MSP Condemns 'Funding Drug Addiction'
MSP condemns 'funding drug addiction'
Filed under: drug addiction news 2010
Figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives through Freedom of Information reveal that in 2010/11 and 2011/12 health boards have spent £3.9 million dispensing 22.2 million items to addicts to help them take drugs. These ranged from spoons to aid …
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Drug, Alcohol Abuse Costs Alaska's Economy .2 Billion
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A new report finds that alcohol and drug abuse cost Alaska's economy $ 1.2 billion in 2010. That number includes direct, immediate costs, such as the $ 217.7 million spent on criminal justice and protective services and $ 237.3 million on health care costs.
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Drugs addict sons, make widows in Punjab
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regime, and also referred to in another document of Punjab government entitled State Disaster Management Plan For 2010-11, which reads "some 73.5 per cent of state's youth between 16 and 35 years are confirmed drug addicts." The plan he mentioned …
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Christie veto of Good Samaritan bill devastates families of drug-overdose …
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Hamilton Township resident Paul Ressler lost his 22-year-old son Corey to drug abuse in 2010 while living with friends in Jersey City. Ressler said he later learned someone dialed 911 on Corey's phone, but then aborted the call. “When you're confronted …
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