Youth addiction grows parallel with drug production in Afghanistan
Youth addiction grows parallel with drug production in Afghanistan
Filed under: drug addiction treatments
During a ribbon cutting ceremony held a while ago at Jangalak area of Kabul for a 300 beds refurbished drug addicted treatment Center . Kareem Khalili the voice president of the country called youths' addication a silent tsunami. Numbers of drugs …
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Treatment needed to keep Rx abuse from leading to heroin
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The pull of opiates — both legal and illegal — is so strong that Orman Hall, director of the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, predicts that, within a couple of years, there will be more Ohioans in addiction treatment for heroin …
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Reports show opiate abuse remains problem for Massachusetts
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According to a 2011 report by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the greater Boston metro area had the highest rate of emergency room visits involving illicit drugs (571 per 100,000 population) among the nation's 11 …
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Synthetic drug ban may trigger withdrawal crisis
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Hunter New England Health's drug and alcohol services staff specialist Bob Batey said treatment facilities in Newcastle and the Central Coast were seeing more people addicted to synthetics per capita compared to Sydney. Dr Batey said an increase in …
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