Cut prison drugs, ministers urged
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Senior police officers are urging ministers to do more to cut the amount of illegal drugs smuggled into prisons.
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A study reveals that environmental improvements such as cleaner cells could cut violence in UK jails.
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A Â£1.4m study will examine the impact of vitamins and other nutritional supplements on jail inmates' discipline.
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will write to 16 million households across Italy asking them to cut down on medicines they do not need, for the sake of their own health and the government's coffers.
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The nation's drugs laws are inadequate, media-motivated and should be replaced by a system that recognises the harm to health of subtances like alcohol and tobacco, a study recommended Thursday.
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Plans to offer more drug treatments to sex offenders to help cut reoffending are being unveiled by ministers.
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Doctors are calling for stricter alcohol laws in a bid to reduce the number of alcohol-related deaths.
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Ministers are to reintroduce a ban on strikes by prison officers, after they pulled out of a voluntary agreement.
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MPs want better delivery of community sentencing of youths after finding more than 50% were not finishing their programmes.
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The government is to launch what it says is the country's biggest public consultation on tackling drugs.
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A report is expected to say a radical new approach is needed if drug laws are to work in the UK.
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&quot;We are losing a lot of women. It&#39;s not fair for them to die when the drugs are there but they can&#39;t get access to them.
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Ministers say attempts to stop drug users from re-offending through treatment are proving successful.
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British officials want two girls suspected of drug smuggling in Africa moved to a more suitable prison.
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Doctors' leaders warn of the potential health risks of putting inmates in police or court cells.
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Supplies of a powerful painkiller used to treat cancer patients are near critical lows, the Department of Health says. It said a supply problem with the opiate-based drug diamorphine meant
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The amount the NHS spends on medicines will be cut by Â£1.8 billion over the next five years after drugs companies agreed to reduce their prices.