Justice minister David Hanson said misuse of the drug had grown in the last 10 years and it presented a new challenge for prisons.
Mid and West Wales AM Rebecca Evans raised the issue of drug misuse in rural areas, and Mr Sargeant emphasised the importance of supporting access to relevant services.
Alistair Woodrow Ramsay director, Scotland Against Drugs (Newlands, Glasgow) - For services to the Prevention of Drug Misuse.
Writing in The Lancet Infectious Diseases medical journal, Prof Laura Piddock of the school of immunity and infection at the University of Birmingham warned there were global implications from the misuse of antibiotics, and drug companies' failures to develop new ones.
The report is the first to try to provide estimates of the prevalence of problematic drug misuse and covers the year 2000.
Blackwater has had to fire 122 guards - one-seventh of the personnel it has in Iraq - over the past three years for problems ranging from misuse of weapons, alcohol and drug violations, inappropriate conduct, and violent behavior, the committee report said.
But Neil McKeganey, director of Glasgow University's drug-misuse research centre, says that despite all the money and effort put into drug treatment schemes, there has been little serious evaluation of them.
In a recent report, the cross-party Commons committee urged ministers to develop a new series of measures to tackle the harm caused by drug misuse and suggested an independent Royal Commission should take a fresh look at policy and the changing international context by 2015.
The misuse of painkillers represents three-fourths of the overall problem of prescription drug abuse.
Parc Prison's statistics matched the Prison Service's targets, with assault rates and drug misuse levels within levels sought and an above average number of hours spent on purposeful activities.
Experts at the National Antisocial Behaviour Clinic based at London's Maudsley Hospital draw a direct line between poor parenting and a range of social problems including educational under-achievement, criminality and drug misuse.
The deal includes provisions that are more specific than the sort of restrictions that the Feds often impose on drug makers, such as agreeing not to misuse continuing medical education programs for marketing or awarding grants to doctors based on their prescribing habits.
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