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A Phoenix House treatment center in Norway is denied funding, on the basis of short sighted decision based on a competitive policy regarding treatment facilities.

Brazil has dealt with the problems of violent and hurtful behavior during football matches by prohibiting alcohol on the tribunes. FIFA seems to be listening more to industrial marketing forces than concerns for an event that everyone can enjoy.

WASHINGTON, June 26 2006 (UNODC) - Cocaine consumption in western Europe is reaching alarming levels while opium production in Afghanistan could rise again this year despite a welcome decline in 2005, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, said on Monday.

Each year alcohol kills 115.000 people in Europe and costs 125 billion euros to EU society. This is equivalent to 1.3% GDP.

The Drugs Policy Platform for Actis - which was adopted in September 2004 is now available also in English.

At the EURAD summit meeting in Oslo recently the advantages and disadvantages of student drug testing programmes were debated. A new programme is compiled and written by C. E. Edwards & The Student Drug-Testing Coalition. The EURAD board thought it useful to discuss this program, and therefore decided to link to it from their Website, as well as from the sites of the member org...