Drug Plague: Afghan Poppy Harvest Infects India
Drug Plague: Afghan poppy harvest infects India – Afghan heroin plague plunges once blooming region of India into addiction hole. RT’s Priya Shridhar reports. RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
'Tik addiction destroying homes'
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CAPE TOWN – A Lavender Hill mother said on Wednesday she wants nothing to do with her eldest son who is a drug addict. Eyewitness News caught up with 51-year-old Ellen Pakkies as part of Lead SA's Drug Watch Campaign. Pakkies made headlines …
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Treating addiction as a public health issue, not a crime
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The drugs of choice for an increasing number of Americans are prescription painkillers. Nowhere is the problem more apparent than Houston, where the renowned medical center area has become “a national hotspot for prescription drug abuse,” according to …
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Rethinking our attitude to drugs
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ILLICIT drugs are widely viewed with fear and loathing. Parents, in particular, are understandably terrified their children will become addicted to headline-grabbing horrors including heroin and methamphetamine and crack cocaine. Alcohol and other …
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