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Russia - Narcotic mushrooms
Autumn can be a beautiful time of year in many parts of the world, but for police in St. Petersburg, Russia, the sooner it's over, the better. The problem: Narcotic mushrooms.
Mind-bending, psychodelic fungi thrive in the damp, fertile...
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Justice Department Says DEA Was Slow To Respond To Opioid Epidemic
In a new report, the Justice Department says the DEA did not use its available resources to combat the diversion of opioids to unauthorized users.
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The Lack of Mental Health Services In Rural Areas
In Colorado, mental health care facilities are concentrated in bigger cities and harder to find for the roughly 720,000 people living in rural areas.
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SWITZERLAND: 75% VOTE AGAINST LEGALISATION OF DRUGS
SHOTLIST: Geneva & Berne, Switzerland - 29 & 28 November 1998
AGENCY COMMON - Geneva, 29 November
1. Campaign sign on billboard in the street
2. Various people in voting station and voting
3. Various voting box being...
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is suing Florida Gov. Rick Scott over ordering drug testing for all state employees, regardless of suspicion.
HEADLINE: ACLU challenges drug testing of Fla. state workers
CAPTION: The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is suing Florida Gov. Rick Scott over ordering drug testing for all state employees, regardless of suspicion. (June...
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Study Suggests Opioid Death Rates Rise After Auto Plant Closures
Researchers found the rate of opioid-related deaths among adults were about 85% higher in U.S. counties where an auto factory had recently closed.
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Legal Highs Putting 'Unacceptable' Strain On NHS
VOICED: Death Rate For Legal Highs Has Tripled Showing Interior shots Go Pro Camera point of view ambulance travelling through town, Exterior shots anonymous legal highs user, patient wheeled to ambulance, Interior shots paramedics...
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Drug abuse in Afghan refugee camps
1. Bus on city street - pans right to sewage channel
2. Group of men high on drugs stumbling around underneath road bridge next to sewage channel
3. Man indicating to camera that he is hungry
4. Various of man preparing to smoke...
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TAIWAN: DRUG ADDICT REHABILITATION CENTRE
Man/Eng/Nat
Since the beginning of the 1980's, the Taiwanese government has faced a serious drug epidemic.
Two years ago, it declared war against the island's drug dealers. The three-point programme focused on enforcement, education...
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Heroin use in Kenya is on the increase
1. Various shots of the Coastal beach.
2. Various shots of drug addict injecting heroin
3. Various shots of recovered drug addicts playing football at rehabilitation centre.
4.SOUNDBITE: (English) Nishaz Walji, Recovered Drug...
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A UN report shows that the use of opiate drugs has doubled by Afghan citizens. This comes as a blow to the Afghani government and its international allies who are pouring billions into cutting down drug trade which largely funds the Taliban insurgency.
HEADLINE: Afghan opiate use doubles in 5 years, UN says
CAPTION: A UN report shows that the use of opiate drugs has doubled by Afghan citizens. This comes as a blow to the Afghani government and its international allies who are pouring...
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Star talks about his latest film, 'A Scanner Darkly'
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Warner Independent Pictures
1. Clip: 'A Scanner Darkly'
AP Television
New York - 5 July, 2006
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Downey Jr.:
"I don't know if it was important or not. I...
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RR7613C THAILAND: CURING DRUG ADDICTS
Almost one per cent of Thailand's population is
addicted to hard drugs. That is 350,000 people. One
man who is doing something about it is Phra
Chamroon Panchan, the abbot of a Buddhist temple
seventy miles from Bangkok. His methods...
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Obama: 'Staggering' Cost of Opioid Abuse
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus051957Speaking at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta, Georgia President Barack Obama said the trajectory of opioid deaths in the United States was trending in the wrong...
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Predicting which smokers will give up successfully ++REPLAY++
London, UK, November 26, 2012
1. Close of cigarette being lit up
2. Mid of man lighting up cigarette
3. Close of woman smoking cigarette
4. Mid of woman sitting with man and smoking
5. Close of cigarette over ashtray
6. Close of...
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First Lady to UN: 'Step Up' to Protect Children
First lady Melania Trump is calling on world leaders to "step up" to improve the lives of children.
She delivered the remarks Wednesday during a luncheon at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York. The audience...
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First Lady to UN: 'Step up' to protect children
US First lady Melania Trump is calling on world leaders to "step up" to improve the lives of children.
She delivered the remarks Wednesday during a luncheon at the US Mission to the United Nations in New York. The audience...
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First Lady to UN: 'Step Up' to Protect Children
First lady Melania Trump is calling on world leaders to "step up" to improve the lives of children.
She delivered the remarks Wednesday during a luncheon at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York. The audience...
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Drug dealer busted in police operation
VOICED: County Lines drug kingpin arrested in police operation. SHOWS: Police busting in to drug dealers home in the middle of the night, drug dealing being arrested and put into back of police van, Home Secretary Priti Patel out with...
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Life inside a celebrity rehab centre
When it comes to helping the stars sober up then the number one Hollywood choice has become the Promises Treatment Center in California.
Perched amid the picturesque Santa Monica Mountains, with a gorgeous view of the glistening Pacific...
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PERU: TRADITIONAL MEDICINE USED FOR TREATING DRUG ADDICTION
Spanish/Nat
Deep in the Amazon jungle, traditional medicines are being used to treat a growing modern day problem- drug addiction.
Addicts are treated with Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic beverage said to cleanse the soul and spirit, which...
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Unofficial reports say more than 2.2 million of Iran's 80 million population are addicted to various drugs and stimulants. Former addicts are helping users to recover. (Feb. 12)
SOUNDBITE (English voice of translator) Arash (no last name given), drug addict:
"Over the past four years I tried several times to quit and once I even managed to remain clean for six months."
SOUNDBITE (English voice of translator)...
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Two Men Die AFter Taking 'Superman' Ecstasy Pills
Two Men Die AFter Taking 'Superman' Ecstasy Pills