Prison 'losing battle with drugs'
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Staff at one of Scotland's toughest jails admit they are losing the battle against drug smugglers.
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The grass may be greener on the inside for inmates at Japan&#39;s Abashiri Prison, where marijuana shoots have been sprouting in the exercise yard.
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The army is losing the equivalent of nearly a battalion to illegal drug use every year, research released Friday said.
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The number of cannabis farms being uncovered by police has trebled in two years, says DrugScope.
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The Chief Inspector of Probation says demands on staff mean many offenders are not being monitored properly.
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Lessons on drugs have not worked and more must be done about smoking and alcohol,  advisers say.
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells.
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Britain's drug policy has failed and should be replaced with a system that recognizes drinking and smoking can cause more harm than some illegal drugs, according to an independent study
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The British Army, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, is losing the equivalent resources of more than one battalion (500-600 soldiers) a year as a result of illegal drug use, researchers said on Friday.
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Prisoners who endure poor or degrading treatment suffer much of the same long-term psychological distress as do captives who are tortured, suggests a study published Monday.
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Nearly 80 percent of young people who are arrested use illegal drugs or alcohol, but fewer than 4 percent receive substance abuse treatment, says a new study.
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Records show the agency has taken a less aggressive approach toward policing drugs in the past four years.
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SALVO, North Carolina  - Marion Jones's prison sentence for lying about steroid use proves how effective cooperation between government and anti-doping agencies can be in the fight against drugs in sport, officials and coaches say.
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SACRAMENTO A study of drug offenders arrested after a proposition was passed that sent offenders to treatment instead of jail found that nearly half of the offenders were arrested again.
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MOSCOW, Mar 7 (IPS) - Russia is losing one in ten people in its active   population to drugs, a leading medical researcher told IPS.
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A UCLA study concluded that California&#39;s Proposition 36, which diverts non-violent drug offenders to treatment programs instead of jail, has done less to curb re-arrest rates than drug courts or probationary programs, the Los Angeles Daily News reported
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The British Army, fighting in Iraq and  Afghanistan, is losing the equivalent resources of more than  one battalion (500-600 soldiers) a year as a result of illegal  drug use, researchers said on Friday.