A man has been arrested after cannabis plants with a street value of £1m were seized from a house in the west end of Glasgow.

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Additional social workers are to be recruited at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital as services struggle to cope with significant rises in the numbers of pregnant women with substance misuse problems.

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Scientists at Strathclyde University have developed a new technique to help detectives pinpoint the origin of individual caches of drugs and identify criminal supply lines.

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Current debate on the treatment of drug misuse.

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The World Drug Report 2008, the UNODC flagship publication, has been launched in New York by Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa.

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A major review released by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drugs Addiction reports that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol or drugs and that most users cease smoking cannabis by their late 20's or early 30's with the vast majority not experiencing any negative effects.

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Article written by David McCartney from the Lothians and Edinburgh Abstinence Programme(LEAP) based in Edinburgh.

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In the past five years international drug gangs have abandoned cannabis smuggling and have moved to growing the drug in Britain. This article looks at the increasing problem of cannabis cultivation within the UK.

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An article for written for The Herald by Bruce Thomson who is Assistant Regional Director of Glasgow Dependency Services, at Aberlour Child Care Trust.

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Media comment on the release of National Drug Treatment Waiting Times statistics from ISD Scotland

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Heroin and crack cocaine with a street value of about £150,000, the biggest Class A haul in Grampian this year, have been seized by police following an intelligence-led operation in the Dyce area of Aberdeen on Sunday afternoon.

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Three men were arrested after two separate police operations in the west of Scotland resulted in the seizure of drugs worth more than £600,000.

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Claims that a large increase in the strength of cannabis over the last decade is driving the occurrence of mental health and other problems for users are not borne out by a study of the worldwide literature, say researchers at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) and the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) both based in Australia.

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LEAP (Lothians & Edinburgh Abstinence Programme) has celebrated the graduation of its twenty fifth patient from the innovative community based rehabilitation project.

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Pupils from Howden St Andrews RC Primary School in the Lothians are set to decorate a police station with a mural to promote drug awareness. The pupils won the contest to design a poster for the Choices for Life campaign.

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A study by the World Health Organisation has said that children growing up in the UK are more likely to drink, smoke and to have tried cannabis than in many other western countries.

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Researchers from the University of Aberdeen have said that smoking cannabis whilst pregnant could harm the developing foetal brain.

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Police have said that Chinese criminal gangs are believed to be behind an £8.4m cannabis haul in Northern Ireland.

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