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

• 29 октября 2014, 18:02

A Member of the Kazakhstan Parliament demanded to urgently ban methadone from being used in Kazakhstan.

• 06 октября 2014, 18:30

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, 14:04

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, 10:17

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, 13:24

A man who used to take heroine and replaced it with methadone (a synthetic substitute of heroine) has had a son.

• 27 мая 2013, 20:12

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, 12:24

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, 11:03

The official numbers can be easily multiplied by 10: expert.

• 25 июня 2012, 17:30

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, 11:42

49,984 people are registered as drug addicts including 4,595 women and 3,071 children.

• 26 октября 2011, 16:58