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A personal view of Heroin

 

    US policy on Afghan Heroin

    A death warrant for Pakistan's drug users

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    Like in many Asian countries, the issue of opiate use has been prevalent in Pakistan for decades. The causes of opiate addiction in Pakistan are the same as throughout the world with poverty, lack of education and a lack of employment being the central causes. However, whereas in many developed countries their are state provided treatments and counselling as well as charity provided in support, in regions of Pakistan, such as Punjab, these services are provided by a single NGO.

      Heroin's double side

      I remember very well when my father found out that I smoked and told my mother that nothing will prevent me from getting into drugs because I had already discovered the most dreadful vice. Perhaps my father was right because when a couple of years later searching in my pockets one night, he found a packet of Rizla he claimed that I was on my way to perdition and that nothing absolutely nothing will stop me from becoming a heroin addict.

        Russia can do nothing about the supply of heroin to its citizens

        Russian cannot stop heroin

        The Russian Government thinks that drug use is “one of the biggest and most serious threats to our country’s development and our people’s health.” Dmitry Medvedev said this early this month at the international forum Drug Production in Afghanistan: A Challenge to the International Community. Russia is used to dealing with threats with a tough approach.

          Botulism infection among drug-users on the rise

          In the last week there have been reports of a case of botulism in a heroin user from north-west London. The patient involved in this case had injected heroin through skin-popping and was consequently admitted to hospital with a severe infection. The heroin was bought in Watford and Harrow, two separate areas of north London and raises the likelihood that there is a significant batch of contaminated heroin circulating these and surrounding areas.

            Liverpool and the Harm Reduction movement

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            Liverpool has been associated with drug-use since the 1980's, when it was estimated that around 20,000 users lived in the area at that time. As drug-use, in particular, heroin use became more common and visible, public health professionals have been looking for solutions to protect not only the users, but those in the surrounding communities and of society in general.

              How a lack of direction in treating drug-users leaves doctors in a state of limbo

              The UK has a substantial range of services for medicating drug users, however the current system of treatment is extremely complex with different doctors, clinics and health authorities prescribing differing treatments according to their own individual philosophies. These take place in a myriad of different locations, from NHS clinics, private health centres, specialist drug centres, doctor’s surgeries and residential treatment centres.

                The End of Heroin

                End of Heroin

                The UNODC has announced that a fungus is killing the Afghan opium crop. Maria Antonio Costas has said that the fungus is infecting about a half of the Afghani  opium crop, an economic disaster for Afghan farmers. The area’s most affected are those were the insurgency against NATO is strongest.

                  Nurses leader supports prescription heroin on the NHS

                  The general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Peter Carter  has stated that he is in favour of prescribing heroin on the NHS. Dr Carter also said at the RCN congress in Bournemouth that he is in favour of drug consumption rooms where users would be able to inject drugs under medical supervision.

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