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200 million drug users across the world : UN report
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 sify.com
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Health
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According to a UN report, about 200 million people around the world consume drugs each year, with cocaine, opium and its derivatives - including heroin - topping the list of drugs consumed. The report added that although a large share of the world's population use drugs, only a fraction could be considered 'problem drug users'.
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Drug abuse rising in campuses, call centres
Monday, June 25, 2007 sify.com
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Social Issues , Youth
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The use of drugs is rapidly rising in campuses and call centres across the country. According to the UN Office for Drugs and Crime, a strong partnership between public and private sectors is required to check the growing danger of drug abuse. In a project called "I decide", the UNODC is spreading the message that a person is free to choose how to spend his or her life. The project is being run in
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I-Decide
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To get dope you need to have the ‘network’
Saturday, June 09, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Cities
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Looking for a sniff or a pouch of dope in Mumbai? It’s not difficult, if you have the ‘network’. Drugs such as heroin, charas and the high-end cocaine can be procured, but of course, at a cost. Drugs are increasingly being sniffed, smoked and injected by youngsters, particularly party-goers.
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Mumbai
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Film producer trips on coke
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Crime , Cities
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The Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai police on Tuesday arrested film producer Jagdish Sodha on charges of drug consumption.According to the remand application filed in the metropolitan magistrate’s court, the ANC had arrested a high profile narcotics dealer from Andheri in November.
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Cocaine
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