Weedless Wednesday helps smokers butt out

Weedless Wednesday helps smokers butt out

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In Alberta, smoking rates remain highest among 20-24-year-olds, at 24%. Smoking is responsible for more deaths each year than any other drug or alcohol abuse, or than motor vehicle accidents, AIDS, murder, and suicide all combined. Smoking is also …
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Public Health England launches awareness campaign for gay men due to

Filed under: drug abuse helpline

For many, using drugs, such as mephedrone, methamphetamine (crystal meth), ketamine and GBL, before or during sex led to lowered inhibitions and riskier sex. Worryingly, 1 in 3 men using these drugs had injected them (known as 'slamming'). Most of the …
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The net is taking over

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Having realised that the platform is also being used as a medium to vent and express personal trauma, Facebook has, for about a year, been sending reports on profiles of people with suicide risk to Mumbai-based suicide helpline Aasra. … Stillwell …
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