| Drug-Related
Deaths in the UK-Annual Report 2008 November 2008 |
| Increase in the number of Drug-Related Deaths. 3-page
PDF [International Centre for Drug Policy, St George’s, University
of London, UK] |
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| Prevention,
Treatment, and Harm Reduction Services in Prison November
2008 |
| Final Report on Prevention, Treatment, and Harm Reduction
Services in Prison, on Reintegration Services on Release from Prison and
Methods to Monitor/Analyse Drug use among Prisoners. 104 MB PDFD [Europa] |
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| Trends
in drug-related deaths and deaths among drug users in Ireland, 1998 to
2005 November 2008 |
| This data gives a reliable estimate of the total burden
of mortality related to drug use in Ireland. 24-page PDF [HRb, Ireland] |
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| 2008
Annual report: the state of the drugs problem in Europe November
2008 |
| The report on the state of the drugs problem in Europe
presents the EMCDDA's yearly overview of the drug phenomenon. This is an
essential reference book for policymakers, specialists and practitioners
in the drugs field or indeed anyone seeking the latest findings on drugs
in Europe [EMCDDA] |
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| National
Prison Entrants' Bloodborne Virus & Risk Behaviour Survey Report
2004 & 2007 November 2008 |
| Prevalence of HIV, Hepatitic C, Hepatitis B, and risk
behaviours among Australian prison entrants. 148-page PDF [NDRI, Australia] |
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| Monitoring
the supply of cocaine to Europe October 2008 |
| This datasheet provides a short review of key issues
relating to how cocaine is manufactured in Latin America and transported
to European consumers via the Atlantic, Caribbean and west Africa. It also
looks at the destabilising effect of the cocaine trade on producer and
transshipment countries. 29-page
PDF [EMCDDA] |
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| Preliminary
evaluation of the NSW Stimulant Treatment Program October
2008 |
| The evaluation of the Stimulant Treatment Program was
conducted to measure the effectiveness of the model of clinical intervention
for stimulant users and identified key issues relating to service delivery,
and to examine the feasibility of conducting the STP at the two clinics.
31-page PDF [New South Wales Government, Australia] |
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| Drug
trafficking as a security threat in West Africa October 2008 |
| According to a new 54-page
PDF report, a declining US cocaine market and a rising European one
appear to have prompted South American cocaine traffickers to make use
of low-governance areas in West Africa as transit zones [UNODC] |
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