Invisible Harms
Invisible harms
Mental disorders and drug and alcohol abuse account for 7.4% of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), a metric that combines years of life lost to ill-health and early death. Together they result in more DALYs than diabetes, HIV or tuberculosis, and …
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Puffin' Justin: hero or immature politico?
The U.S. National Institute for Drug Abuse states, “Estimates from research suggest that about 9 per cent of users become addicted to marijuana; this number increases among those who start young (to about 17 per cent) and among daily users (25-50 per …
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Let's take second look at U.S. drug policy
A person taking narcotic painkillers as prescribed by his physician is not a drug addict, even if he takes it for the rest of his life. I will be taking blood-pressure … The addict would not need to resort to dishonesty to pay for drugs. That would …
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