ASEAN Conference 2014

ASEAN Conference 2014

Education, International

Earlier in the month we had an opportunity to join the ASEAN Conference 2014: Addiction Treatment: Future Challenges and Opportunities. The ASEAN Conference 2014: Addiction treatment: Future challenges and opportunities was held by the Princess Mother National Institute on Drug Abuse Treatment (PMNIDAT), Department of Medical Services, on June 11-13, 2014. Participants included representatives from […]

Teenage Drug Use: No sign of Abatement

Drug Addiction—A Problem without Borders

Drug Addiction—A Problem without Borders

Articles

It’s tempting to blame alcoholism and drug addiction within a society on any number of things: liberal attitudes, cultural exposure through media, emphasis on individual freedom of choice, an ethos that includes “a right to feel good”—all these and more can be pointed to as society’s collective responsibility for alcohol and drug problems. And these, […]

Up and Down in North Korea

Up and Down in North Korea

Articles

North Korea, known as “the Hermit Kingdom” for its insularity is experiencing its own drug epidemic. Amidon addiction is on the rise as more citizens chose it as their new “drug of choice,” following a predictable curve after years of methamphetamine use (speed burnout is often followed by opiate addiction). Amidon is a synthetic opiate, […]

Counterfeit Drugs a Danger in Scotland

Counterfeit Drugs a Danger in Scotland

Alternative Treatment, Education, United Kingdom

The world of drugs—from an enforcement point of view as well as from a consumer’s—is complicated enough without the added wrinkle of fake drugs. Heroin and cocaine have always been adulterated; the profit motive that facilitates distribution guarantees that these drugs—in powder form—will be “stepped on” at every level between manufacture and consumption. Fake ecstasy […]

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