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Drug Use

  • Decriminalise possession of small quantities of drugs, suggests social justice ministry

    Decriminalise possession of small quantities of drugs, suggests social justice ministry

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 24, 2021 · 07:12 pm
  • Injection drug users fall through the gaps in India’s tuberculosis treatment programme

    Injection drug users fall through the gaps in India’s tuberculosis treatment programme

    Menaka Rao
    · Sep 29, 2017 · 02:30 pm
  • Having lived hedonistic lives, UK's baby boomers are drinking themselves into an early grave

    Having lived hedonistic lives, UK's baby boomers are drinking themselves into an early grave

    Tony Rao, The Conversation
    · Aug 19, 2016 · 03:30 pm
  • Prince’s death from fentanyl is only the tip of the global overdose iceberg

    Prince’s death from fentanyl is only the tip of the global overdose iceberg

    Julaine Allan, The Conversation
    · Jun 05, 2016 · 11:30 pm
  • Countries should put women at the forefront of the UN drug policy debate

    Countries should put women at the forefront of the UN drug policy debate

    Claudia Stoicescu, The Conversation
    · Apr 22, 2016 · 06:30 am