle against terrorism and drug crime. ...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-06/20/content_620943.htm

Study Spots Potential Stroke Drugs
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory, NC, USA.
Using a novel screening technology, Duke University Medical Center researchers have shown that drugs called cardiac glycosides can protect brain cellsfrom ...
http://www.emaxhealth.com/114/6338.html

Inernational players may be forced to resort to drugs
Reuters.uk - UK
LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - International cricketers may be forced to resort to performance-enhancing drugs because of the number of matches they are now ...
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=cricketNews&storyID=2006-06-19T221542Z_01_L19464592_RTRIDST_0_SPORT-CRICKET-DRUGS.XML

BlackBerries are put away
Houston Chronicle - United States
CHICAGO - BlackBerry addicts have a crack at freedom when they check into one ... program that began last week grew out of his own personal BlackBerry addiction. ...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/3956164.html

Ramstad reaches out to colleague recovering from addiction
Boston Globe - United States
... has a history of taking recovering addicts under his wing, including convicted Colorado murderer Kent LeBere, whose battle with alcohol addiction loomed as an ...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/06/12/ramstad_reaches_out_to_colleague_recovering_from_addiction/

New plan compares U.S./Canadian drug prices

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/508925.html

Canada East - Canada. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - An addiction centre is opening Europe's first detox clinic for video game addicts, offering in-house treatment for people who can ...
http://www.canadaeast.com/cp/health/article2.php?articleID=8506

Rockefeller calls for drug warnings
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston, WV, USA.
... Methadone, formerly given to heroin addicts to help them control their addiction, is being increasingly prescribed by doctors to treat pain.
http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2006061238/

Batt out of hell
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Addicts are urged to join fellowship because it is, according to people like Batt ... Batt now has a masters degree in addiction counselling, and is working on a PhD ...
http://society.guardian.co.uk/drugsandalcohol/story/0,,1791462,00.html

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©Sha

Sent: 6/22/2006 7:30 PM

Amsterdam Clinic Opening For Game Addicts
Playfuls.com - Targu Mures,Romania
We saw that these gamers often displayed many of the same characteristics of addiction as heavy gamblers, and drug addicts....

http://www.playfuls.com/news_5904_Amsterdam_Clinic_Opening_For_Game_Addicts.html

http://news.com.com/2061-10797_3-6082204.html

http://www.dtp-hulp.nl/wildhorses/

Britain urged to relax drug laws
United Press International - USA
... officials are being urged to consider relaxing drug laws and
prescribing...addicts treatment -- with prescription injectable heroin, oral methadone and "shooting ...
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060602-110541-8437r

ICAC queries abandoned murder case
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... her last September at a north-west Sydney home by giving her methadone in a...

New laws prohibiting the naming of child victims of crime prevent the Herald from ...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/icac-queries-abandoned-murder-case/2006/06/12/1149964470307.html

The solution to heroin use (at last!)
ProgressiveU.org - San Mateo,CA,USA
The liberalisation of drug laws in Zurich (Switzerland) has led to a massie...with injectable heroin on prescription, as well as oral methadone, needle exchange ...
http://www.progressiveu.org/120941-the-solution-to-heroin-use-at-last

Detox drug is Georgia's new habit
International Herald Tribune - France
... is the name under which buprenorphine, a synthetic ... Designed to treat heroin addicts and first introduced in ... and has all but replaced methadone, another heroin ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/12/news/drug.php

Drug 'cap' limits treatment of addicts
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Rehabilitation Center, the "demand for treating people with heroin addiction has ...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06163/697621-114.stm

Innovations: Alcohol & Drug Abuse: Methadone Maintenance in Europe ...
Psychiatric Services (subscription) - USA
... Krausz M: Maintenance treatment of opiate addicts in Germany with medicationscontaining codeine: results of a follow-up study. Addiction ...
http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/57/6/776

Innovations: Alcohol & Drug Abuse: Narcotics on the Net: The Availability of Web Sites Selling Controlled Substances

http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/1/24

Drug peddlers catch ’em young Hindustan Times - India
... These new addicts spread the menace among their friends and the goal of the ... contacted him complaining about a drug vendor luring studentsfor addiction of drug ...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1713999,0015002500000000.htm

Md. poll: Jail won't stop drugs
The News Journal - Wilmington, DE, USA.
... officials to provide another $30 million a year for addiction services. Baltimore would get about half that money to serve an additional 3,500 addicts annually ...
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060605/NEWS/606050341/-1/NEWS01

Over 10,000 drug addicts in Meerut: Survey
Zee News - Noida,India
Meerut, June 05: There are over 10,000 drug addicts in the age group of 13 and 35 in Meerut, a survey by a local NGO running de-addiction clinicssays...
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=300269&sid=REG

Cheap thrills: Addicts choose charas over coke
Times of India - India
... We treat drug addicts with compassion and music therapy,"said Dr. Shraddha Rai, a psychologist at Naya Rasta, a de-addiction centre. ...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1612618.cms

‘Webidemic�?Emerges as Social Malaise
Korea Times - South Korea
... ``We learned that Internet addicts do not slash their time in front of the PC monitor ... In other words, they are prone to double addiction,’�?Hwang said...
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200606/kt2006060515563511780.htm

Treatment with methadone or buprenorphine has led to a decline in ...
News-Medical.net - Sydney,Australia
... newly published research Switzerland's policy of offering heroin addicts substitution treatment ... users and only serve to extend the period of heroin addiction....
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=18227

Addiction, the great leveller!
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
MUMBAI: “Drug addiction transcends class barriers. Drug addicts range from the filthy rich to the poorest of the poor. A majority...
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1033482

Europe: Swiss Harm Reduction Policy for Heroin Results in Less ...
Drug War Chronicle - Washington, DC, USA.

The Swiss approach includes safe injection sites, needle exchange programs, methadone or buprenorphine maintenance programs, and heroin maintenanceprograms....
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/439/swissresults.shtml

Heroin is a 'loser drug'
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
The liberalisation of drug laws in Zurich has led to a massive fall in the ... with injectable heroin on prescription, as well as oral methadone, needle exchange ...
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=117&art_id=vn20060604115752394C425367

Flying high
MegaStar.co.uk - London,UK
... image of a syringe as they focus on the liberalisation of drug laws in Zurich ... with injectable heroin on prescription, as well as oral methadone, needle exchange ...
http://www.megastar.co.uk/world/news/2006/06/02/sMEG01MTE0OTI0MzQyNDg.html

Take the money out of drugs and break the cycle�?/STRONG>
Sunday Herald - Glasgow, Scotland, UK
... know the truth: that far from combating hard drug-taking, the present laws are promoting ... We already dope them with methadone, so why not give them the related ...
http://www.sundayherald.com/56119

Law aimed at 'doctor shopping'
Potomac News (subscription) - Woodbridge,VA,USA
... have similar programs, according to the National Alliance for ModelState Drug Laws. ... only Schedule II drugs such as OxyContin and methadone, another frequently...
http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WPN%2FMGArticle%2FWPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188189660&path=

Accidental deaths, murders and unintended consequences
Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA
... Authorities say she sold the methadone to Russell that he sold to the teen ...Critics of felony murder laws argue that being responsible for a felony doesn’t ...
http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=LNA%2FMGArticle%2FLNA_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188215063&path=!news!archive

Addiction addicts
The tendency to see addiction in everything from smoking to shopping is a morbid social symptom. by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick:

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000054F1.htm

Harm Reduction Argument Missing the Mark:

http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/lcatton_20060529.html

Chain' cure for heroin addicts:By Rahul Bedi, Indo-Asian News Service

Churachandpur (Manipur), May 26 (IANS) With their ankles shackled, scores of heroin addicts hobble around the crowded yard...(http://www.dailyindia.com/show/29151.php/Chain_cure_for_heroin_addicts_

IBS Unveils Powerful New Approach to Addiction Recovery:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060522005241&newsLang=en

Police chief backs legalised 'drug rooms'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says drug consumption rooms would let addicts take drugs ... Trust, and Prof John Strang, director of the National Addiction Centre...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/23/ndrug23.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/23/ixuknews.html

Child sought help for drug addiction
By Aileen Mulhall

WATERFORD has become a serious blackspot for heroin and cocaine abuse. The county’s addiction treatment services dealt with nearly 40% of the heroin and cocaine users in the region, who sought treatment last year. The Waterford News & Star can also reveal that one child aged between 11 and 13 sought treatment in Waterford for a drug addiction last year.

http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=21938