Pricking Truth Lost in Abyss of Abuse
Pricking truth lost in abyss of abuse
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
While Rahul, in his speech at Panjab University in Chandigarh, blamed the SAD-BJP government of Punjab for the drug addiction problem, the state government has not only passed the buck back to the Centre but also interpreted Rahul's concerned comment …
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Punjab's struggle with drugs
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
The irony is: the writer of report, Amritsar-based sociologist Ranwinder Singh Sandhu, insists that his 2006 study has been misinterpreted: “I didn't study the general population, but a scientific sample of 600 drug addicts from four districts …
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SHERROD BROWN Helping Ohio communities stop prescription drug abuse
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
As the national death toll from prescription drug overdoses doubled, the rate of overdoses tripled in Ohio. Ohio's death rate due to unintentional drug poisoning increased more than 350 percent from 1999 to 2008. Oxycodone and other opioids caused more …
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East Bridgewater to hold first drug awareness vigil as problem grows in town
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
Eight people have overdosed on drugs in East Bridgewater so far this year – four times more overdoses than the two reported in 2008, police said. And five people have died in East Bridgewater after overdosing on drugs in the past five years. On …
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