http://www.drugnews.org/ Media Awareness Project Drug News en-us Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:02:16 -0700 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:10:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Modperl editor@mapinc.org (MAP Editor) webmaster@mapinc.org (MAP Webmaster) http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v21/n003/a06.html Cowichan Valley Citizen, 03 May 2021 - I have not heard any reporting on what type of drug education our children are receiving in schools. Considering the high number of deaths due to drug overdoses just this year alone, that is 500 in B.C. in the last three months, I would like to know if the schools have any drug prevention education and if so, what is the message? Recently the granddaughter of a friend of mine who is in Grade 7 stated that her teacher said, "if you're going to do drugs, do it safely" =2E Mon, 03 May 2021 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v21/n003/a06.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v21/n004/a01.html Cowichan Valley Citizen, 05 May 2021 - Letter writer Cristina Adam asserted that abstinence-based drug education is the best, adding that "in no uncertain terms there is NO way to take drugs safely." ("Letter: Say no to drugs the best message," May 3) Alas, the "drug abuse resistance education" and "Just say 'no'" messaging Adam recalls from her youth was found to be ineffective, if not counter-productive. DARE graduates and those exposed to such simplistic messaging were actually more likely to experiment with drugs. Wed, 05 May 2021 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v21/n004/a01.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v20/n007/a07.html Victoria News, 24 Jul 2020 - A recent poll suggests 51 per cent of British Columbians are buying all product legally B.C. has had a difficult road to getting cannabis users interested in purchasing from legal retailers over their neighbourhood dealer, but a recent poll suggests that the province may finally be winning the battle over bud. Fri, 24 Jul 2020 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v20/n007/a07.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n017/a04.html Victoria Times-Colonist, 31 Aug 2019 - It is indeed sweet victory to see the B.C. Liquor Corp. selling cannabis. In the B.C. election of 2001, I, as a B.C. Marijuana Party candidate, was arrested at the behest of the Victoria Hillside liquor store for campaigning for legal cannabis. Sat, 31 Aug 2019 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n017/a04.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n015/a01.html The Daily Courier, 20 Aug 2019 - Dear Editor: Contrary to Joe Fries' editorial "Abstinence works best" (Courier, Aug. 16), Rhode Island treats addicted prison inmates with methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone. Like methadone, buprenorphine is an opioid agonist, or replacement opioid. Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that blocks opioid receptors. Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n015/a01.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n014/a04.html The Daily Courier, 15 Aug 2019 - More than half of all Canadians believe drug treatment should focus on abstinence, rather than opioid replacement therapies, according to poll results released this week. Research Co. found 57% of those surveyed were in favour of programs that aim to get people off drugs entirely, rather than programs that supply people with free dope to help keep them healthy and out of trouble. Thu, 15 Aug 2019 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n014/a04.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n014/a01.html Victoria Times-Colonist, 14 Aug 2019 - Re: "Legalizing pot is proving to be a public-health disaster," column, Aug. 11. Lawrie McFarlane's verdict is premature. Legal regulation in Canada isn't analogous to legalization in Colorado, for among other reasons, Colorado allows advertising and initially allowed edibles and extracts with inadequate labelling, packaging and dose limitations. Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n014/a01.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n014/a02.html Victoria Times-Colonist, 14 Aug 2019 - Re: "Legalizing pot is proving to be a public-health disaster," column, Aug. 11. In his opinion piece on cannabis legalization, Lawrie McFarlane cites a short-term increase in the numbers of adolescents visiting emergency rooms for cannabis in Colorado - a jurisdiction with a commercialized approach to cannabis legalization - as evidence that Canada's much more restrictive public health-oriented approach to legalization has failed. Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v19/n014/a02.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v18/n116/a07.html Victoria Times-Colonist, 10 Jun 2018 - The costs and benefits of cannabis and cannabis policies are difficult to calculate, but cannabis legalization will remove many impediments to research. A recent study finding an association between chronic cannabis use by young people and diminished life outcomes acknowledged "while we controlled for multiple potential confounds, it is possible that there are other explanatory mechanisms that have not been accounted for ... in the current study." 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