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A new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistic indicates that more people lose their lives every year as a result of prescription painkiller overdoses than they do on account of heroin and cocaine use combined. Over the past 10 years alone, the number of deaths resulting from overconsumption of p... |
2 November 2011
12:51 GMT |
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Researchers investigating the behavior of people who abuse prescription drugs such as painkillers learned in a new study that these individuals are at a higher risk of becoming addicted to injectable heroin than peers.The correlation holds especially true for people who have a history with both types of abuse. Taking... |
25 July 2011
08:27 GMT |
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A group of scientists in the United States announces the development of a vaccine against heroin high. The chemical injection should also benefit those who want to quit drugs, but find it very difficult to do all by themselves. Experts at the Scripps Research Institute (SRI) explain that the therapeutic potential of ... |
20 July 2011
10:55 GMT |
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America's teenagers consume a great variety of drugs, statistics show, among which the most important and dangerous are heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, LSD, ecstasy and marijuana. Over the last few years, since 2000-2002, a decreasing trend in drug use was registered in US secondary schools and ... |
12 December 2008
07:50 GMT |
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Heroin (diamorphine) can from now own be obtained in drug stores in Switzerland, the people voted on Sunday. Patients with severe dependency will be able to buy both their doses and their needles from the pharmacies, in a move that the Social-Democrat party says will drop crime rates in the country. The Swiss People&... |
1 December 2008
02:18 GMT |
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Tobacco smokers may tend to see their habit as not being very healthy, but they don't realize they use a drug. Is it a drug? When a team checked what happened in the brain while smoking or taking opiate drugs (poppy-derived ones, like morphine, heroin, dihydromorphine, hydromorphone, anmain, codeine, thebaine, a... |
18 February 2008
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It's barely been a week since the talented Australian actor Heath Ledger passed away, and already ugly stories are emerging about the actor, hundreds and hundreds of possible scenarios and speculations that claim Heath was everything from a drug addict to a hopelessly depressed, pill-popping drunk who refused to... |
31 January 2008
05:16 GMT |
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Robbie Williams likes to shock the American public and then claim that he was in fact joking. Well, we all know Robbie enjoys his (not so little sometimes) jokes and that most of the times he goes way over the top, only to claim that in fact it's all a question of Americans misunderstanding his sense of humor. A... |
19 October 2007
06:59 GMT |
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Never fear, Amy's here. Cheap line, I know, but as far as I'm concerned and if you just happen to be the drugged-out singer's long lost hubby, this is possibly the worse news you can hear. Amy Winehouse having her heroin fix is NOT, I repeat, NOT to be approached unless heavily armed or in an astronaut... |
25 August 2007
04:11 GMT |
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In three days, heroin has hooked you. To remove the danger, opium production must be stopped. But the fight against opium crops is a sweet-bitter one: when they are eradicated in one place, they pop up in another. An UN report shows that while the opium production in the Golden Triangle (Burma-Laos-Vietnam) has been ... |
27 June 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Video game makers will have a nasty surprise. Their products can turn you into a sociopath: living only in your room, ignoring friends, family, even food, sleep and shower, driven just by the obsession of levels and soars. Many researchers believe one can become as addicted to video games as he/she can be to heroin. ... |
25 June 2007
05:24 GMT |
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