Addiction – Who Will Help Me?

Published March 3, 2014

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Support growing for medical use of marijuana
A leading researcher from Harvard Medical School and a Taunton doctor who has studied the drug both say yes, and that it's high time the sick had legal access to it. Harvard's Dr. Lester Grinspoon has … Grinspoon said up until 1937, marijuana was …
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Drug laws may be debated in Commons as petition passes 100000 threshold
Mr Brand said: "Almost 2,000 young people die in the UK each year from taking illegal drugs of uncertain potency, that they can only get hold of on the illegal market. Leading police, doctors, and politicians … the legal regulation of some or all …
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France's 'invisible disaster': how heroin devastated the banlieues in the 1980s
As very few of us would treat them, they came in from all over the eastern suburbs. We did what we could, making it up as we went along, trying unauthorised replacement substances," Ménard says. Drug addicts in Paris in 1996 Heroin proved deadly in the …
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