Methadone-related deaths soar

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Methadone-related deaths soar: Some 486 deaths were linked to the heroin-substitute methadone, taking the mortality rate for men from the drug from 9.9 deaths per million of the population in 2010 to 13.5 - a 36% rise and the highest rate since 1997. The mortality rate for women ...



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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent

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UN Forum Explores Ongoing Discrimination Faced By People of African Descent - Participants from Europe, Central Asia and North America gathered this week at a United Nations forum in Geneva to explore ways to combat racial discrimination and to ensure effective promotion and protection of the human rights of people of African descent. Speaking at the opening of the two-day ...
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