ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #31, August 9 1999
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Weekly Action Report on Drug Policies
Edited by the CORA - Radical Antiprohibitionist Coordination, federated to
- TRP-Transnational Radical Party (NGO, consultive status, I)
- The Global Coalition for Alternatives to the Drug War
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000732 05/08/99
E.U. / FRANCE
DRUG ADDICTION
PANORAMA
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A French team has obtained significant results in the containment of cocaine addiction by feeding BP897, a molecule that reduces drug dependency, to rats. This substance acts on the same perceptors in the brain as does dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and drug effects.
000733 03/08/99
E.U. / ITALY
DRUG TRAFFIC
LA REPUBBLICA
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Thirteen-year-old children who live off the drug trade have been discovered in a section of Catania. They are known as 'cavallini', little horse, because they are free to 'gallop' through the streets selling drugs even after the police have preferred charges against them. 19.6 per cent of the juveniles in detention are there for drug-related offences.
000730 31/07/99
E.U. / ITALY
HEALTH
IL MESSAGGERO
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The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction for manslaughter and failure to provide assistance the duty physician of Rome's Umberto I hospital who in 1992 refused treatment of a young overdosed heroin addict who subsequently died.
000731 29/07/99
E.U / GERMANY
INITIATIVE
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z. / LA REPUBBLICA
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In the first six months of 1999, drug-related deaths increased to 798 from 735 in the same period in 1998. The Green Party's Christa Nickels, responsible for the federal government's drug policy, has reaffirmed that the Schroeder administration is preparing a law that would legalise supervised aid to addicts, as already in use several of the Laender.
000735 03/08/99
E.U. / GERMANY
INITIATIVE
FRANKFURTER
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The German Caritas organisation welcomes a proposal by the federal government for the normalisation and regulation of centres for the treatment of drug addicts. Caritas asks the federal government and the Laender to promote the proliferation of such institutions.
000728 29/07/99
E.U. / FRANCE
JUSTICE
LE MONDE
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The European Court of Human Rights has found France guilty of torture in the case of a prisoner. The offence took place in 1991, when one Ahmed Salmouni was stopped on a drug charge and was subjected to physical abuse that court held to be torture.
000729 03/08/99
E.U. / ITALY
JUSTICE
IL GIORNALE
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'Stick drugwipe' is the name of a new device issued experimentally to the Highway Police in the Veneto. It can determine the presence of drug residues in perspiration 'wiped' from the skin.
000734 03/08/99
AMERICA / COLOMBIA
WAR ON DRUGS
LA STAMPA
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In war-savaged Colombia the ever-more effective 'armies of liberation' have largely taken over drug production. The profit is converted into armaments.
