Worlds Most Dangerous Drugs: January 2012

Bad heroin could be behind overdose uptick

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Bad heroin may be making the rounds in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as residents report an uptick in heroin overdoses. Lorraine Grieves of Vancouver Coastal Health sent a message to staff on Friday, warning of "numerous reports of heroin overdoses...

Two more women were caught trying to sneak drugs into SA last week, just a month after the execution of Durban-born drug mule Janice Linden.

The two women are among dozens of South Africans arrested for the transport of drugs in the past two months. On Wednesday, a middle-aged woman was arrested on the border of Namibia and SA, at the Ariamsvlei border post, allegedly transporting...

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Between 2004 and 2007 there were 282 cocaine-related deaths In the same period there were 376,000 users per year aged 25 or less And there were 133,000 over 35s using every year during that time Men are more than twice as likely to die from cocaine than females Almost one in 10 Britons aged 15-64 have taken cocaine (and one in seven aged 15-34) - the highest in Europe Spain next, with 8.3 per cent and Ireland fourth with 8.2 per cent Usage between 15-34 increased by 50 per cent since 2003 Cannabis still more widely used than cocaine: 75.5million Europeans have smoked (one in four)

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Bad heroin could be behind overdose uptick

Two more women were caught trying to sneak drugs into SA last week, just a month after the execution of Durban-born drug mule Janice Linden.

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