Focus: Drink, drugs and rape
27-February-2005, United Kingdom, Times Online
A new study shows more rapes are reported now than ever before but convictions are falling. Experts blame the new binge drinking culture, reports Lois Rogers
It’s a typical Saturday night in south London and 50 or more young adults are ...
Who paid for the drugs?
27-February-2005, United Kingdom, The Independent
They buy fair-trade coffee, recycle their papers and worry about the environment. Then they buy a gram of coke that leaves children's blood on their hands. Steve Bloomfield travels to Colombia to see the horrific cost of Britain's middle-class ...
New Study Says Parents More Laid Back About Drugs
25-February-2005, United States, KWTX
A survey released Tuesday today finds fewer parents are talking to their kids about drug use and fewer would be upset if their children experimented with marijuana.
According to the survey, the number of parents who have never spoken with their ...
Author: Bush tapes not meant for public
21-February-2005, United States, CNN.com
An author who secretly recorded his conversations with then-Gov. George W. Bush told CNN Monday that the tapes were a historical record that he never wanted made public.
Doug Wead -- a former aide to President Bush's father, George H.W. Bush -- ...
Mexican schools provide drug songs
21-February-2005, Mexico, CNN.com
Mexico's school libraries are stocking a book that includes the lyrics of "narcocorridos" -- folk songs that glorify drug traffickers -- causing a storm of criticism in a country where the drug market and its violence have become part of life in ...
New Miss Madison speaks out about date rape drugs
21-February-2005, United States, The Capital Times
A year and a half ago, UW-Madison student Greta Hafeman spent 17 hours unconscious, the victim of a "date rape" drug.
Although she was not sexually assaulted, she nonetheless felt violated. She has focused much of her free time and energy since ...
Secret Tapes Show Bush's Concern Over Past
21-February-2005, United States, Michaelmoore.com
President Bush was concerned "his mistakes as a youth" would disqualify him from running for the nation's highest office, said an old friend who secretly recorded private conversations in which Bush appears to acknowledge past drug use.
"I don't ...
David Davis: Drugs Bill is all talk but no action
18-January-2005, United Kingdom, Conservative Party
Speaking ahead of the Government's Drugs Bill which will be debated in Parliament today Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said:
"This Bill is not a solution to many of the problems that this Government has itself created over the last 7 ...
Tories Urge Compulsory Drugs Tests in Schools
06-January-2005, United Kingdom, Scotsman.com
Schools should be able to force pupils to be tested for drugs, the Tories said today.
A Kent school has introduced random drug-testing, but only those students willing to take part will be tested.
But shadow education secretary Tim Collins ...
Ibiza police losing war on drugs
05-January-2005, Spain, BBC News
Spanish police are failing to stamp out the drug problem in the clubbers' resort of Ibiza because of a lack of resources, a BBC documentary can reveal.
The programme Drugland, to be broadcast on BBC Two on Thursday night, reveals that the ...
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