BNN Pushing for Fairer Treatment of Drug Addicts
The country's anti-narcotics chief says his office is committed to the government's drive to prioritize rehabilitation over prosecution for drug addicts, but blames the prevailing law enforcement mind-set for not being flexible enough to distinguish …
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How to Find the Right Drug & Alcohol Treatment Center
For those addicted to drugs or alcohol, selecting the right treatment center for their alcoholism and drug abuse may be one of the most important decisions they will make in their lifetime. In an ongoing effort to educate individuals suffering from …
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Panel answers your questions about heroin in Bucks, Montco
To learn where and how, we interviewed more than a dozen teenagers and drove to popular drug destinations in Philadelphia. We spoke with former addicts, parents, school officials, drug counselors, coroners and law enforcement officials who …
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Marion frustrated by spike in drug abuse
He'd heard about people getting beaten up in public places because of disputes over drugs. And he worried that the Marion of his childhood, where his parents had felt safe letting him play outside all day, was becoming a haven for drug dealers and addicts.
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Rosenblum: Skyrocketing opiate abuse among Indians needs attention
… 11 Minnesota Indian reservations. On June 7, Wright brought together more than 30 chemical addition counselors and public health officials for a lunch-hour discussion on how to “optimize care for opiate-addicted clients,” and figure out how to care …
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Families in Support of Treatment Rally with Anti-Drug Forum in Wantagh Tonight
(Long Island, NY) Long Island families impacted by addiction and concerned about their communities will join addiction treatment providers, community educators, law enforcement officials and dozens of community organizations to speak out at an anti …
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Help for local families dealing with drug addiction
Nearly a decade after it started in Randolph as a support group for families struggling with a relative's drug addiction, Learn to Cope is opening its first new suburban chapter on the South Shore. The new chapter, the 10th started by the organization …
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Drogadicto – Drug Addict

Image by Bill Anderson 🙂
A cab driver took us on a tour of one of Cali’s roughest districts where I was fortunate enough to have this fellow stop and let me photograph him. This area looks like a war zone complete with police bunkers and large pot holes everywhere!

A lot of drug addicts use basuco which is the deadliest illegal drug ever invented, it can destroy the life of a youngster in less than two years. Basuco is the bagasse or residue left after extracting cocaine base.

Basuco contains sodium hydroxide, a strong caustic which destroys skin and mucous tissues; it also contains petroleum residues such as red gasoline blends with xylene and toluene, that destroy liver ; white cement, insecticides with high levels of arsenic affecting gastric and respiratory mucosal; solvents such as acetone and others, sulfuric acid, which destroys any organic tissue, benzoic acid, amphetamine, lidocaine, caustic soda, herbicides, crushed brick, lead, potassium permanganate, chloride and others. Basuco is the dirtiest psychoactive substance that runs in Colombia and the chemicals used for its manufacture are of very poor quality.

City sees number of registered drug addicts jump 10% in 2012
The number of registered drug addicts in Shanghai increased by 10 percent in 2012 to 67,000, with 42.7 percent of them below the age of 35, local media reported Monday. The number of young drug addicts fell by 2.5 percent from 2011, even though the …
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Staten Island prescription drug addicts resort to painkiller 'road trips'
Law enforcement sources here say that as the borough's prescription drug abuse epidemic gets more and more public attention addicts and criminals are discovering it increasingly difficult to get doctors here to write new prescriptions for oxycodone, or …
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Detox Afghan – style : Drug addicts chained up at shrine for 40 DAYS in bid to …
The men pictured imprisoned in squalid conditions are there in a bid to cure mental illness, drug addiction, or are there because they are suspected of being possessed by evil spirits. Mohammad Ali 36, a drug addict, is chained to a wall during his 40 …
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Drug addicts on prowl
A housewife of Nagamma Vari Street said, “We are in fear as drunkards and drug addicts threaten us for objecting to their activities”. The unnamed road is not recognised since many years and after several complaints, officials installed a streetlight …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman treated for drug abuse
Just yesterday, we reported that Rick Schroder felt sorry for Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan because of all their substance abuse problems and the fact that it looked like no one around them seemed to care or want to help. It looks like Lohan's parents …
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Prescription drug abuse: Investigating 'pill doctors'
The drug landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years and law enforcement agencies now find themselves battling the legal system. Prescription drug abuse — the intentional use of medication without a prescription or taken in a way other than as …
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Addicts in West Virginia not getting the help they need
Crum and other law enforcement officials worked to close a number of pain clinics in southern West Virginia, but former Wood County Sheriff Jeff Sandy says some doctors are still doling out painkillers to addicts who crush the pills to get high …
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New Law Gives Parents Behind Bars in Washington State a Way to Hold Onto …
Alise Hegle gave birth to her daughter while facing a seven-year sentence for her meth addiction. Her daughter was born two months early and tested positive for a small amount of meth … In 2010 New York passed its ASFA Expanded Discretion Act …
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