Actually about the psychology of drug addiction….   seems a bit unhealthy to me!!

An anti-smoking campaign that you might find interesting….. 

Clive James commentary on the ‘war on drugs’ - summarises the history of legislation, and outlines the problem of how to handle the drugs issue - if you don’t want to read it, try here to get an 11 min podcast.

Which is worse - alcohol or ecstasy? 

Hear Professor Nutt - look for 5th Feb 2008

So why did he get sacked as a Government advisor?

How alcohol affects the brain….

For your practical you will have to conduct a content analysis of at least 2 articles - to get you in the mood, have a browse of these….

generational trends - statistically based

A personal account of cocaine addiction

A commentary on the effectiveness of treatment - from here you can link to the annual report just published by the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System - you don’t have to read it all - but have a look at the summary - you could compare this with how it has been reported in the press - look for other articles from different media - eg different newspapers.