Drugs Addict Sons, Make Widows in Punjab

Drugs addict sons, make widows in Punjab

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

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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Marijuana: Facts about Cannabis

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Also called "pot," "weed," "grass," "ganja," and other slang terms, marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In a 2010 survey, 17.4 million people in the United States said they had used …
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Authorities to lay out dangers of prescription drug abuse

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According to results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2010, an estimated 2.4 million Americans had used prescription drugs nonmedically for the first time within the past year, which averages to about 6,600 new users each day.
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