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By politics.co.uk staff Drug users can recover quicker if they do not have to face stigmatising terms like ‘junkie’ and ‘addict’, a leading drug thinktank has warned. The UK Drugs Policy Commission study, ‘Sinning and Sinned Against: The Stigmatisation of Problem Drug Users’, found much of the media’s coverage of drug addiction to be unhelpful… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The government will slap 12-month temporary bans on new substances as they emerge, the minister for crime prevention confirmed today. The plans, which had been proposed by home secretary Theresa May, will be put in legislation allowing for a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison and an unlimited fine for suppliers… Read more »
