Don’t Do Drugs : Subject Narcotics – 1951 Educational Film

Don’t Do Drugs : Subject Narcotics – 1951 Educational Film – Produced for police orientation and training, this film presents drug addiction not simply as a crime but as a deepseated social problem. With dramatized sequences of addicts in shooting galleries and excellent footage of pre-renewal downtown Los Angeles, a neighborhood now lost.

Prescription drug abuse an "epidemic" in Montana

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"We have over 300 Montanans every year who are dying from prescription drug abuse and those are documented at the crime lab, so it's hazardous, it's an epidemic, and we need to try and slow it down as best we can." Last week in Missoula, there were two …
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Illegal drug use on the rise in Africa

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The UN says drug trade has increased in Guinea-Bissau since the April 2012 coup. Gilberto Gerra is chief of drug prevention and health branch at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, (UNODC). He said Africa's rising illegal drug consumption can …
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