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Kazakhstan to keep methadone therapy for now The government of Kazakhstan has announced it would continue the controversial methadone therapy until 2015.

29 октября 2014

Methadone should be banned: Kazakh MP A Member of the Kazakhstan Parliament demanded to urgently ban methadone from being used in Kazakhstan.

06 октября 2014

Gambling, IT, booze addictions rife in Japan: study Nearly five percent of Japanese adults are addicted to gambling, a rate up to five times that of most other nations, according to a study.

21 августа 2014

Twitter unveils video ads Twitter on Tuesday unveiled a new advertising program that delivers "promoted videos" to the tweet stream of users of the popular messaging platform.

13 августа 2014

US plans lower sentences for drug users The United States announced plans Monday to reduce its use of mandatory sentences for drug offenses in order to tackle a cycle of poverty and incarceration in overcrowded jails.

13 августа 2013

First 'methadone baby' born in Aktobe A man who used to take heroine and replaced it with methadone (a synthetic substitute of heroine) has had a son.

27 мая 2013

Sao Paulo begins mandatory detention of crack addicts Brazil's economic capital Sao Paulo on Monday began mandatory detention of drug addicts for rehab, authorities said, amid rising worries over an epidemic of crack cocaine use.

23 января 2013

Addiction to heroin can be blocked: research Addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, according to research released Wednesday which could prove a major breakthrough in treating addicts and in pain relief treatments.

17 августа 2012

Every fifth Kazakhstan citizen is an alcoholic: expert The official numbers can be easily multiplied by 10: expert.

25 июня 2012

Kazakhstan Interior Ministry called doctors to disclose information on drug addicts There should be an agreement between law-enforcement authorities and Healthcare Ministry to make preventive work by authorities and doctors more efficient: expert.

25 июня 2012

Over 3 thousand drug addicted children registered in Kazakhstan 49,984 people are registered as drug addicts including 4,595 women and 3,071 children.

26 октября 2011