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Brexit: Is stockpiling of foods and drugs reassuring?
Project Fear or Project Near? As the prospect of the UK falling out of the EU without a deal looms, Theresa May says precautions to stop supplies of medicines and basic foodstuffs running low should reassure us all. Brexiteers, though, say talk of stockpiling is scaremongering to persuade wavering MPs to back the Prime Minister’s…
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Children at UK hospital given ‘truth’ drug, stripped and abused for decades
Shocking details of abuse at a hospital in Derbyshire, which started just after the war and continued to the 1970s, have come to light today. A police report has found that 65 children were allegedly given the experimental “truth” drug, sodium amytal. They were also stripped and abused. The allegations involve Dr Kenneth Milner, who…
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Doctors should be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis, say government drug advisers
Doctors in the UK should be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis, according to the government’s chef drug advisers, after an initial review found there was evidence it could have “therapeutic benefit” for patients with some conditions. The review process was launched by the Home Secretary Sajid Javid after several high-profile cases involving children with epilepsy…
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New ovarian cancer drug available on NHS
It’s notorious as being one of the most difficult diseases to detect in its crucial early stages, and survival rates here are poorer than in the rest of Europe. Most types of ovarian cancer, once diagnosed, are treated with chemotherapy. But a new breakthrough drug, called niraparib, is being made available on the NHS. It…
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Three men arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs at music festival
Police have arrested three men on suspicion of supplying class A drugs after a teenage girl and a young man died at a music festival in Portsmouth. Georgia Jones, who was 18, and 20-year-old Tommy Cowan died after they were taken to hospital on Saturday night. Georgia’s mother, Janine Milburn, described her daughter as “full…
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Children denied cancer drug on cost grounds
Children with a rare form of cancer will not get a new drug on the NHS. The treatment offers hope of extending life, or even curing the disease. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, issued interim guidance today saying the drug was too expensive. Now families say they are faced with…
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HIV rates among Glasgow drug users ‘not under control’
Last month, we brought you a report from Dundee, where the death rate from drugs is higher than almost anywhere in the European Union. A very close second to the drug death rates of Dundee is the city of Glasgow, which for three years now has been in the midst of an unprecedented HIV outbreak.…
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Former drug user Leslie Chandler: ‘I had many overdoses and near-death experiences’
Leslie Chandler, a former heroin and crack cocaine user who is now clean, studying at university and volunteers for the drug and alcohol charity Addaction, and Scotland’s Minister for Health, Aileen Campbell, discuss drugs.
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Scotland’s drug deaths crisis
We can reveal the major drugs plight of Dundee in Scotland, a city where the scale of drugs deaths is greater than anywhere in the UK, which in turn has by far the highest death rate in the European Union. Channel 4 News has learnt that in January alone there were 12 suspected…
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How should the drug-dependent homeless be helped?
Out in the cold and dependent on drugs. Britain’s second city, Birmingham, is facing a twin crisis: high levels of homelessness and drug use.
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Lynnette Kelly and Victor Adebowale on drug consumption rooms
West Midlands Assistant Police and Crime Commissioner, Dr Lynnette Kelly, and Lord Victor Adebowale, the chief executive of Turning Point discuss homelessness and drug abuse.
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Women’s deaths from drug misuse up 95 per cent in a decade
The number of women dying as a result of drug misuse has risen by 95 per cent in England and Wales in the last ten years. While fewer women are taking drugs, record numbers are dying from using them. Anja Popp talks to people whose lives have been affected by drug deaths and addiction.
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Leesa Davies: ‘Laws show people drugs are dangerous’
Leesa Davies, whose son Jordan died after inhaling nitrous oxide when he was just 21, and Niamh Eastwood, from the charity Release, discuss the drug laws.
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Steve Rolles and Peter Hitchens discuss drug tests at festivals
Steve Rolles, Senior Policy Analyst at Transform Drug Policy Foundation, and the journalist and author Peter Hitchens discuss drug tests at festivals.
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Drug tests at festivals: prioritising safety or condoning illegal drug use?
It’s the summer and for hundreds of thousands that means a trip to a music festival. But along with beer and bands, illegal substances also feature for many gig goers. Now the Boomtown Fair in Hampshire has become one of the first festivals to offer on-site drug testing. But with drug deaths at a record…
