Jon Snow
Dealing with drugs needs new thinking and new courage
Alan Johnson’s gift to personkind might be to re-engage Professor David Nutt and join with him in calling a halt to a bankrupt method of handling the drugs disaster
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ADHD drugs prescribed to under-sixes against guidelines
Children under the age of six are being dosed with drugs for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD – against all national guidelines, Channel 4 News learns.
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Searching for the missing in Mexico’s drug wars
Thousands of people go missing each year as they try to flee the bloody drug battles in Mexico. Channel 4 News follows one woman’s desperate search to find her son.
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Police cuts report warns of ‘big challenges’
Sir Denis O’Connor says it will be ‘very difficult’ for the police front line to remain intact as budget cuts start to bite.
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NHS spends tens of millions on expensive diabetes drugs
A joint investigation by Channel 4 News and the BMJ reveals the NHS spends tens of millions more than necessary on modern insulins to treat diabetes despite guidance from NICE to use cheaper products.
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Mumbai suspect warned of attacks
Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller exclusively reveals how David Headley – the American linked to the Mumbai attacks – warned of possible strikes just weeks before.
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Probation chiefs’ public protection warning
Exclusive: Probation Service chiefs in England and Wales have issued a clear warning, in a Channel 4 News survey, over their capacity to protect the public if the government goes ahead with plans.
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Mexico narco: blogging on the drug war
Lindsey Hilsum blogs on why it is hard for journalists to report on the increasingly violent drug war in Mexico
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Will £200m saving on NI fund more cancer drugs?
The Conservative Party claims it can pay for all cancer drugs on the NHS from the money it “saves” by not implementing the National Insurance rise.
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Jon Snow
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Faisal Islam
On drugs policy, crime is the elephant in the room
Were the home secretary ever to appoint a panel of independent economists to advise on drugs, those economists might note that there are alternatives to the present drugs policy which could wipe out certain types of crime altogether.
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Jon Snow
Who benefits from the global trade in drugs?
I am in the south looking north, in Latin America, in Colombia. The disconnect is acute. The biggest event of the day? The appearance of the Mexican and Colombian presidents at Davos. No, don’t think Davos rocks here in the Andean foothills, on the rolling desert along the coast. But Latino presidents on the world…
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How did Sean Penn track 'El Chapo' down?
His detention means nothing for the war on drugs if the authorities don’t go after the lawyers, the bankers, the corporations and the politicians.
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New global index ranks countries’ efforts to tackle drug use
A new consortium of drug policy, civil society and community organisations has developed a data index which ranks countries according to how well they’re dealing with the problem
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Duterte: ‘My only sin is the extrajudicial killings’
“My only sin is extrajudicial killings.” That’s the surprise confession the President of the Philippines appeared to make today. It’s the first time Rodrigo Duterte has admitted to the killings which happened during his government’s controversial war on drugs, in which thousands of people are believed to have died.
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Duterte serenades Trump during Asia tour
Donald Trump has hailed his “great relationship” with the controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte at the end of a two-day regional summit in Manila. The two leaders did talk about the country’s brutal war on drugs, which has left thousands of people dead. But, the White House admitted, there was only a brief reference to…
