RUSSIA:  Losing One in Ten to Drugs
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MOSCOW, Mar 7 (IPS) - Russia is losing one in ten people in its active   population to drugs, a leading medical researcher told IPS.
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Some 1 million Russians are estimated to be HIV positive - but officials have been slow to boost funding.
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There are growing fears that Russia is facing a population crisis that could see the country lose up to 50 million people in the next 50 years.
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thanks to an amazing new experimental drug. A third of the people taking the drug lost at least 10% of their body weight and were able to keep it off for two years.
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The army is losing the equivalent of nearly a battalion to illegal drug use every year, research released Friday said.
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Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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MOSCOW -- Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying yesterday. Nikolai Shepel, Russia's deputy prosecutor general, said forensic specialists found traces of drugs in the bodies of some of the ...
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Russia&#39;s Irina Korzhanenko, who won the Olympic shot put last Wednesday, was stripped of her gold medal Monday because of drug use.
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The government Thursday approved a new program to fight diseases that contribute to Russia's plunging population, which President Vladimir Putin has singled out as a serious hindrance to its prosperity, news reports said.
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We're fighting a war that is inflicting even greater casualties than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, incredibly, costing even more money. We're losing the War on Drugs, and we've been in retreat for three decades.
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The Russian company wins a legal skirmish.
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FORENSIC tests show that some of the terrorists who seized more than 1000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, says senior prosecutor.
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Smoking rates have more than doubled in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, researchers say.
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Afghanistan used to be content merely to supply most of the world's heroin. Now a growing number of Afghans are using the drug as well
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A Greek athlete loses his medal after he tests positive for drugs, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
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A study says Russian men risk death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents with high levels of alcohol.
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MOSCOW, Jun 3 (IPS) - Russia's HIV infection rate continues to rise  -- most notably in the heterosexual and non-drug-using  populations -- despite steady increases in funds to fight the  disease. Experts and medical researchers say dramatic changes in  sexual attitudes and behaviour are essential if the trend is to  be reversed.