Violence and Substance Abuse

Violence and Substance Abuse – Statistics show that there is a strong correlation between violence and substance abuse and dependence.

Few surprises in booze, drug report

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However, an informal survey of local teenagers who were not part of the poll suggested statistics might be underestimated. Regional data, derived from the Ontario student drug use and health survey conducted by the Centre for Addiction and Mental …
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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

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Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it's ever been in U.S. history. … In appropriate cases, prosecutors would …
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Trafficking in north Africa

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Libya lacks statistics, but according to Wolfram Lacher, a north Africa expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, drugs trafficking in the country, particularly of hashish and tramadol, a strong painkiller, has …
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