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Young people in Canada are attracted to raves as being somewhere they can go and dance all night with their friends, with light shows, “atmosphere” and electronic music. It is widely known that substance abuse is common at these events. Raves that allow entry from 16 years up don’t have alcohol service – advertising for these events is heavily salted with oblique references from drug culture...
UNODC reports an estimated 172 -250 million drug users in the world with between 18 and 38 million addicted,in 2009. As drug abuse and dependence increases, so the age at which drugs are first used by children continues to drop. Afghanistan is said to have the lowest ages for children starting drug use in the world.
In a 2006 report by the Daily Mail, Britain’s youngest recorded heroin addict was given heroin...
In modern times we are seeing people living for many years longer than they used to do. In former times the average lifespan was shorter, and more people died prematurely from disease and accidental causes. Today with medical support and surgical interventions, people are continuing to survive and live longer.
Many people are living into old age, with some form of disability. There are also social problems of...
With drug use today spiraling out of control and new users coming into the market for addictive drugs, both prescription and illicit, people are thinking in terms of new ways to enforce drugs control and for winning the war against drugs.
In May 2011, an article appears in the virtual magazine Drink & Drug News (The Magazine for the Substance Misuse Field) that using consumer protection to regulate “legal...
Drug use, both prescription and recreational has become the answer for many people to increasing feelings of despair, isolation and futility, the answer to our pain. A maxim of our times is no pain, no gain. Certainly there will times when our lives are filled with pain, something that we need to feel, resolve, and get back on our feet again. However, today’s society seems to think that the suffering caused by...
