WFAD 2012 – Drugs Trends in Asia and the Response – Sri Lanka, Thailand and the SMART Program

Published March 12, 2014

WFAD 2012 – Drugs Trends in Asia and the Response – Sri Lanka, Thailand and the SMART Program — Speakers: Beate Hammond United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UN Naret Songkrawsook CLANPO, Thailand Pubudu Sumanasekara Adic SL, Sri Lanka.

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Update On Binge Drinking Among College Students: From Bad To Worse
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a yearly nationwide survey of alcohol and other drug use with examining 50,000 students in 8th, l0th, and 12th grades pooled from 420 public and private schools. Roughly 2,400 graduating … As researchers employ more …
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Heroin Deaths Up Sharply In Connecticut
… Hartford Courant; video by Crystal Hall, FOX CT. Accidental heroin deaths in Connecticut last year were up 48 percent from 2012, mirroring a trend across New England and the nation that the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called an …
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