New Data Available on Worldwide Drug Use and Its Costs in Lives and Productivity

New data available on worldwide drug use and its costs in lives and productivity
Last week, researchers published the first global analysis of the trends and costs of illicit drug use around the world. Using the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010, the group measured years of life lived with disability …
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The Heroin Epidemic: Death toll from drug continues to soar in Cuyahoga County
The three methods quickly deliver the narcotic to the brain, where it attaches to opioid receptors and creates a surge of euphoria, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Christina Delos Reyes, chief clinical officer for the county …
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Time to Ease Up on Crime?
Nonetheless, there are national trends. In the middle 1960s, as the civil-rights movement … Crime plateaued between 1975 and 1995, spiking upward with the crack-cocaine epidemic in the late 1980s. Crime — or “law and order” — became an issue not …
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