Drug Addiction in the News

Drug Addiction: Musician-Poet Gil Scott-Heron Died at 62, World Mourns
Scott-Heron, who has been struggling with drug addiction for a long time, made a name in the ’70s with his militant song ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’.
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Drug Addiction: Russia Defies Growing Consensus With Declaration Of ‘Total War On Drugs’
Drug dealers are to be “treated like serial killers” and could be sent to forced labor camps under harsh laws being drawn up by Russia’s Kremlin-controlled parliament.
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Drug Addiction: Drug take-back was two-ton success
The National Prescription Drug Take Back Initiative doesn’t have the same high profile that a major drug bust would carry, but both keep drugs off the street and take away the temptation to break laws to get at them.
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Drug Addiction: Kenya battles rising drug addiction

Kenya is battling a rising epidemic of drug abuse that has brought an increase in the number of people who are HIV positive. A flood of cheap drugs has swamped the country’s coastal areas with scores of addicts sharing needles. But as Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi reports, there are deep divisions about how to tackle the problem.

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