Posts Tagged ‘legal highs’
The Friends You Keep: Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs – Forbes
The Friends You Keep: Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs – Forbes
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The Friends You Keep: Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs
Forbes As I look back through my writing — particularly on highly-caffeinated drinks and synthetic marijuana or other previously-legal highs — I'm reminded of the need to put societal drug use risks in proper perspective. For example, we've discussed the … |
Kenya’s Christians and Muslims unite to combat addiction – Washington Post (blog)
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Kenya's Christians and Muslims unite to combat addiction
Washington Post (blog) NAIROBI, Kenya — Â Fractious religious groups in this East African nation are uniting to tackle alcohol and drug abuse, amid concerns the substances could wipe out a cross section of the younger generation. From Sunday schools to Islamic madrassas … |
Report: ‘Designer Drug’ Use, Abuse and Production Surging – Raw Story
Report: ‘Designer drug’ use, abuse and production surging – Raw Story
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Report: 'Designer drug' use, abuse and production surging
Raw Story “In recent years, there has been an unprecedented surge in the abuse of new psychoactive substances,” often called “legal highs” or “designer drugs,” the Vienna-based International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said in its annual report. “In Europe … UN report: Internet helps feed designer drug abuse UN anti-narcotics panel warns of widespread increase in use of 'legal highs' Is the INCB Dangerous to Your Health? 5 Ways the UN's Drug Watchdog Fails … |
Lunch and Learn to focus on drug abuse awareness – SnoValley Star
Report: ‘Designer Drug’ Use, Abuse and Production Surging – Raw Story
Report: ‘Designer drug’ use, abuse and production surging – Raw Story
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Report: 'Designer drug' use, abuse and production surging
Raw Story “In recent years, there has been an unprecedented surge in the abuse of new psychoactive substances,” often called “legal highs” or “designer drugs,” the Vienna-based International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said in its annual report. “In Europe … UN report: Internet helps feed designer drug abuse UN anti-narcotics panel warns of widespread increase in use of 'legal highs' Is the INCB Dangerous to Your Health? 5 Ways the UN's Drug Watchdog Fails … |
Lake Forest group hosts ‘hard-hitting’ drug abuse film screening – Lake Forester
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Lake Forest group hosts 'hard-hitting' drug abuse film screening
Lake Forester NORTH CHICAGO — The first Midwest airing of “Behind the Orange Curtain,” a documentary on prescription drug abuse, left the audience at Rosalind Franklin University in shocked silence this winter. In less than an hour, they watched families in Orange … |
Area Police Celebrate Drug Collection Success, Prepare for Fall Event – Patch.com
Prescription Drug Abuse: Area Police Celebrate Drug Collection Success, Prepare for Fall Event – Patch.com
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Area Police Celebrate Drug Collection Success, Prepare for Fall Event
Patch.com The program is a collaborative effort between the US Drug Enforcement Administration and state and local law enforcement agencies to rid the country of unwanted prescription drugs and prevent abuse. For many local departments, this was the second … |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
Prescription Drug Abuse: The lowest use of ‘legal highs’ – Times of Malta
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The lowest use of 'legal highs'
Times of Malta Indeed, as has been held in the World Drug Report 2011, “while global markets for cocaine, heroin and cannabis declined or remained stable, the production and abuse of prescription opioid drugs and new synthetic drugs rose”. … |
More Than Ban Needed – Stuff
Causes of Drug Abuse: More than ban needed – Stuff
A Government decision to temporarily ban the supply of dozens of legal highs is “sweet”, but the real answer lies in treating the cause of substance abuse, Drug Arm Blenheim chairman Roy Ramsey says. Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne announced a …
Causes of Drug Abuse – Bing News
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Heroin Habits – the Express Tribune
Drug Addiction: Heroin habits – The Express Tribune
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Heroin habits
The Express Tribune A UNODC study last year found growing drug use among women, a group that had previously been seen as free from problems of addiction. Another study, based in Larkana, had also found a growing population of injectable drug users — raising the risks of … UN: Afghanistan, Burma Main Producers of Opium Death Toll from Illicit Narcotics Use Amounts to Global Tragedy, Secretary … Growth of 'legal highs' poses new risks to drug users |
Drug Addiction – Google News
Drug Addiction: Scale of Maldives drug use and addiction uncertain: UNICEF – Minivan News
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Scale of Maldives drug use and addiction uncertain: UNICEF
Minivan News Although official figures are not presently available regarding drug use and levels of addiction in the Maldives, Bukhari claimed that the first ever scientifically rigorous drug–use study to be conducted in the Maldives was currently underway. … |