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Job Posting: Community Action Initiative seeking Provincial Director

Safe Games 2010: CARBC is joining with over 30 other local organizations in a health promotion and advocacy initiative to support enhanced awareness and harm reduction activities among those attending the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Scholarships for Interdisciplinary Health and Addictions Research Graduate Program: three 1-year entry scholarships available

A Message on Alcohol and Health: OpEd by Tim Stockwell and Gerald Thomas

New Multilingual Webpages on HereToHelp: A new section of the HereToHelp website provides mental health and substance use information in many different languages.

HST and Booze: UVic report calls on BC to use HST as an opportunity to reduce spiralling alcohol-related deaths: Media Release and Backgrounder

Alcohol Pricing, Public Health and the HST: Proposed Incentives for BC Drinkers to Make Healthy Choices: Policy Brief

More Drinking, More Drugs, More Harm: Media Release and Backgrounder

Current Media Stories

MAP - Drugnews - Canada

CN AB: Column: Sharper Approach To Drug Action Needed

The Calgary Sun, 07 Feb 2010 - Imagine kicking our politicians out of office for a while and replacing their cowardice and ideological stubbornness with the evidence-based, straight thinking of experts. Pot would have been legalized long ago.

	CN AB: Police Issue Warning Over Tainted Cocaine
	The Calgary Sun, 07 Feb 2010 - Calgary cops say recent cases of people hospitalized after using cocaine tainted with a dangerous veterinary drug is another reminder illicit substances come with no quality-control. Winnipeg health officials blame cocaine tainted with levamisole, a chemical compound developed to treat intestinal worms, for sending the two individuals to hospital with a potentially fatal illness over the past two weeks.
	CN BC: Alleged Drug Chopper Grounded
	Nelson Star, 04 Feb 2010 - Nelson RCMP helped seize a helicopter used for drug trafficking across the Canada-US boarder. The black Bell 206B Jet Ranger is same style as the one flown by Nelson man Sam Brown when he was caught in an anti-trafficking operation that led to his arrest and subsequent suicide.
	CN ON: PUB LTE: Pot Prohibition Prohibiting
	Barrie Examiner, 04 Feb 2010 - The RCMP wants to dazzle the gullible among the public by giving as inflated values for a weed as impossible to eradicate as dandelions. Prohibition is the only reason for the obscene profits cannabis growers and dealers make. The 90-95% who never get busted are subsidized by this disastrous policy.
	CN AB: Prevention Program Making Its Mark
	Lethbridge Herald, 03 Feb 2010 - After nearly a year in operation, an addictions prevention program at Allan Watson High School has seen a drop in the numbers of students using marijuana, hallucinogens, ecstasy and cocaine. However, tobacco use has remained the same and those reporting alcohol use has increased by five per cent.

	CN AB: Column: Evidence Should Triumph Over Ideology On Needle Exchange
	The Daily Herald-Tribune, 03 Feb 2010 - Imagine kicking our politicians out of office for a while and replacing their cowardice and ideological stubbornness with the evidence-based, straight thinking of experts. Pot would have been legalized long ago. Perhaps a regime would have been set up for the legal regulation and sale of all drugs based on their potential harm.
	CN ON: City Grandmother Faces Drug Trial In New York
	Hamilton Spectator, 04 Feb 2010 - Believed Drug Charge From 30 Years Ago Was Done With A 74-year-old Hamilton grandmother and health-care support worker had spoken openly with her family about a drug charge she received in New York City nearly 30 years ago -- a charge she believed was settled and in her past, said the woman's daughter.
	CN BC: Mounties Target Gabriola's Marijuana Trade
	Nanaimo Daily News, 05 Feb 2010 - Police Busted Four Grow-ops Last Month, Including Three In A Single Day, As They Clamp Down On Pot Production Mounties are cracking down on marijuana grow-ops on Gabriola Island. Police say they busted four operations on the island last month, with three grow-ops taken down in a single day.
	CN BC: Legal Pot Growers Pick Own Medicine
	Maple Ridge News, 05 Feb 2010 - Somewhere in a quiet corner of Maple Ridge or Pitt Meadows, a cannabis crop is being harvested right now, legally. The half-dozen or so known local growers are a select bunch of 4,869 people in Canada authorized to possess the narcotic plant under Marihuana Medical Access Regulations.