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by Change | 4 Jun 2009

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Drug addiction seminars will be held in eight cities across the UK.

A series of seminars about tobacco and drug addiction have been launched by a not-for-profit organisation called Smoke Alarm.

Plymouth and Manchester will host the first seminars in September and by the end of the year six further cities will be covered.

The talks will look into the latest evidence about the link between cannabis and tobacco addiction and how using the two substances together compound the difficulties in quitting either or both.

Smoke Alarm's seminars will also offer advice, particularly to heavy smokers.

James Langton, Smoke Alarm director, said: "Cannabis and tobacco are intimately connected although the science of nicotine addiction is well understood, much less is known about how to help cannabis smokers with the psychological and physiological aspects of their dependency".
cannabis support Groups will benefit from the profits made from the training seminars.

Topics covered will include understanding the psychological addiction to cannabis, the mental health perspective and strategies for working with young users.

According to Smoke Alarm, 44 per cent of 15 and 16-year-olds in the UK admitted to using cannabis at some point in their lives when questioned for the 2008 United Nations International Narcotics Control Board report.

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