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L<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 1" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=1"> PILOT ISSUE 2 | NOVEMBER 2008 REPO</a>RTING ON GLOBAL DRUGS ISSUES l l l Cash injection How Georg
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 2" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=2"> EDITORIAL DrugScope is the UK’s leading indepen</a>dent centre of information and expertise on drugs and the UK membership organisation for the drugs sector. Our aim is to inform policy development and
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 3" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=3"> PILOT ISSUE 2 | NOVEMBER 2008 Druglink Internatio</a>nal 8 12 Cover photo: Justyna Mielnikiewicz DrugScope Prince Consort House 109–111 Farringdon Road L
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 4" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=4"> NEWS Estonia tops global list of drug user HIV</a> blackspots One fifth of the world's 16 million known injecting drug users are believed to be infected with HIV, according to a global evidence revi
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 5" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=5"> NEWS Human rights groups on alert after Cambod</a>ian clampdown Hundreds of drug users, sex workers, beggars and homeless people remain locked up in detention camps after being arrested as part of a
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 6" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=6"> DRUG TESTING Picture: Timo Vogt ON THE DRUGS FR</a>ONTLINE IN GEORGIA Park life: a street kid sniffs glue in Tbilisi In a country raking in 100 times more in drug ?nes than it spends on treatment,
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 7" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=7"> Tsereteli now says that the new laws will “d</a>e?ne users as patients rather than criminals, and give them more motivation to get treatment”. He talks about harm reduction and preventing the spread
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 8" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=8"> Red Army: Russian tanks roll into Georgia in Augu</a>st GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR TREATMENT PROGRAMMES IS MISERLY Moral high ground: the Tabori monastery in the hills above Tbilisi is one
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 9" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=9"> Picture: Justyna Mielnikiewicz created rehabil</a>itation centres and forced people to undergo treatment instead of ?ning them.” Georgia's traditional social values mean that family bonds remain
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 10" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=10"> CROP ERADICATION Pictures: Fredy Builes CROP C</a>IRCLES An intense manual eradication programme, carried out by an army of the rural poor, has become the latest tactic in the battle to choke Colomb
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 11" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=11"> signi?cantly safer. Now, after an intense m</a>ilitary campaign that was crowned with the high-pro?le rescues of hostages such as French-Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt in July,
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 12" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=12"> Plant warfare: heavily-armed soldiers provide the</a> uprooters with protection from angry coca farmers ‘AS SOON AS THEY ARE GONE, I’LL BE PLANTING MORE COCA’ 10
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 13" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=13"> In it for the money: “I will work hard and make m</a>oney any way I can. I am just the same as the coca farmers,” one eradicator told Druglink International 2007, coca production was up 27%. In 2
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 14" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=14"> WOMEN Pictures: Ash Sweeting </a> Nowhere to
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 15" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=15"> The desert oasis Drug addiction is on the rise </a>in the Afghan capital Kabul, yet there is only one place where women can go for help. Nadene Ghouri visits the Sanga Amaj treatment centre, a tempora
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 16" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=16"> with both things.” Medina's shrapnel injurie</a>s could probably have been treated by a doctor, but for many Afghans ordinary medicine is out of reach. There are scant few properly trained doctors l
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 17" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=17"> The Gulf emirate of Dubai has seen a number of hi</a>gh pro?le arrests of Westerners caught with minute quantities of drugs. Steve Sampson reports on a culture clash where the real punishment is saved fo
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 18" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=18"> Sihdra is not alone is seeking clemency. UK </a>foreign of?ce ?gures reveal that 59 British citizens were arrested in the UAE in 2007 on drug-related offences for minute amounts of contraband. They
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 19" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=19"> numbers by Westerners who mainly work in executiv</a>e roles in the booming sectors of ?nance, real estate and construction. But both groups are swamped by more than one million South Asians, mainly
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 20" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=20"> MEDIA The real deal A ground-breaking TV ser</a>ies about police and gangs in the US city of Baltimore has shone a revealing light on the war on drugs. Peter McDermott explains how the realism of T
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 21" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=21"> Picture: Paul Schiraldi/HBO </a> Tales from the street: drug squad detectives quiz dealers on the streets of Baltimore in The Wire seen in similar areas in the real A
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 22" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=22"> In the nineteenth century, Americans c</a>olonial powers, led by the Americans, were consuming large quantities of created an international drug control opium, morphine and coca
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 23" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=23"> I just want to be your teddy bear: Elvis Presley,</a> with US president Richard Nixon in 1970, after the singer became a federal Agent at Large for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. The King f
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 24" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=24"> The Conventions themselves pay only scant at</a>tention to non- enforcement activity. Article 38 of the Single Convention only thought it 'desirable' that Member States establish treatment facilitie
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 25" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=25"> UN DRUG POLICY The human factor Kasia </a>Malinowska-Sempruch of the Open Society Institute argues that grass roots evidence of the negative impact of drug policies can be more effective in
<a title="DruglinkInternational08 page 26" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wrtthh&pageid=26"> promoting drug law reform and questioning the wis</a>dom of the drug treaties. Their view, often simpli?ed and misinterpreted, reinforced the feeling that NGOs equalled trouble. It was clear that the UN
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