A survey of police and other law enforcement agents has said that the battle against drugs is not winnable in the near future, and nine out of ten questioned said it was "unlikely" that UK drug markets would be eradicated in the near future.

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Police have warned that an increasing number of people in Scotland are taking "legal highs" bought online despite limited information about their potentially lethal side-effects.

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A poll carried out by the Co-operative Insurance has revealed 55 per cent of youngsters are still getting behind the wheel while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

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A new pioneering project which brings together courts, the voluntary sector and government has been launched in London which aims to aid children affected by substance misuse.

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The cost of prescribing the heroin substitute, methadone, has risen from £9,049,792 in 2003-4 to £16,637,636 in 2008-09 according to official Scottish Government statistics.

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News article by Mark Easton on how changes in drug policy which came into force in 2001 have affected drug users and communites in Portugal.

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New figures have revealed that seizures of Class A drugs in the north-east have risen by 49 per cent on last year with Grampian police winning praise for 'delivering results'.

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Comment from the media on release of the National Drug Treatment Waiting Times Report (Jan-Mar 2009), released yesterday by ISD Scotland.

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Article on cannabis and its potency by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (part of the World Drug 2009 Report Series).

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