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| Teenage girls are now binge drinking more frequently than boys, according to a report published yesterday. It is the first time girls have outstripped their male peers in excessive alcohol consumption. Experts warned that the rise in young female drinking was an "unprecedented phenomenon" that could threaten the health of a generation of women. Girls in their teens are being treated for alcohol related diseases, according to experts, with a girl aged 17 in Liverpool diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver caused by excessive alcohol consumption. Youth workers said children were turning up drunk to afternoon-activity clubs within hours of the end of school.British teenagers are among the heaviest drinkers in the study, which looked at the habits of 15 and 16 year olds in 35 European countries. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Independent – 15th December 2004 |
| Half of regular smokers of cannabis who are psychologically vulnerable to its effects may end up needing treatment for psychosis, scientists said yesterday. Up to 10% of the adult population, almost four million people, has a tendency to paranoid thoughts or grandiose ideas that may be tipped into psychotic delusions by the effects of the drug, they said. A four-year study of 2,437 people aged 14 to 24 found that of those who smoked cannabis regularly and had a pre-existing risk of psychosis, 50% developed psychotic symptoms over the period. This was twice the rate among those who did not use cannabis and more than three times higher than among those who were neither vulnerable nor took the drug. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Independent – 9th December 2004 |
| The average street price of illegal drugs is at the lowest level for a decade, according to new figures. The cost of a line of cocaine is now less than a glass of wine in some parts of Britain. A tablet of ecstasy costs as little as £1. The figures show widespread falls in the price of heroin, ecstasy, cannabis and cocaine, making hard drugs more affordable than ever before to young people. Dealers are now selling heroin for as little as £35 a gram, compared with more than £80 in 1995, according to the Independent Drugs Monitoring Unit. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Independent On Sunday – 28th November 2004 |
| Nearly 12 million Britons use alcohol to self medicate to relieve symptoms of depression, figures show today. A worryingly-high proportion of adults are dependent on drink and need it to fill a hole in the soul, the new survey revealed.The research by the Priory Group found 23%, or almost 12 million people, have a drink to cheer up when they feel a bit low while 14% use alcohol to give themselves Dutch courage before work or a social event. It also showed more than one in five (21%) admitted to having had a drink to relax or lose their inhibitions before making love. According to the research, a third of adults in the West Midlands (33%) drink when they get depressed..The survey, carried out by ICM for the Daily Mirror, also found that 76% of people thought Prime Minister Tony Blair was losing the war on drugs. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Sentinel – 22nd November 2004 |
| Internet porn can be more harmful to society than crack cocaine, according to evidence submitted to a US senate committee. The Science, Technology and Space sub-committee is looking at creating awareness campaigns about the dangers of pornography addiction caused by 'erototoxins'. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Computing – 2nd December 2004 |
| Almost half of prisoners addicted to drugs fail to complete rehabilitation courses designed to help them kick the habit, the Home Office has admitted.Eight out of 10 arrivals at some inner-city jails have a serious drug habit and prisons are struggling to rehabilitate addicts already behind bars, Home Office figures indicate. Paul Goggins, a Home Office minister, said that of 4,703 inmates who started intensive drug treatment programmes in 2003-04, only 51% finished them. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Independent – 25th November 2004 |
| Drug abuse is widespread at British secondary schools, according to a survey of more than 1,000 teenage girls. 71% told a poll by Cosmogirl that cannabis was regularly used at their schools, despite a wealth of anti-drug messages from the Government. The poll shows that a third of its readers smoke, says the magazine, while more than half drink, most of them illegally - results which will dismay ministers whose recently published White Paper on health attempts to cut down consumption of both tobacco and alcohol. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Independent – 21st November 2004 |
| Nearly 4 out of 5 young Europeans say getting hold of illegal drugs is easy according to one of the largest surveys carried out into young people's attitudes towards drug taking. Most teenagers and young adults living in Europe experiment with cannabis, ecstasy and cocaine out of curiosity but a growing number, 21% compared with 16% two years ago, say drug taking is a recreational hobby. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Independent on Sunday - 7th November 2004 |
| Young British women top Europe's binge league downing an average 203 litres of alcoholic drinks a year, the equivalent of 270 bottles of wine. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Daily Mail - 24th September 2004 |
| Just some statistics from the Department of Health and NHS regarding alcohol; It's estimated to kill 28 to 30,000 people a year in the UK and over two million worldwide; Sickness and absenteesism cost industry £641 million per year; 20% of all accidents at work are alcohol related; The cost of treating alcohol related disease for the NHS is £167 million per year; Alcohol is a major factor in 76,000 hospital cases of facial injury, 65% of suicide attempts and 23% of calls to child neglect helplines. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Joy Magazine - Novemeber 2004 |
| Liverpool was poised to follow in the footsteps of Ireland and New York last night after councillors voted for the city to become the first in Britain to ban smoking in public.Liverpool has one of the worst death rates from smoking related diseases in the UK, with more than 1,000 dying every year. Of these, 100 are thought to be killed by passive smoking, according to figures released by the city council. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Independent – 21 October 2004 |
| More than half the population, including two-thirds of the women asked, have told pollsters they would not want a casino to open near their homes. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Independent On Sunday – 24 October 2004 |
| A majority of drug addicts would rather receive help to kick their habit than be taught how to use drugs safely, a report said today. Nearly 57% of drug addicts wanted treatment courses to help them get off drugs rather than offer 'harm reduction' initiatives such as methadone programmes or clean needles, researchers at Glasgow University found. Drug treatment centres may need to re-assess their tactics in light of the findings, the report said. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Sentinel – 14 October 2004 |
| An increasing number of young people pretend to take drugs in order to impress their friends. Research carried out by Frank, the free national drugs information service supported by the Department of Health, revealed that one in five teenagers lies about drug taking in order to fit in with their tribe. Boys are twice as likely as girls to succumb to this type of peer pressure. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Youthwork – November 2004 |
| Four years ago, before an acknowledged explosion in gambling in Britain, as many as 400,000 people were said to have a problem with betting, the research - the last extensive study to be conducted - estimated that 0.8 per cent of the adult population was struggling with addiction. Adrian Scarfe, a clinical practice manager for the charity GamCare, has no doubt that a new study would produce more frightening figures. Some have suggested it could reach 700,000 by 2010. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Independent - 20 October 2004 |
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