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Medical Syringe, Injection, Macro, Syringes, needle concept
Medical Syringe, Injection, Macro, Syringes, needle concept
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Science Chemical Laboratory
industrial food production: researcher behind cress, working at Scientific Experiment with food
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Science Chemical Laboratory
industrial food production: researcher behind cress, working at Scientific Experiment with food
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Science Chemical Laboratory
industrial food production: researcher behind cress, working at Scientific Experiment with food
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Aids Epidemic
Report on the Aids epidemic in NY / Black people walking along busy sidewalks / Police patrol car in street / Pit bull terrier behind fence / Derelict tenement block / Drug dealers in street / Black woman preparing and injecting heroin...
Curated Video
Drug Harm Reduction Programs Could Help Weaken The Fentanyl Crisis
On the streets, fentanyl is replacing heroin as the dominant opiate among drug users, but harm reduction programs could help lessen its use.
Sky News
Babies Born Hooked On Heroin: Special Report
VOICED: New figures suggest the number of babies born addicted to narcotics in the United States has quadrupled in the last decade. Sky News has visited a hospital in Indiana which specialises in treating infants who become dependent on...
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USA: WASHINGTON: ILLEGAL DRUGS STUDY
1. Some 'cutting' cocaine - pull out to show the whole mirror
2. Someone shooting up heroin
3. Wide of presser
4. Cutaway press
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Lee Brown, Director - National Drug Policy
6. someone rolling a joint
7....
Bloomberg
This Ancient African Plant May Be a Cure for Addiction
Jan.27 -- The Iboga plant has been used for tribal rituals in West Africa for millennia. While the highly toxic root causes days-long hallucinations, it may also be the answer to a problem plaguing modern society. Today, Iboga and its...
AFP News Agency
VOICED : US hospital cuts painkiller gateway to heroin addiction
VOICED : US hospital cuts painkiller gateway to heroin addiction
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Taliban Launch Campaign To Eradicate Poppy Crop In Afghanistan
Afghanistan is the world's largest opium producer, and the ban will likely impact millions of impoverished farmers and day laborers.
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Experts Explain Effects of Narcan on Opioids
Prince's final days and unexpected death at age 57 raise questions among experts familiar with prescription painkiller overdoses. It's possible the innovative musician's demise represents one of the most public tragedies in an overdose...
AFP News Agency
VOICED : America's endless battle against lethal drug fentanyl
Born from the overprescription of opioid painkillers the opioid crisis has cost America more than 400,000 lives from 1999 to 2018 according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Sky News
Opiod overdoses reaching epidemic levels in US
VOICED: Almost 100 people die every day in America from opioid overdoses. It's an addiction that some doctors are now calling an epidemic -- and tonight President Trump is expected to declare it a public health emergency. The White House...
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RR7750B HEROIN PROBLEM AND CIGARETTE SMUGGLING
Heroin addiction has become a serious problem in
West Berlin, where customs' problems are letting the
deadly drug be smuggled into the city in huge
quantities. A different type of smuggling is hitting the
local authorities in the north...
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Police on plans to carry emergency antidotes to deal with recent spike in heroin overdoses
Thousands of New York City police officers will soon be carrying emergency antidotes to help deal with the recent spike in heroin overdoses.
The New York State Attorney General along with the city's police commissioner announced on...
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Thousands of New York City police officers will soon be carrying emergency antidotes to help deal with the recent spike in heroin overdoses. (May 27)
Thousands of New York City police officers will soon be carrying emergency antidotes to help deal with the recent spike in heroin overdoses. (May 27)
The New York State Attorney General along with the city's police commissioner announced...
Curated Video
Authorities say the arrest of a man dubbed Mexico''s "king of heroin" has disrupted a $10 million-a-month operation that smuggled tons of heroin a year into the United States.
HEADLINE: Mexico''s ''king of heroin'' now in custody
CAPTION: Authorities say the arrest of a man dubbed Mexico''s "king of heroin" has disrupted a $10 million-a-month operation that smuggled tons of heroin a year into the United...
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Thailand / Akha
SHOWSAkha farmers threshing rice in fieldFarmers working in field on steep hillside, tribal woman looking onGreen, mountainous landscape of northern ThailandMountains shrouded in mistTrack leading to villageAkha man preparing syringe...
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Overdose Deaths Hit Record In U.S. During Pandemic
The proliferation of fentanyl is one reason some experts don't expect any substantial decline in drug overdose deaths this year.
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Arrest of alleged Afghan drug kingpin
New York, USA - 25 April 2005
1. Wide shot US Attorney David Kelley and others walk into press conference in police building
2. Media
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Kelley, US Attorney:
"We are here this morning to announce the arrest...
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washington: latin america said to main link for us narcotics
shows: scene with two congressmen - morgan murphy and robert steele - talk with reporters about recent fact finding trip to south...
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RR7205A USA: HOW TO BEAT HEROIN
Nobody really knows how many heroin addicts there
are in America, but the number is probably at least a
million. Until now, those who have sought treatment
have usually been given Methadone, a synthetic drug
which suppresses the craving...
Bloomberg
Trump: Thousands Will Be Killed Without Action on Border
Jan.08 -- President Trump discusses illegal immigration and border security during his address to the nation from the Oval Office.