Mum stole grandfather's bank card to fund £600-a-week crack habit in 'disgraceful' action
A court was told how Kelly Thomas, 33, forced her way into his home after spending years previously asking the 75-year-old ...
Prison sex sessions, fake holidays and Spice busts… how love-bombing gangsters turn ordinary women into drug mules
WHEN Amy Hatfield started working as a prison nurse, she would never have thought she’d end up behind bars herself. The ...
The root of our overdose epidemic is not fentanyl. The problem is government myopia | Opinion
Overdose figures are just starting to trend lower, thankfully. But in the six years between the passage of the SUPPORT Act in ...
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'If Smokey can do it, I can do it too.' British Columbians heading to Thailand for addiction treatment
British Columbians are heading to Thailand for addiction treatment, driven by a public health system stretched to its limits ...
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How to stage a drug-abuse intervention
In Payne’s case, the locally reported toxicology reports suggesting that pink cocaine (methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA), crack cocaine ... “The withdrawal symptoms from some drugs can ...
Protesters storm parliament in breakaway Georgian region Abkhazia over deal with Russia
(Reuters) -Protesters stormed the parliament of the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia on Friday and ...
B.C.’s experiments in involuntary care face two crucial tests against the evidence and the electorate
As voters weigh new plans to force more people into treatment for mental illness and addiction, the science to back up their proposals is far from settled ...
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Recreational drugs and what they do to your body
Severe anxiety, restlessness and agitation are major symptoms of cocaine withdrawal. Crack is similar to cocaine in its effects, although crack is much more intense and extreme in its effects.
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Over a third of treatment-seekers from São Paulo’s Crackland report recent use of synthetic cannabinoids
The persistent affordability of crack cocaine stems from longstanding production and distribution ... The Survey found that SC use involves a significant risk of dependence and withdrawal, presumably ...