The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

DRUGS & DRUG ABUSE
* Labour vetoes softening of stance on drug laws - see Politics
07/01/01
* Two young Britons, jailed for attempting to smuggle drugs out
of Venezuela, have broken their parole and fled back to England
after fearing they would be killed - see Prisons & Prisoners
07/01/01
* A powerful hallucinogenic drug that has been linked to deaths
around the world is becoming popular among Britain's heroin
and crack users 07/01/01 B 13 7>8
* Access to cut-price HIV drugs would save millions of lives, so
why do the rich pharmaceutical firms refuse them? - see
AIDS/HIV 14/01/01
* Drugs giants are suing South Africa over alleged violation of
intellectual property rights on anti-HIV drugs 14/01/01 N 1 1>2
Photograph
* A deadly new variant of ecstasy linked to dozens of deaths
across the globe has arrived in Britain 14/01/01 B 11 7
* The young men of Fraserburgh blow their wages on hard
drugs, making the Scottish port Britain's narcotics capital
28/01/01 B 10 1>6 Photographs
* A Dutch man has been arrested with attempting to smuggle
Ecstasy into the US by swallowing 3,500 pills - see International
Affairs: U.S.A. 04/02/01
* Report from St. Petersburg were prostitution and drugs are
fuelling a huge rise in HIV infections - see International Affairs:
Russia 11/02/01
* Mark Gibson and other cannabis campaigners hope to fight the
present drug laws under the Human Rights Act 11/02/01 B 7
1>2 Photographs
* One in 10 young motorists has driven after taking illegal drugs
04/03/01 B 13 1>2 Photograph
* Focus on the war on drug addiction 04/03/01 B 17 1>5
Photographs
* Doctors and nurses face random testing for drink and drugs
under radical plans being drawn up by NHS trusts - see National
Health Service 11/03/01
* Zurich may become the favourite European city for spliffinduced
fun if a new Bill legalising cannabis is passed by the
Swiss government - see Travel 18/03/01
* Motorists will be tested for drug abuse in the first nationwide
crackdown on drug-driving, beginning this week 18/03/01 B 7
1>2 Photograph
* Taking cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy and even heroin is not
dangerous, according to a controversial BBC TV programme to
be shown this week 25/03/01 B 5 1>7 Illustration
* Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban rulers have ended its
opium trade - but the world hasn't noticed - see International
Affairs: Middle East 01/04/01
* The picturesque hills and valleys of Wales have become home
to the fastest-growing drugs epidemic in the UK 01/04/01 B 8
1>8 Photograph
* The price of Ecstasy has hit a record low, with pills being sold
on the street for an average £7 01/04/01 B 8 1>2
* Drug barons from two of Britain's most crime-ridden cities -
Liverpool and Glasgow - have forged an uneasy alliance to
traffic millions of pounds worth of drugs - see Crime 08/04/01
* John Sweeney in Rangoon uncovers the links between Burma's
drug barons and a repressive regime that likes to trumpet to the
world its tough anti-drugs policy - see International Affairs:
Indian Sub 08/04/01
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* A South Carolina hospital's attempt to deal with its 'crack
babies' has gone all the way to the US Supreme Court 08/04/01
M 18>24 1>4 Photographs
* Chancellor Gordon Brown stepped up pressure on
multinational pharmaceutical companies to allow developing
countries access to drugs to treat serious diseases 15/04/01 N 1
1>3
* David Earnshaw has more reason than most to smile at the
climbdown by the world's most powerful pharmaceutical
companies - see International Affairs: Africa 22/04/01
* Parents are being pressured to put their children on Ritalin, a
psycho-active drug that can cause severe side-effects, or face
their expulsion from school - see Education 22/04/01
* The Pretoria Court Case: Why the pharmas gave way, and why
South Africa's joy may be short lived - see International Affairs:
Africa 22/04/01
* Profile on Pablo Escobar, Colombia's king of cocaine, who
started his criminal career as a car thief and ended up as the
seventh richest man in the world - see Escobar, Pablo 29/04/01
* Drug rehab is a habit some celebrities just can't kick 29/04/01
B 16 1>8 Photographs
* Shock rise in hard drug use among pupils - children of 11
experiment with heroin and cocaine 29/04/01 B 4 1>7
Photograph
* Drugs in sport - see Sport 06/05/01
* In the final extract from his book, Mark Bowden describes
how the net was closed on Pablo Escobar, who for 20 years was
the world's richest and most ruthless drug baron - see Escobar,
Pablo 06/05/01
* Police are to be given radical new powers to arrest club owners
for allowing drugs to be taken in their clubs, prompting a furious
reaction from rave entrepreneurs 13/05/01 B 7 1>5 Photographs
* 60 per cent of criminals take hard drugs 20/05/01 B 11 1>2
Photograph
* The ultimate test of three journalist friendship - one of them
going cold turkey on film 20/05/01 M 18>23 1>4 Photographs
* Celebrity devotees have helped turn food supplements into a
big business, but high does pose a risk to the 10 million Britons
taking the pills - see Health 27/05/01
* A covert operation by West Midlands police against a gang of
crack dealers put the lives of two elite undercover officers at risk
- report on a catalogue of errors - see Crime 10/06/01
* The US is blocking new European Commission proposals to
get cheap drugs into developing countries suffering devastating
HIV, malaria and TB pandemics - see International Affairs:
U.S.A. 17/06/01
* The innocent victims of war on drugs: the global battle against
narcotics is going awry 17/06/01 B 20>21 1>4 Photographs
* Three of the leading contenders for the Tory leadership broke
with the party's traditional hardline opposition to drugs by
calling for a major debate on the legalisation of cannabis - see
Politics 24/06/01
* Ecstasy's death toll is set to go on rising 01/07/01 B 9 1>5
Photographs
* Britain is to abandon the hunt for cannabis smugglers and
dealers in order to target hard drugs 08/07/01 B 1 7>8
* Focus on Drugs in Britain 08/07/01 B 14, 16>17 1>6
Photographs
* Big business and the Treasury could cash in if cannabis was
legalised in Britain 08/07/01 N 3 1>6 Photographs
* Illegal drugs make up to 6 per cent of world trade and are