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Updates & Legacy — Stigmabase is a Canadian Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Initiative. Our mission is to inform about stigma around the world and make the data collected accessible for researchers. Stigmabase is very attentive to misinformation and lists only reliable sources. — The marginalization of individuals or categories of individuals is a too common phenomenon. Millions of people are facing this problem around the world and many complex factors are involved.

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Desperate people can do desperate things

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, November 26, 2012

Desperate people can do desperate things

Public methadone programs in Albury and Wodonga are full, forcing patients seeking treatment for their drug addictions to wait or worse still, self-medicate on other illicit substances. AISHA DOW spoke with one of the few Border doctors involved, an ...

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