NATO in Afghanistan – Treating Kabul’s Drug Addicts

Published January 21, 2013

NATO in Afghanistan – Treating Kabul’s drug addicts – On average 1 person in 30 is addicted to drugs in Kabul, Afghanistan. A special center is helping to wean them away from using drugs. More on WADAN: www.wadan.org

Klegman sentenced

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Klegman, 20, was living at 83 Cedarwood Lane in the Green Meadows Mobile Home Park on state Route 29 when she led confidential informants on the payroll of the Madison County Drug Task Force to friends and neighbors selling drugs that were …
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Marti MacGibbon, of Muncie, shares story of surviving human trafficking …

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(Photo courtesy: Facebook) Copyright 2013 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. … When she returned to face them, she said she didn't want to burden them with what happened to her, so rather than changing her previous habits, she continued to …
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High hopes: Why science is seeking a pardon for psychedelics

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Today, of course, thanks to the proselytizing of Timothy Leary and its degradation into hippie culture's “acid,” a cheap street drug, it and many other hallucinogens are illegal and believed to have, like heroin and cocaine, a high potential for abuse …
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Colorado ERs take steps to stop pain pill abuse

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ER doctors treating flare-ups in chronic-pain patients should first contact that patient's primary doctor. Prescriptions for acute pain, such as a broken bone, should not exceed 30 pills. Emergency patients should be screened for substance- abuse …
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