000224 04/09/98
E.U. / GB /
DRUG ADDICT
THE TIMES 04/09 / CORRIERE DELLA SERA 05/09
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Recent research found that among young phisicians in their first years of specialization 35% of the men and 19% of the women use marijuana , whilst 10% use LSD, ecstasy and anphetamines.
000231 09/09/98
E.U. / ITALY
DRUG ADDICT
LA REPUBBLICA / CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The region of Emilia Romagna will distribute a life saving kit for drug addicts. It will be made of a keyring that contains a dose of narcan, a pharmaceutical product that is capable of stopping a heroin overdose. The aim of this initiative is to diminish the number of deaths related to drug use.
000232 09/09/98
AMERICA / USA
DRUG ADDICT
HERALD TRIBUNE
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Mike Gray, the writer, talks about a television program on the Liverpool project of controlled distribution of heroin and on the benefits that patients under treatment can have on the social and sanitary levels. In the USA, thanks to a rigid policy, drug addicts are desperate and involved in criminal acts.
000225 31/08/98
E.U. / SPAIN
DRUG ADDIC / ECSTASY
CAMBIO 16
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The most recent inquiry by the Plan Nacional Sobre Drogas indicates that the use of ecstasy has stabilized in 1997, involving 1,1 % of the Spanish poulation between 15 and 65 years of age.
000228 07/09/98
E.U. / ITALY
INITIAITVE
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The singer Vasco Rossi, speaking from his concert stage, recently spoke in favour of legalizing hashisch and marijuana. Renato Zero criticized this saying that Vasco Rossi 'cannot' use the concert stage for disseminating such imprudent messages. He maintains that legalization of drugs would not solve the problem.
000227 07/09/98
E.U. / GB / LONDON
INITIATIVE
IL GIORNALE
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In order to keep heroin addicts from injecting themselves with this drug in changing booths and toilets, Woolsworths stores have installed ultraviolet light emitters that make it impossible to distinguish veins under the skin and hence injection.
000229 04/09/98
E.U. / GB
INITIATIVE
THE TIMES
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120 billion have been appropriated to fight drug use among young men and women. The alarm was sounded after a research poroject showed that the recent low grades of school exams are in part due to the wide-spread effect of drug consumption.
000226 04/09/98
E.U. / SPAIN
JURISPRUDENCE
EL PAIS 04/09 / SUEDDEUTSCHE Z. 05/09
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The Supreme Court has established that public toilets are to be considered private space. Therefore, unless they have a search warrant, the police cannot raid such places in search of drug addicts.
000221 07/09/98
E.U. / GB
MARKET
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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A tory member of the House of Lords has been accused of cocaine dealing. A journalist posing as a cocaine user tricked the conservative politician into selling him two grams of drug and the incident was immediately reported.
000222 06/09/98
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
PRODUCERS
LE MONDE 06/08 / CORRIERE DELLA SERA 07/08
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After managing to eliminate the typical odour of cocaine, the Colombian producers of the drug now use a process to turn it black so that it can pass customs and police controls undetected. The cocaine can then be immersed in a solution which restores the original colour.
000223 04/09/98
AMERICA / BOLIVIA / LA PAZ
PRODUCERS
FRANKFURTER / NEUE ZUERCHER Z.
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Thousands of cocaine growers from Chapare have marched on the Capital in protest against the Government's policy of eliminating illegal cocaine cultivation by year 2000
000230 08/09/98
ASIA / AFGHANISTAN
PRODUCERS
LA REPUBBLICA
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Pakistan thinks that through its holy war it will convince the western countries to prefer it to Iran as a partner and to finance the building of an oli duct in Afghanistan. Nonetheless the Talibans will harldy give up exporting opium and terrorism and therefore a part of Europe semms to be favourable to an Afghan regime based on tribal democracy.
