Mozambique: Prison Services Deny 'Sex Slaves' Claim
Mozambique: Prison Services Deny 'Sex Slaves' Claim
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They were all arrested at Maputo International Airport on various occasions over several years, and found to be carrying cocaine in their luggage or in their stomachs. … "All receive the same treatment, and have the same rights", he stressed. The … Read more on AllAfrica.com
Marijuana's health effects need more study, say experts
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Marijuana use rates have risen by 30 percent from 2006 to 2010, according to a new study from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. During this time frame, cocaine use fell by about half while … Read more on BusinessGhana
Watch: New England Town Ripped Apart by Heroin
Watch: New England town ripped apart by heroin
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Between 2012 and 2013, Vermont's deaths from opiate overdoses doubled, Shumlin said, and the number of Vermonters seeking treatment for opiates skyrocketed 771 percent since 2000. Vermont is not alone, as heroin use has catapulted across the country … Read more on Al Jazeera America (blog)
As heroin use spikes, focus shifts to drug that saves addicts
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Federal data show heroin use rose 79 percent in the United States between 2007 and 2012. Heroin-related deaths are also spiking in … Donald Keith, a certified addictions treatment counselor in Orange County, said Tuesday that 75 percent of the cases … Read more on OCRegister
City to Consider Drug Law Reform
City to consider drug law reform
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He suggested that a similar approach of eliminating incarceration for personal-use quantities of drug possession in Portugal over a decade ago reduced problemaic drug use, overdose deaths and HIV infections and led to more drug users seeking voluntary … Read more on Evanston Now
Filings suggest judge's jailed son got special treatment
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Prosecutors filed the reports during the pretrial exchange of information in the charges faced by Colvin and several other people, including his 56-year-old ex-girlfriend, Debra Bell, who also worked at the Clerk's Office at the time of the cocaine … Read more on The Advocate
Violent Picture Surfaces of Suspect in Bobo Case
Violent picture surfaces of suspect in Bobo case
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Adams has a history of violence toward women, including a conviction for shooting his mother in the knee in 2004, according to court records. The frequency of the violence increased as Adams' drug use progressed from the possession of marijuana to … Read more on The Tennessean
A guide to all the movies showing at Australian cinemas
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Though the treatment is banned in the US, Woodroof starts smuggling the stuff across the border, after which he turns a tidy buck selling it to fellow sufferers. As he gradually drops his … Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline and Robert De … Read more on Herald Sun
Heroin Deaths Up Sharply in Connecticut
Heroin Deaths Up Sharply In Connecticut
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Accidental deaths from all drugs — including heroin, cocaine, morphine, codeine and mixes of drugs — increased 38 percent in Connecticut to 490 in 2013 from 355 in 2012, according to the data. The steep death toll has continued into 2014, police said … Read more on FOX CT
Pa. doctors: Painkillers can lead to heroin, ODs
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And, she said, prescription overdose deaths now outnumber heroin and cocaine overdose deaths combined. "More Pennsylvanians now die from … Dr. Michael Ashburn, director of the Penn Pain Medicine Center in Philadelphia, said during a conference call … Read more on Pocono Record
Why Don’t People Open Their Eyes to Medicinal Marijuana?
Question by Alex: Why don’t people open their eyes to medicinal marijuana?
Why doesn’t everyone open their eyes to medicinal marijuana?
Many have heard of a theory that marijuana can help fight against cancer and prevent cancer by inhibiting tumor growth but is this true? And if it is, why has it not been exposed? For those who do not know, there was a study done several years ago by Manuel Guzman, a professor at Complutense University in Madrid. Here is the study.
“The study by Manuel Guzmán of Madrid Spain found that cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals. They do so by modulating key cell-signalling pathways, thereby inducing direct growth arrest and death of tumor cells, as well as by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that supply the tumor.”