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Qatar marks International Day Against Drug Abuse

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To mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which falls on June 26, the director general of Public Security, Staff Major General Saad bin Jassim al-Khulaifi, inaugurated yesterday a security exhibition at the Landmark Mall …
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Addiction relapse might be thwarted by turning off brain trigger

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A new study by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UC San Francisco offers encouraging findings that researchers hope may one day lead to a treatment option for people who suffer from alcohol abuse disorders and other …
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Perscription drugs: Over perscribed, over billed and over medicated

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More than half of 736 physicians studied wrote prescriptions for extremely high amounts of controlled substances that have the potential for addiction and abuse. The most commonly prescribed drugs, the report found, include antibiotics, antidepressants …
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