Help for Russia's Drug Addicts

Help for Russia's drug addicts
Andrei, a former drug addict who cooks for the rest of the patients in treatment for drug addiction at City Without Drugs, works in the kitchen in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Oct. 16, 2013. Nine boys, many of whom were either experimenting with drugs or had …
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Macklemore reaches out to Spokane youth battling addiction
"Because I mean he like helped me get over my drug addiction," said Beattie. Aliah Moccasin is getting outpatient treatment at Day Break and said Macklemore's music and his message has made a big impact in her life. "He proved to me that no matter what …
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Group collecting signatures to legalize medical marijuana
Since drugs were decriminalized in Portugal in 2001, drug use in the country has actually fallen because people go to treatment instead of being jailed, he said. Pardee told a similar story to the one he told in June when he spoke at Kendal at Oberlin …
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Gregor Robertson makes mental health Vancouver's new priority
The combination of highly addictive and permanently destructive drugs — such as crystal meth — and the lack of treatment for people with serious mental illness has finally taken its toll on a particular group of residents, many of whom live in …
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