Programmes are to be set up for prisoners, many of whom are drug addicts or alcoholics.
This wave of tough-on-crime measures was largely fueled by media-driven fears about crack, drug addicts, and gang violence.
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He's also shown that drug addicts have a similar shortage of dopamine receptors.
The Liberal Democrat candidate for the Avon and Somerset police elections says he wants more help for drug addicts.
Mr Van Miert likens them to drug addicts that cannot kick their habit.
La Familia had even been obliged to close a group of rehabilitation centers it ran for alcoholics and drug addicts.
Hundreds more of the 25, 000 Dutch drug addicts might qualify to join a national scheme, which is now under consideration.
Built in 1885 as the Northern Michigan Asylum, the hospital treated the mentally ill, drug addicts and the elderly before finally ceasing operations in 1989.
Gosling, a serious fellow who usually plays alcoholics or drug addicts or murderers, refuses to distance himself from Jacob by parodying the role.
That country has a lower prevalence of hard-drug addicts per head (1.6 per 1, 000) than France (2.4), Britain (2.6), Italy (3.0) and Switzerland (5.0).
Police say they were mostly drug addicts in Shahdra town area.
The WHO has praised the UK's "Find and Treat" service, which uses a mobile X-ray van to screen homeless people and drug addicts for TB.
But the 10-month-old court is part of a larger trend in which cities are forming specialized tribunals to deal with distinct populations, such as drug addicts or the mentally ill.
Sir David has backed policies such as making allowances for drug addicts conditional on them undergoing rehabilitation and a requirement for lone parents of children aged under five to prepare for work.
And, of course, the other problem is if Africans are being used as mules to transport these drugs to Europe, there are going to be drug addicts, of course, here in the region.
Treatment for obesity itself is not considered deductible even if many of those who are overweight equate being addicted to food in much the same way as drug addicts can be addicted to cocaine or heroine.
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Indeed, he has upset many conservatives in Schleswig-Holstein, by opposing their campaign to curb immigration, by backing the retention of mixed-ability secondary schools, and by arguing that drug addicts should be treated as sick people rather than as criminals.
When immunologist Philippe Pouletty was a resident at a hospital emergency room in Paris in the early 1980s, he was struck by the fact that, although 20% of patients admitted were drunks or drug addicts, doctors had no adequate treatment for them.
When the immunologist Philippe Pouletty was a resident at a hospital emergency room in Paris in the early 1980s, he was struck that although 20% of patients admitted were drunks or drug addicts, doctors had no adequate treatment for them.
In 1993, Congress passed the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act, which created a national background-check system and a list of people forbidden to own a gun: felons, the mentally ill, persons who committed a domestic-violence misdemeanor, drug addicts and the dishonorably discharged.
Deputy Justice Minister Hugh Henry said the standards would ensure that treatment programmes for drug addicts across Scotland were provided to a "consistently high standard" and would enable them to get their lives back on track and avoid similar problems in future.
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In addition, amygdala volumes did not correlate with any measure of drug use in the addicts.
The FBI originally raided the clinic in February 2010 to investigate Dr Gosnell's high-volume distribution of painkillers, allegedly to addicts and drug dealers.
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He said while drug dealers should be locked up, addicts needed treatment not sentences for their problem.
To get around the problem of addicts failing to follow a drug regimen, DrugAbuse Sciences is developing a controlled-release version of naltrexone that requires only a monthly injection.
The U.S. has some 60 million smokers, 20 million alcoholics and alcohol abusers, and 21.2 million illicit drug users (over seven million of whom are addicts).
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The researchers included the methadone patients for comparison because this drug (used for pain relief and to wean addicts off heroin) is known to prolong QT interval.
The last United Nations survey of Afghanistan's drug problem four years ago estimated the country's addicts to number about 200, 000.
But it would decrease the violence associated with gangs and drug cartels and it would provide a path to treatment for addicts rather than a path to the penitentiary.
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