UN Report Slams Cruel Drug Treatment as "Torture"

Published March 16, 2013

UN Report Slams Cruel Drug Treatment as "Torture"

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A US-funded drug rehabilitation center in Laos, where harsh conditions have led to many suicide attempts among detainees, who have hung themselves or ingested crushed glass. (worldpolicy.org). NEW YORK, NY — Compulsory “treatment” for drug addiction …
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Changing brain loop could help beat cocaine addiction

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Washington, March 16 (ANI): Cocaine addiction treatment could get easier, with the new discovery of a molecular process in the brain that's triggered by drug use. Scientists say the finding could provide a target for … "At every level that we study …
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David Wright to rest injured side

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He returned to New York for tests and was examined by Dr. David Altchek at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan. Alderson said Wright has a moderate intercostal strain on the left side. He got an injection and will rejoin the team in …
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U.N. development chief slams War on Drugs

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“I've been a health minister in my past and there's no doubt that the health position would be to treat the issue of drugs as primarily a health and social issue rather than a criminalized issue,” she told Reuters. “Once you criminalize, you put very …
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