Questions about the effectiveness of treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been raised in a new study. The study examined...
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Transnational organized crime threats in East Asia and the Pacific
UNODC launched today an assessment of the transnational organized crime threat in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region....
Italy files new charges over judge Giovanni Falcone slain by mafia
Italian prosecutors on Tuesday charged eight new people over the 1992 mafia bombing assassination of judge Giovanni Falcone — an...
SAM – Smart Approaches to Marijuana
SAM – Smart Approaches to Marijuana
U.S: Marijuana research funding cut as support for drug grows
As more states embrace legalized marijuana, the drug’s growing medicinal use has highlighted a disturbing fact for doctors: scant research...
900 kg of heroin seized in Russia this year
Almost 900 kilograms (2,000 lbs) of Afghan heroin were seized in Russia in the first three months of 2013, the...
Opium crop in Afghanistan heading for record levels
Afghanistan’s opium crop is heading towards record levels a bleak forecast warns, as the country risks becoming a narcostate despite...
Cartel money laundering case to begin in Texas
Prosecutors in Texas are set to open their case against leaders of a violent cartel accused of buying racehorses to...
Public slams tobacco industry as untrustworthy
Almost two thirds (65 per cent) of the public distrust the tobacco industry to present believable and independent arguments about...
Medical marijuana is far from medicine
Protecting children and vulnerable adults from the destruction substance abuse can cause should not be a partisan issue. In fact,...