For info -  the EU have this week released their revised Drugs Action Plan.  The plan is available in all the usual languages through the following link:

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/192&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en



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This may be of some interest to some list members.  A series of programmes on BBC TV will show a group of heroin users detoxifying.  It's not clear from the advanced publicity what happens to them when they are clean - whether there are ongoing treatment programmes in place or not.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4731376.stm


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Volume 25 Number 1/January 2006 of Drug and Alcohol Review is now available on the journalsonline.tandf.co.uk web site at http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk.

The following URL will take you directly to the issue:

http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=P77526U171RH

This issue contains:

Special Issue: Smoking cessation research

Reflections on smoking cessation research     
p. 1  
Robyn Richmond

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=J76L465Q17821451

Reflections on 30+ years of smoking cessation research: from the individual to the world      
p. 5  
Harry A. Lando

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=G0230217172P2116

Reflections on smoking relapse research
p. 15 
Saul Shiffman

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=W6W5133402531N06

Role of the general practitioner in smoking cessation 
p. 21 
Nicholas A. Zwar, Robyn L. Richmond

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=P0562065U7M0X1M4

Tobacco cessation in dental settings: research findings and future directions 
p. 27 
Judith S. Gordon, Edward Lichtenstein, Herbert H. Severson, Judy A. Andrews

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=U230557360P8871M

A web-based smoking cessation and prevention curriculum for medical students: why, how, what, and what next   
p. 39 
Linda L. Pederson, Daniel S. Blumenthal, Alan Dever, Gene McGrady

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=X6833N266GX75068

Tailored communications for smoking cessation: past successes and future directions * 
p. 49 
Wayne F. Velicer, James O. Prochaska, Colleen A. Redding

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=HK88687R61302460

Developments in pharmacotherapy for tobacco dependence: past, present and future      
p. 59 
Jonathan Foulds, Michael B. Steinberg, Jill M. Williams, Douglas M. Ziedonis

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=X55142277G635WL7

The potential of quitlines to increase smoking cessation      
p. 73 
Ron Borland, Catherine J. Segan

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=W09648856QQ43633

The internet and the industrial revolution in smoking cessation counselling   
p. 79 
Jean-Francois Etter

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=V232N6687M67N6U0

Where there's smoke, there's fire: high prevalence of smoking among some sub-populations and recommendations for intervention 
p. 85 
Amanda Baker, Rowena G. Ivers, Jenny Bowman, Tony Butler, Frances J. Kay-Lambkin, Paula Wye, Raoul A. Walsh, Lisa Jackson Pulver, Robyn Richmond, Josephine Belcher, Kay Wilhelm, Alex Wodak

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=PX151848273W1646

Smoking cessation and depression: current knowledge and future directions     
p. 97 
Kay Wilhelm, Lucinda Wedgwood, Heather Niven, Frances Kay-Lambkin

URL of article: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=J2PWH8R312521663


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