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Could A Pill Cut Your Drinking By Two Thirds On A Night Out?

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Heavy Drinking, Alcoholism, Alcoholic, Prescription Drugs, Doctors, Gps, Nalmefene, Drug, Pill, Drink, Nhs, UK Lifestyle News

A "helpful" new drug which could help problem drinkers reduce the amount of alcohol they consume will today become available to UK patients. If dep...

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Police Warning Over New Drug 'Rockstar' After Hospital Admissions

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 07.03.2013 | UK
Read More: Ecstasy, UK News, UK Crime, Police, 'Rockstar' New Drug, Rockstar, Drugs, News, Drug, UK News

A mystery drug known as "Rockstar" has prompted a warning from police after ten people were admitted to hospital suffering a severe reaction to it. ...

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Thalidomide Charity Rebuffs Drug Company's Apology

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, Charity, Charity UK, Thalidomide UK Agency, Harald Stock, Birth Defect Pregnancy, Grunenthal, News, Drug, Thalidomide, Pregnant Mothers, UK News

A British charity has rebuffed the first apology for half a century from the German company which invented birth defect pregnancy drug Thalidomide. ...

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Former Users Of Baldness Drug Prone To Suicidal Thoughts, Says US Doctor

The Huffington Post UK | Sarah O'Meara | Posted 08.08.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Male Pattern Hair Loss, Health News, Depressive Symptoms, Slidewide, Baldness, Suicidal-Thoughts, Propecia, Mens Health, Drug, UK Lifestyle News

Men who developed persistent sexual side effects while on finasteride (Propecia), a drug commonly used for male pattern hair loss, have a high prevale...

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LOOK: Czech Woman Climbs Electricity Pylon Whilst High On Drugs

Huffington Post UK | Alastair Plumb | Posted 22.06.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: Cannabis, Czech, Pics & Giggles, Skunk, Drugs, UK Weird News, Slideexpand, Picture of the Day, Drug, Czech Republic, UK Comedy News

A 21-year-old woman from Zlin in the Czech Republic, high on super strength cannabis, was photographed climbing a 40ft electricity pylon, believing it...

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Nice U-turn On Life-Extending Prostate Cancer Pill

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: UK News, Prostate Cancer, Nice, Institute of Cancer Research, Health News, Slideexpand, Drug, Nhs, UK Lifestyle News

A drug to treat advanced prostate cancer should be given to patients on the NHS, a health watchdog has said. Abirateron, marketed as Zytiga, can ex...

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Could This Drug Spell The End Of Hangovers?

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.01.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Herbal Remedy, Herbal Hangover Cure, UK News, Hangover Cure, Dhm, Drug, UK Lifestyle News

Scientists have discovered an ancient herb that could spell the end of embarrassing drunken moments and debilitating hangovers as well as offering new...

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How a Small Programme for Injecting Drug Users in Canada Exposes Tensions in the United Nations

Damon Barrett | Posted 05.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Canada Drug Center Open, Insite Open, Legal Drug Injection, Insite, Canada Drug Center Ruling, Drug, Drug Injection Center, Drug Injection Center Open, Canada Drug Center, Canadian Drug Center Open, World News, UK News
Damon Barrett

Last Friday the Canadian Supreme Court issued a ruling ordering the Government to permit 'Insite', Canada's only safe injection facility, to remain op...

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"We've been fighting a drugs war for 40 years, that war is lost, and completely unwinnable"

Jason Reed | Posted 22.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Lady Amanda Fielding, Peter Reynolds, Marijuana, Clear, David Cameron, Drugs, Professor Nutt, Matthew Atha, Drug, Paul Flynn MP, Dr. Susan Blackmore, Drug Equality Alliance, Press Conference, Drug War, Independent Drug Monitoring Unit, Prime Minister, House of Commons, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Charles Walker, The Beckley Foundation, Jubilee Room, Science, James Duffy, Evidence, Leap, LEAP UK, Dr-Susan-Blackmore, Cannabis, Transform, Charles Walker MP, Release, Know Drugs, #Drugscience, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Jason Reed, Cannabis Law Reform, Westminster, Drug Policy, Paul Flynn, Idmu, UK News
Jason Reed

"We've been fighting a drugs war for 40 years, that war is lost, and completely unwinnable." These were the eminent words of Mr James Duffy from Law...

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New Cancer Drug Becomes Available In UK

PA | Posted 20.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Abiraterone Acetate, Prostate Cancer, Zytiga, Testosterone, Tumours, Trials, National Health Service, Pill, Drug, Nhs, Institue-of-Cancer-Research, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A life-prolonging prostate cancer pill has been officially launched in the UK but has yet to be made widely available to NHS pati...

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New Hope For Breast Cancer And Skin Cancer Sufferers

The Huffington Post UK | Georgia James | Posted 22.10.2011 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Cancer Treatment, Ukhealth-News, Thiostrepton, Skin Cancer, Ipilimumab, Ukwomen, Breast Cancer, Breakthrough, Cancer, Drug, UK Lifestyle News

This week sees double hope for cancer sufferers as breakthroughs are reported in the treatment of both breast cancer and skin cancer. Fresh hope fo...

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