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International
News:
Australian
Prime
Minister
Cancels
Heroin
Maintenance
Trial,
Dutch
Prepare
to
Go
Ahead
With
Their
Own
Version
8/22/97
AUSTRALIA CANCELS HEROIN TRIAL
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, feeling pressure from right-wing
radio talk show hosts and a blistering campaign by Rupert Murdoch-owned
tabloids, including The Sydney Daily Telegraph, decided on Tuesday that
Australia would not go ahead with a 40-patient heroin maintenance trial.
The trial, modeled on the recently completed, hugely successful Swiss trial,
had previously been approved by the Ministerial Council on Drug policy.
A full report on the Australian heroin trial roller-coaster will soon be
available on DRCNet's web site.
For a summary of the Swiss heroin trial, visit http://www.lindesmith.org/presumm.html.
DUTCH HEROIN EXPERIMENT MAY INCLUDE HUNDREDS
Dutch Health Minister Els Borst-Eilers said that she hopes to include
750 heroin addicts in her country's version of the Swiss heroin maintenance
trial, adding, "If the number of test subjects is too limited, we
may not be able to detect the beneficial effects of the test." An
advisory commission had previously recommended a using a sample of between
600 and 900 addicts for the trials. Visit http://www.lindesmith.org/prescho.html
for information on the Dutch proposal.
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Issue #8, 8/22/97
Medical Marijuana: California, New Mexico, Netherlands MS Study | Needle Exchange: George Soros gives $1 Million for NEPs, Family Research Council Distorts Facts | Drugs and the Military: No indictments for marines who shot Texas schoolboy Esequiel Hernandez... ALSO: Cartels hiring ex-US GI's | International News: Australian Prime Minister Cancels Heroin Maintenance Trial, Dutch Prepare to Go Ahead With Their Own Version | Drug Education: Mario Cuomo and William Bennett to co-chair the Partnership for a Drug Free America, Another Study Finds D.A.R.E. Doesn't Work | Media Alert: New York Times Interviews George Soros | Link of the Week: A special friend of DRCNet, the November Coalition champions the cause of current -- and future -- prisoners of the Drug War | Quote of the Week: Undercover cops corruptible? The FBI knows | Editorial: "A Drug Free America"
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