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Former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski on Sunday called for drug decriminalisation at the opening of a global conference to curb the spread of HIV, with backing from the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

• 11 июня 2013, 10:04

Independent experts urged US regulators Thursday to reduce restrictions on GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes drug Avandia, banned in Europe over heart attack risk concerns.

• 07 июня 2013, 15:59

Rock icon Elton John has urged compassion for people who inject drugs, saying "stigma and criminalisation" robbed them of their humanity and exposed them to a life of addiction and disease.

• 06 июня 2013, 13:12

Spanish customs agents have intercepted a fishing boat carrying just over 17 tonnes of hashish in the Mediterranean and detained the ship's 14 crew members, all of them Egyptian nationals.

• 03 июня 2013, 16:53

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

Australia seized a record 23 tonnes of illicit drugs in 2011-2012 with arrests at a 10-year high, data showed Monday, as officials warned the country had become a key target for traffickers.

• 20 мая 2013, 13:42

Costa Rica's President Laura Chinchilla was embroiled in scandal Thursday amid revelations that she used a private jet made available by a Colombian suspected of links to drug trafficking.

• 17 мая 2013, 15:44

US President Barack Obama heads to Costa Rica on Friday for a summit with Central American leaders on trade, immigration and the drug war after renewing security ties with Mexico.

• 03 мая 2013, 15:48

US President Barack Obama should address human rights violations related to Mexico's Washington-backed war on drugs when he visits the country this week.

• 01 мая 2013, 17:19

Gene analysis of malaria parasites has pinpointed western Cambodia as the hotspot of strains that are dangerously resistant to artesiminin, the frontline drug against the disease.

• 29 апреля 2013, 15:27

Could New York hold the record for most pot possession arrests? A new report out Tuesday said police there spent about a million hours taking offenders into custody between 2002 and 2012.

• 21 марта 2013, 11:22

There are 40 000 registered drug addicts in Kazakhstan at present.

• 28 февраля 2013, 15:50

It has been called the world's oldest recorded disease, an evil that humans have known for more than 3,500 years, as papyri from ancient Egypt testify.

• 27 января 2013, 11:07

A drug found to affect the cognitive ability of toddlers born to women who took the medication for epilepsy has a longer-term impact on their IQ.

• 25 января 2013, 10:27

Afghan militants may come to Central Asia after withdrawal of the international coalition troops from Afghanistan: Asseylbek Mendygaliyev.

• 21 января 2013, 16:26

India's Supreme Court said Thursday that unregulated clinical trials of new drugs were causing "havoc" in the country as it ordered the health ministry to monitor any new applications for tests.

• 04 января 2013, 13:01

Kazakhstan Interior Minister speaks about complications in countering drug business.

• 20 ноября 2012, 13:44

The Singapore parliament has passed legal reforms abolishing mandatory death sentences in some drug trafficking and murder cases, giving fresh hope to dozens of inmates awaiting execution.

• 16 ноября 2012, 14:45

A Kazakhstan student who used to study in one of Guangzhou universities is currently serving a life sentence for possession and distribution of hard drugs.

• 08 ноября 2012, 16:21

Opium cultivation in Southeast Asia has doubled over the last six years as growing demand for heroin in China and the rest of Asia lures more farmers to grow poppies.

• 01 ноября 2012, 11:44