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Mother who taught her son to shoot heroin is charged with his death

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The tragic death of the 16-year-old boy, Raymond Strosina product of a cocaine and heroine overdose had a dramatic twist when the justice decided to charge his mother, Patricia Strosina. She is being charged not only of teaching her son to use drugs, but also consuming them together in a regular basis, which led her son’s death.

Heroin abuse spreads through rural Ireland

Heroin abuse has spread across rural Kerry and is no longer confined to poorer urban areas, according to the head of Kerry’s main addiction treatment centre.

Coaxil madness in Russia

The drug market has changed completely in past few years in Moscow. “The time of synthetics has come!”-say drug users.

Everything was clear before: heroin, cannabis, “clubbing” pills. Today the main drugs are so-called pharmaceutical drugs: drugs that cannot be sold without a prescription, but nevertheless they are sold in big quantities through dishonest pharmacists. The most widely-spread and most dangerous one is antidepressant Coaxil. Its affordable and life-threatening if injected intravenously.

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