Nov 8 Drug Headlines

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PAINKILLERS - US
Antioxidants may make more effective pain-killers than morphine - SAWFS News
A new research on a mouse model has boffins hopeful that antioxidant-based pain killers will, in the future, become a viable alternative to addictive medications such as morphine.

MARIJUANA - US
Major marijuana initiatives defeated - Personal Blog
Efforts to legalize marijuana for either recreational or medical use were defeated yesterday in three states. In Colorado, where Amendment 44 sought to legalize possession of an ounce of pot for adults, only 38% of the voters favored the inititative.

ALCOHOL - UK
Alcohol dependence: International policy implications for prison populations
Results - Alcohol dependence emerged as the most prevalent substance use disorder in both UK prisons and in the US sample. Relative frequencies of abuse and dependence for alcohol and other drugs revealed that dependence on a given substance was more prevalent than abuse as defined by the current diagnostic criteria.

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GENERAL - UK
Charles demands help for a lost generation - Telegraph
The Prince of Wales will today highlight the plight of 1.2 million unemployed and under-educated young people facing a grim future because they have been abandoned "on the margins of society".
2006, November 8

ALCOHOL - US
Alcohol Bad For Lungs As Well As Liver - Medical News Today
Chronic alcohol abuse disrupts the proteins that keep fluids out of the lung, lowers a protective antioxidant, disrupts immune defenses and can lead to a condition known as 'alcoholic lung,' according to research to be presented at the conference, "Physiological Genomics and Proteomics of Lung Disease."
2006, November 8

OPIUM - AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan 'to spray poppy crop' - e-Ariana
The Afghan government has for the first time accepted that aerial chemical spraying could be considered to curb the cultivation of opium poppies. Poppy production across Afghanistan has increased by 60% since 2005.

OPIUM - AFGHANISTAN
Tajiks Struggle to Stem Tide of Drugs - IWPR
Narcotics experts are predicting a surge in illicit drugs entering Tajikistan en route to Russia and Europe following the record opium harvest in Afghanistan. They are calling for joint efforts to create a security belt around Afghanistan to check the flow of drugs.

PRESCRIPTION - US
Students Abusing 'Smart Drugs' To Keep Grades Up - CBS2 Chicago
For years, students pulling all-nighters have gulped coffee to stay awake. But now growing numbers are popping pills -- and not to party.

PRESCRIPTION - UK
Revealed: The thousands of drug addicts - Chronicle LIve
A lost generation of over the counter prescription pill addicts is today revealed. It is thought as many as 45,000 people in the North East are in the grip of addictions to sleeping pills and drugs like Valium, diazepam and temazepam.

ALCOHOL - UK
Rapid Rise in U.K. Alcohol Deaths Reported - Join Together
Alcohol-related deaths in the U.K. have risen from 4,144 in 1991 to 8,386 last year, according to the Office for National Statistics.