Northern Shan Residents Force Local Drug Addicts Into Rehab Camps

Northern Shan Residents Force Local Drug Addicts Into Rehab Camps
RANGOON — Residents in Muse, a border town in Burma's northern Shan State, say they have begun rounding up drug addicts and dealers and forcing them into rehabilitation centers to tackle the area's rising drug problem. Northern Shan State, along with …
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Bridget Davis of The “Pocono Mountain Film Festival” An overachiever making a …
Her mother, a counselor at a drug rehabilitation center, would often bring home recovering heroin addicts to show her daughters, first hand, the severely detrimental effects of narcotics abuse. So, Davis found refuge in writing and praying in her …
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Alzheimer's research at crossroads
But pharmaceutical companies have come up empty on developing a drug that removes these plaques and slows or halts memory deterioration, despite spending billions of research dollars. Some scientists now question whether amyloid is the correct target.
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