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		<title>Heroin assisted treatment in Switzerland (includes video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A note from the transcript: there is a group of people that will grow old over the course of time in this treatment. That&#8217;s a good thing. Drug dependence is a medical issue. Prolonging and improving quality of life is a central tenet of good medical treatment. For more information on heroin assisted treatment in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heroin maintenance: the evidence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Policy should be evidence based. The Cochrane Library have recently published a review of the evidence on prescribing heroin (diamorphine). What did they find? According with the current evidence, heroin prescription should be indicated to people who is currently or have previously failed maintenance treatment, and it should be provided in clinical settings where proper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adlrf.org.au/heroin-maintenance-the-evidence/</link>
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		<title>United Kingdom: Injectable Opioid Treatment gets Government go-ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From King&#8217;s College London: IOT [Injectable Opioid Treatment] involves the prescription and supervised self-administration of injectable diamorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) or injectable methadone in a supervised clinical setting for opiate misusers Some patients don&#8217;t respond to our current treatments. This makes the availability of other types of treatment (second line therapy) a good idea. Unfortunately, Australians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adlrf.org.au/united-kingdom-injectable-opioid-treatment-gets-government-go-ahead/</link>
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		<title>Drug war epic wins Sundance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully it receives an Australian release.]]></description>
		<link>http://adlrf.org.au/drug-war-epic-wins-sundance/</link>
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		<title>Evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drug use</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would encourage anyone who is interested in a balanced view of the Portuguese experience to read Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes &#038; Alex Stevens latest paper. A full version of the article can be found here: PDF. It&#8217;s a good article, but there&#8217;s a point about Portugal that a lot of people seem to miss. Cue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adlrf.org.au/evidence-on-the-portuguese-decriminalisation-of-illicit-drug-use/</link>
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		<title>Supply-Centric Drug Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The London School of Economics [LSE] have a new article on their website about the failure of &#8216;supply-centric&#8217; drug policy. They argue that the Single Convention has remained intact because individual states continue to adhere to it rather than having the confidence to chart their own path. Read the full article here.]]></description>
		<link>http://adlrf.org.au/supply-centric-drug-policy/</link>
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		<title>How can we get the media to tell the truth about drugs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor David Nutt recently delivered an interesting lecture at Oxford University which highlights the distortion and bias in media reports about drugs. This is an issue close to home. Watch the lecture here. David Nutt DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci is Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, a Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Head of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adlrf.org.au/how-can-we-get-the-media-to-tell-the-truth-about-drugs/</link>
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		<title>Branson: War on drugs a failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Richard Branson has made the observation that the &#8216;war on drugs&#8217; has been a very costly failure. The Sydney Morning Herald has the story as well as audio commentary by Dr Marianne Jauncey from The Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC). The online polling shows overwhelming support for the decriminalisation of drugs.]]></description>
		<link>http://adlrf.org.au/branson-war-on-drugs-a-failure/</link>
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		<title>DEBATE: &#8220;All drugs should be legalised&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: This debate can now be heard online: LISTEN HERE The post debate results are as follows: Pre-debate poll Post-debate poll For: 46.8% 69% Undecided: 32.3% 8% Against: 20.9% 23% ADLRF President Dr Alex Wodak will be speaking for the affirmative in a Sydney debate put on by IQ2 (St James Ethics Centre: Intelligence Squared) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adlrf.org.au/debate-all-drugs-should-be-legalised/</link>
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		<title>Wars on drugs failing: DPP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared in The Australian on 9 November 2010. It can be viewed in its original context here. NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nick Cowdery QC has released his own legislative agenda. It includes legalising drugs and abandoning the war on terror. Mr Cowdery would also free more people on bail, enact a charter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://adlrf.org.au/wars-on-drugs-failing-dpp/</link>
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