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Man CUTS OFF Wife’s Nose and Lips After She Refused to Give Him Money – Malaysia Chronicle
Man CUTS OFF wife’s nose and lips after she refused to give him money – Malaysia Chronicle
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Man CUTS OFF wife's nose and lips after she refused to give him money
Malaysia Chronicle An Afghan woman has had her nose and lips allegedly cut off by her husband after refusing to sell her jewellery to fund his heroin addiction. The mother-of-four – known only as Setara – was reportedly beaten and mutilated by her partner at their home … |
Heroin Withdrawal – Google News
Iranian Police Seize Large Cargo of Opium after Armed Clashes – Tasnim News Agency
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Iranian Police Seize Large Cargo of Opium after Armed Clashes
Tasnim News Agency In recent decades Iran has been hit by drug trafficking, mainly because of its 936- kilometers of shared borders with Afghanistan, which supplies over 90% of the world's opium; the raw ingredient of heroin. The United Nations has estimated in the past … |
Man Arrested for Assaulting Grandmother, Relatives Blame Drug Withdrawal – WOWK
Man arrested for assaulting grandmother, relatives blame drug withdrawal – WOWK
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Man arrested for assaulting grandmother, relatives blame drug withdrawal
WOWK Brett Horton says he has tried to help Josh conquer his demons and get off heroin and methamphetamine. The elder Horton was at his West Portsmouth home that he shares with his son and mother-in-law when law enforcement responded to the call that … |
Heroin Withdrawal – Google News
Drug trial treats Austin opioid addicts – KXAN.com
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Drug trial treats Austin opioid addicts
KXAN.com “Prescription painkiller abuse poses a major challenge to our health care system, with 85 percent of opioid addicts using them, not heroin,” he said. “We need to build … It treats acute withdrawal from short-acting opioids. While lofexidine has been … |
Heroin Withdrawal – Google News
Big Narcotic Drugs Band Dismantled in Southeastern Iran – Tasnim News Agency
Afghanistan Is Growing More Opium Than Ever Ahead of US Withdrawal
Afghanistan is growing more opium than ever ahead of US withdrawal
The UN's drug agency today announced that opium cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record high in 2013, raising concerns over the country's security and stability ahead of next year's withdrawal of American troops. According … UNODC's executive …
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Opium Production in Afghanistan Hits Record High
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose to a new high of more than 200,000 hectares in 2013, a 36% increase over last year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said Wednesday. The report, part of the agency's annual survey, indicates a …
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Afghan opium crop soared this year, UN says
The U.N. report says Afghan narcotics police have tripled their effectiveness in recent years, confiscating "well over 10%" of the country's opium production. But it says the numbers of arrests, prosecutions and convictions of powerful figures in the …
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VIEW : Drug Menace and Pakistan — MA Qamar
VIEW : Drug menace and Pakistan — MA Qamar
The magnitude of the problem can well be imagined by having a look at the facts and figures that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) compiles and makes public every year. According to the UNODC World Drug Report-2011, the estimated …
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Statistics on the Prevalence of Drug Users Can Be Misleading
These are the data that are typically being cited when people say things like “Drug use is down/up by 10%”. But the prevalence of people who have used a drug in the past 30 days or year is a crude statistic that papers over extraordinarily diversity in …
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At Clinics, Tumultuous Lives and Turbulent Care
At Clinics, Tumultuous Lives and Turbulent Care
The divided world of buprenorphine clinics serves as a crossroads where addicts' tumultuous lives converge with a turbulent treatment environment.
Heroin Withdrawal – Yahoo News Search Results
With Rise Of Painkiller Abuse, A Closer Look At Heroin
The rate of heroin use is up, and federal data shows that nearly 80 percent of people using the illegal drug had previously abused prescription painkillers. One doctor says addiction to painkillers must be treated — and prescriptions regulated — in part to stymie the draw to heroin.
Heroin Withdrawal – Yahoo News Search Results
Afghan opium cultivation hits record high in 2013
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record high in 2013 as farmers seek to "insure" themselves ahead of NATO forces' withdrawal next year, the United Nations said Wednesday. The area under cultivation rose by 36 percent in 2013, the UN drugs agency UNODC said in its annual report on Afghanistan, while production of opium, the main ingredient in heroin, jumped almost 50 percent …
Heroin Withdrawal – Yahoo News Search Results
Demos Do You Think This Should Be Stopped or Will Obama Say Lets the Black Tar Flow?
Question by Ray: demos do you think this should be stopped or will obama say lets the black tar flow?
MOSCOW — Afghan opium kills more people every year than any other drug on the planet, claiming up to 100,000 lives annually, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday.
Although U.S. officials have pointed to the last two years of lower production in Afghanistan , the country still produces 90 percent of the world’s opium, which the report says now threatens to sow havoc in much of Central Asia .
“The catalog of casualties caused by Afghan narcotics is gruesome,” Antonio Maria Costa , the executive director of the U.N. office on drugs and crime, says in a note in the report’s summary. “We need to go back to the dramatic opium addiction in China a century ago to find comparable statistics.”