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Services Under Pressure as Funding Rules Change - 06 May 2008, 08:02
Services Under Pressure as Funding Rules Change. VOLUNTARY sector services for drug users in many parts of Scotland are under pressure as major changes to funding arrangements take effect and threaten to undermine efforts to bring about the Government's new focus on drugs "recovery".... Read on Government and the reclassification of Cannabis - 01 May 2008, 15:00
Drugs agency warns Government over reclassification of cannabis The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) will set itself on a collision course with the Government tomorrow when it seeks to persuade the Home Secretary that cannabis should remain at its current status as a class C d... Read on Work Hours Alcohol Ban for Staff! - 09 Jul 2007, 11:51
Staff face a work hours alcohol ban   Lunchtime drinking could be stopped under new plans to make Britain more healthy From The Sunday TimesJuly 8, 2007 Colin Brennan THE IDEA of banning all alcohol around the workplace is gathering force as the evidence against the demo... Read on An article on the current fabric of society - 09 Jul 2007, 11:47
  Can our broken society be fixed? By Iain Duncan Smith Last Updated: 12:01am BST 08/07/2007 For the last six years, I have visited many of Britain's most deprived and fractured communities and seen levels of breakdown that have appalled and angered me. In the fourth large... Read on North East Drugs Deaths - 02 Jul 2007, 17:00
Drug plague that knows no boundaries Leap in crack deaths in north-east of Scotland In an area where drugs are a fact of life, the discovery of two bodies in a squalid harbourside flat would probably have been regarded as little more than yet another tragic sign of the times. However, ... Read on