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Drug Addiction: Now, de-addiction lessons in schools – IBNLive.com

Now, de-addiction lessons in schools IBNLive.com At present, there are about 1000 health clubs in high schools where doctors and experts come and address the students in order to create awareness about drug addiction. Sachidanand Hegde, President, Karnataka State Temperance Board said, … and more »

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Drug Addiction: High rates of injection drug use in urban Aboriginal youth signal need for prevention programs
A new study indicates high rates of injection drug use in urban Canadian Aboriginal youth, particularly in women, and points to the need for culturally specific prevention programs, states an article in Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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Drug Addiction: High Rates Of Injection Drug Use In Urban Aboriginal Youth Signal Need For Prevention Programs
A new study indicates high rates of injection drug use in urban Canadian Aboriginal youth, particularly in women, and points to the need for culturally specific prevention programs, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Aboriginal leadership is alarmed at the levels of substance abuse in their young people, especially injection drug use, which is associated with HIV …
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Drug Addiction: Russia defies growing consensus with declaration of ‘total war on drugs’
Under new laws being drawn up addicts would be forced into treatment or jailed, and dealers ‘treated like serial killers’ Drug dealers are to be “treated like serial killers” and could be sent to forced labour camps under harsh laws being drawn up by Russia’s Kremlin-controlled parliament. Boris Gryzlov, the speaker of the state duma, the lower house, said a “total war on drugs” was needed to …
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