Mind-Bending Behind Bars: Drug Use in British Prisons

Mind-bending behind bars: drug use in British prisons

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If you want one single statistical correlation that makes a mockery of all attempts to impose such crude quantifiers on the complex pattern of our collective interaction with intoxication, you can try this one: the amount of alcohol drunk per capita in …
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Ease the pain

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But Vorse said Oklahoma does not sufficiently support drug treatment programs that could help people overcome addiction. “Instead we send people to jail,” he said. “We incarcerate twice as many women as any other state. Most of these women are in …
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With meagre resources, little hope for thousands of druggies

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Originally from Sargodha, he came to the capital in the hope of taking charge of his life and was admitted to the Model Addiction Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre (MATRC) in Islamabad. “I've used morphine, heroin, and opium. Even injecting drugs …
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