Drug addiction slowing down: UN report
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Drug addiction worldwide appears to be slowing down for almost every kind of illicit drug, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said on Friday.
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A cheaper and safer treatment for heroin addicts is found to be as effective as methadone, according to a new study.
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Fewer American youths are using marijuana, LSD and Ecstasy, but more are abusing prescription drugs, the government reported Thursday.
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The British Army, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, is losing the equivalent resources of more than one battalion (500-600 soldiers) a year as a result of illegal drug use, researchers said on Friday.
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Glue-sniffing and other forms of solvent abuse are being overlooked in the fight against drugs, a report finds.
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A part of the brain involved in both drug craving and judgment appears to be smaller in cocaine addicts than in healthy people, researchers have found.
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The rate of illicit drug use remained stable last year in the United States, but there could be a resurgence in the use of ecstasy and LSD among young adults, the federal government reported Thursday.
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Illegal drug use in the United States has dropped sharply since 2001 but abuse of prescription drugs remains a problem, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said Friday.
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Global anti-tobacco efforts aimed at avoiding tens of millions of preventable deaths have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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The extent of Britain's drug problem has been laid bare in a survey which highlighted increasing steroid abuse among young men and the rise of a deadly heroin/crack cocaine cocktail known as speedballing.
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NEW YORK  - A part of the brain involved in  both drug craving and judgment appears to be smaller in cocaine  addicts than in healthy people, researchers have found.
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Coping with rising methamphetamine use by adults is one of the top challenges U.S. child welfare agencies say they will face in the next five years, the government said in a report released on Friday.
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Not enough is being done to prevent the spread of HIV among Asian drug users, researchers say.
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Reuters London Oct 29: UN figures on Afghanistan will show a big rise in drug cultivation and production in the past year, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Jack Straw has said, as he chided international donors for not meeting their pledges.
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More than a third of  patients in Africa die or stop taking HIV drugs within two years of starting, research shows.
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Heroin production is booming in Afghanistan, undermining democracy and putting money in the coffers of terrorists, according to a U.N. report Thursday that called on U.S. and NATO-led forces get more involved in fighting drug traffickers.
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More than half the world's countries are falling behind in a U.N. campaign to reduce child deaths by two-thirds by 2015, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF reported on Thursday.