When Doctors Discriminate

When Doctors Discriminate

Filed under: drug treatment program statistics

Another time I was lying on the examining table when a gastroenterologist I was seeing for the first time looked at my list of drugs and shook her finger in my face. … Indeed, given my experience over the last two decades, I shouldn't have been …
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Fear and loathing at the border

Filed under: drug treatment program statistics

The heavy-set immigrant stood outside the bus station, trying to figure out a way to get home before he got into trouble with one of the drug cartels operating in Matamoros. “I don't feel … In 2012, Nuevo Laredo had 89.1 homicides per 100,000 …
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Obama administration proposes major changes to criminal justice system

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In a speech on Monday to the American Bar Association, a lawyers' professional group, Attorney General Eric Holder said he favours sending people convicted of low-level offences to drug treatment and community service programmes instead. "We need to …
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Saudi crack addicts get their fix

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It is hard to find statistics about the extent of drug abuse in Saudi Arabia, but Dr Khalid Al-Oufi, medical director of the Al-Amal Rehabilitation Hospital in Jeddah, says that crack cocaine addicts began arriving at the hospital between five and …
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