Prescribe heroin to addicts - officer
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Addicts should be prescribed heroin as a way of curbing crime including murder, a senior police officer suggests.
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Drug users in England are to get shopping vouchers if they stay clean as part of a pilot scheme.
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Portugal is set to join the growing list of countries with drug-injection sites where addicts can shoot up while supervised after Lisbon city hall approved the establishment of two such facilities.
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Â· Number of people treated almost doubles Â· Focus on heroin and crack 'should be reviewed'
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Every Wednesday the men come to see Gary Isler. Like him, they are recovering addicts and ex-convicts. Unlike him, they are living with "the sauce," "the alphabets." HIV.
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 27 -- Opium production in Afghanistan has increased by 34 percent over the past year, and the country is now the source of 93 percent of the heroin, morphine and other opiates on the world market, according to a report by the United Nations' anti-drug agency.
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Drugs charities want to run a bus around Cardiff to let homeless heroin addicts inject themselves.
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BRUSSELS, Mar 1 (IPS) - A growing number of people are getting addicted to   tranquillisers and other prescription drugs, and this abuse is  set to  exceed illicit drug abuse, the International Narcotics  Control Board  (INCB) warns in a report published Thursday.
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The government appealed Wednesday for Dublin's pharmacists to resume distribution of methadone in a dispute that has threatened the outpatient treatment of more than 3,000 heroin addicts.
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Drug users seeking help to quit their habit face a "postcode lottery" of care, a watchdog has said.
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Looking for a cause with a difference?  Adopt a sniper. A Texas police SWAT officer is running a  charity for frontline snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan,  supplying everything from baby wipes to body armor.
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Quick action is needed to fight Afghanistan's growing drug addiction problem to head off an HIV/AIDS crisis in the shattered country, leading health agencies said on Thursday.
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Coupling New England ingenuity with anti-counterfeiting technology, doctors and police in Rutland, Vt., have developed a plan to thwart drug users who forge prescriptions for powerful pain killers like OxyContin.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A19 of the Nov. 23, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This was the Department of Health&#39;s advice yesterday to the public over the
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Mirwais Yasini, director general of  Afghanistan's counter-narcotics department, tells the story of  how a British general asked him for a list of Afghan commanders  involved in the drug trade.
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Afghanistan may be the world's largest producer of heroin, but the government has taken the first step towards to a ban on smoking in public places.
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A major investment in drug rehabilitation services is set to be announced by the Scottish Executive.