Zambia's battle against drug addiction
The costs of buying drugs is relatively cheap, with sachets of heroin fetching little more than $ 20 (£12). Hospitals are seeing more patients for drug abuse. The country's drug enforcement commission says in the last two years more than 500 addicts …
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Oregon finds efforts to treat drug addicts paying off
That philosophy fuels Oregon's nationally reputed system of addiction care that officials, health experts and treatment professionals say provides lessons for Kentucky as it struggles with a crippling prescription drug-abuse problem and an overwhelmed …
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Part 4: The prescription drug abuse problem
Reach Up participants have a self-reported low incidence of substance abuse, but they often have to cope with addiction and substance abuse in their family circle. Parents, siblings, spouses and partners are frequently drug dependent and sometimes …
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