000367 23/11/98
E.U. / NL
ADDICITION
DIE PRESSE
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A research conducted by the Jellinek-Klinik in 13 high schools shows that adolescents often use cocaine during parties, and that alcohol and marijuana have not lost their popularity.
000357 19/11/98
E.U. / FRANCE
ADDICTION
LE FIGARO
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The first official report on violence in French schools shows that 10% of the violent events that happen is related to drugs.
000358 19/11/98
E.U. / GERMANY
ADDICTION
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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Three years ago drug addicts started to hope that they could stop using drugs quickly and without pain through the Urod therapy. New tests performed on animals show instead that with Urod abstinence effects last longer and are phisically harder than with other therapies.
000359 26/11/98
E.U. / ITALY
ADDICTION
PANORAMA
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An article in Panorama describes an evening with the Anonymous Narcotists. They sit around a table, talk about their experiences and about how they can stop using drugs. Often, in fact, they manage to do so. There are 43 of these centres in 14 Italian cities, and help is offered via phone and Internet.
000350 23/11/98
E.U. / ITALY
CONSUMERS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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The Minister of Interiors has had a meeting with members of the Antagonist Movement. There is a basis for dialogue , but not on the theme of drugs, because the Minister is against legalising ilght drugs.
000351 20/11/98
E.U. / GB
CONSUMERS
EL PAIS / LIBERATION / THE TIMES
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The British Police has sounded an alarm about the diffusion of two new syinthetic drugs that have effects 33 times more powerful than the ones caused by ecstasy. One of these substances, called flatiner, has already caused three death cases in the past months. The other is called DOB, and is even stronger.
000361 24/11/98
E.U. / GB
CONSUMERS
THE TIMES
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A report by the Prison Service says that pisoners manage to carry drugs and other black market goods in and out of the prison by using paper airplanes that get flown over the external walls.
000352 20/11/98
E.U. / ITALY
CRIME
IL SOLE 24 ORE
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An ISTAT research shows that petty crime has by now spread all over, and that there no longer are any 'crime free' areas. The research has registered 48,2 crimes regarding drug production and sale per every 100 thousand inhabitants. This type of offence is the third most frequent after robberies and theft.
000362 23/11/98
AMERICA / USA
CRIME
LA REPUBBLICA
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A new report by the FBI shows an inversion of tendencies regarding crime. All sorts of offences are diminishing, and generally speaking the atmosphere in big cities is different. Young people of the 'crack generation' have had an opportunity to work and to build a future for themselves, and therefore the consumption of drugs and the spreading of viloence have diminished.
000364 23/11/98
AMERICA / MEXICO
DRUG MAFIA
FRANKFURTER
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The so-called 'war on drugs' has shown to be a failure. The DEA says that Mexican drug traffickers handle a gross budget of 30 billion USD a year (10% of the country's entire earning). Not only, but Mexico's most famous pop groups sell thousands of copies of their records by singing the heroic lives of the drug mafia bosses.
000356 19/11/98
E.U. / GB
HEALTH
THE TIMES
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Dr Thomas Stuttaford, who is against any hypothesis of therapeutic use of cannabis, has shown all the dangerous effects it can have. Loss of memory, psychotic syndromes, phisical symptoms from abstinence, greater risk of cancer, leukaemia in children of women who have used cannabis...
000363 18/11/98
EUROPE
INFORMATION
LE FIGARO 18/11 / CORRIERE DELLA SERA 22/11 / L'EXPRESS 25/11
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legalization of cannabis and relative legislation have been discussed during the European Week on Prevention of Drug Addiction. 15 countries of the European Union have agreed to use the same information campaign for young people.
000353 19/11/98
E.U. / GERMANY / MUNICH
INITIATIVE
FRANKFURTER
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Bavaria does not have centres for controlled distribution of heroin like Frankfurt does, but Munich has an automatic siringe dispenser. The machine, although, attracts drug pushers and when the siringes have been used they usually end up in the litter, where children can find them.
000354 20/11/98
E.U. / SPAIN
PREVENTION
EL PAIS
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Mr. Gonzalo Robles, of the Plan Nacional Sobre Drogas, is working especially on prevention. He has released the outcome of a special information programme for 11 and 12 year old students who live in socially dangerous areas. The consumption of alcohol has been reduced by 47% and the consumption of tobacco has been reduced by 24%.
000355 19/11/98
E.U. / GB
PREVENTION
THE TIMES
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The Government has launched a new anti-drug campaign for young people that works through a special Internet website. The site is although linked with several other ones in which the positive effects of using LSD and smoking marijuana are explained.
000365 24/11/98
E.U.. / GERMANY / MAINZ
PREVENTION
FRANKFURTER
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Politicians and experts of various extraction have met in Mainz to discuss future policies on drugs. The only real point on which everyone agreed is that more money must be invested in prevention.
000366 22/11/98
E.U. / GB
PREVENTION
THE TIMES
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Since militaries have to pass antidrug tests and are expelled if found positive, why shouldn't the civillian personnel that work with them have to undergo the same treatment? This is the object of a discussion between the army and worker unions.
000368 22/11/98
E.U. / ITALY
TRAFFIC
IL MESSAGGERO 22/11 / LA REPUBBLICA 23/11
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Human Rights Watch and the American secret services say that the presence in Italy of Ocalan, leader of the PKK, is a good pretext to remind everyone that he also is the leader of a group that finances itself thruogh drug traffic by using, among others, the 'baby pushers' of Hamburg.
000360 19/11/98
AMERICA / COLUMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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The Columbian Ambassador in USA has presented the Americans with a very singular proposal by his Government: if 50 cows are given to every Columbian family that grows coca, this will induce them to change their jobs.
