Russian Heroin Problem
Russian heroin problem
Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's top public-health official, warned darkly last year that the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan could trigger an upsurge in heroin flowing into Russia. Yet despite this, the Russian government has done little to help …
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Long-term methadone use is form of 'State-sponsored social control'
Maintaining drug users on the heroin-replacement drug methadone is a form of State-sponsored social control that substitutes one addictive opiate drug for another, the head of one of Dublin's biggest drug-free rehabilitation projects has said. Irene …
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