Claus Mogensen 45 years old is a chronic drug addict who lives in Arhus,Denmark.

Clause takes a nap at his room to cool down his system.

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Waking up every day with a craving for a substance which has not only destroyed your life but has also taken away your brother,everyone's trust in you, and puts you in the
same categories as the lowest members of society,ever wondered what is it like?
Claus Mogensen 45 years old is a chronic drug addict who lives in Arhus,Denmark.He is noticeably shaking and restless as he sits down on the mattress in the
small, dirty living room.The surroundings seem to lack everything, as if all the valuables and appliances that once sat in this small, deteriorating room has been used to barter for
more drugs.Claus goes to his empty fridge and removes three small bottles of Methadone dosage prescribed by his doctor which he has to take everyday.
Methadone is a narcotic pain reliever, similar to Morphine. It reduces withdrawal symptoms in people addicted to heroin or other narcotic drugs without causing the "high"
associated with the drug addiction.Clauses older brother was on heroin and died six years ago due to overdose. "That shocked the sense out of me,but i haven`t been able to stop using it"says Claus.
I remember smoking tobacco when i was 14 and was given cigarettes by my friend.During lunch hour at school we used to sneak out to smoke. I continued smoking until i was 18 years old then I started using Marijuana."I did not feel high i wondered why people smoke it" he says.
I smoked it because my friends used it,peer pressure you could call it. His school grades started dropping down because he lost concentration in class due to excess of marijuana.He then dropped out of school and never continued with his secondary education.At the age of 19, during a new year party there were people taking cocaine and some of my friends talked me into trying some.I remember feeling so warm and secure.At this point Claus would do just a little bit of it at a time to make the feeling and the supply last as long as possible.I started out doing it only on the weekends.

Then it wasn’t long afterwards, he started buying for his own. Soon he was doing it every weekend. It became the main focus of all his activities.I liked traveling a lot and everywhere I went with my friends we wanted to have cocaine.It made the experience a lot more fun and enjoyable.Other friends we met really appreciated us having some really good stuff and it made me feel like I was important and gave me a powerful sense of control.
He takes a one minute nap while seated at a chair during the conversation and immediately wakes up and apologizes.

He used cocaine for some years before his taste in drugs turned to heroin.At the age of 24 he became addicted to it.On the 6th December 1989 he was admitted at a psychiatric
hospital for mental disorder because of excessive usage of heroin. "I dont know what happened but i became dependant on it and i kept using more" he says.
Claus has been in and out of the psychiatric hospital for many years.The treatment did not only work on his mental health but also his love life,in 2004 while at the hospital he fell in love with 55 years Lene who was also undergoing treatment on mental disorder at the time. They both fell for each other and have been together for six years now. "I used to feel rejected and lonely but after meeting her ,it made me feel appreciated and loved despite the fact that i have my addiction,"he says.
Both live apart and don`t have kids.

He admits that he cannot perform any job without a dose of Cocaine fuelling his system and that does not come cheaply since one dose of the kill-me-slowly powder costs
DKK180. “Drugs have definitely become part of my body system and I cannot do without. I don’t even fear the police or dread contracting diseases any more,” he says.
In February this year Denmark opened its first clinic equipped to distribute free heroin under medical supervision to people heavily addicted to the drug.The clinic is set to serve
only 120 of some 300 hard-core heroin addicts.The objective is not to cure heroin addicts, but to help those who are not satisfied by Methadone by providing them with clean
heroin, allowing them to avoid disease and the temptation of criminal acts to obtain the drug.
Clause is one of the beneficiaries.He receives his doses everyday and he prefers methadone to injecting himself but still he sniffs cocaine. He receives DKK 13,000 per month
from the government for his upkeep which mostly he uses to buy cocaine. Each cocaine addict needs roughly DKK 300 a day to satisfy his or her crave. This amounts to DKK 109,500 Thousand per year to spent on cocaine alone.

According to the 2009 report on the drug situation in Denmark prepared by the National Board of Health, the Danish “Focal Point”,there are an estimated 13,000 intravenous drug users in Denmark.It also states that In 2008, more than half (61%) of the young population aged between 18 and 24 years was admitted to treatment for cannabis use as their primary drug, whereas 17%, 6% and 2%, respectively, of the young population were admitted to treatment for use of amphetamine, cocaine and ecstasy as their primary drug. Globally, United Nation Office On Drug and Crime estimates that between 155 and 250 million people, or 3.5% to 5.7% of the population aged 15-64, had used illicit substances at least once in the previous year. Cannabis users comprise the largest number of illicit drug users(129-190 million people). Amphetamine-type stimulants are the second most commonly used illicit drugs, followed by opiates and cocaine. However, in terms of harm associated with use, opiates(Heroin, Morphine)
would be ranked at the top.

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Daniel Zamora climbed the crime ranks to reach one of the world's most ruthless employers

Daniel Zamora climbed the crime ranks to reach one of the world's most ruthless employers: a Mexican drug cartel capable of providing power and money even if the path meant prison or death.
Which for "Danny Boy," it did. He was dead by the age of 32, but not before bringing his family and friends along for a wildly perilous ride.
Their collective story is one of a modern-day mafia, every bit as merciless as the mobsters of Chicago, Boston and New York — but these small-time criminals hit it big on the streets of Houston.
"We all knew each other for years," said Saul Salinas Jr., now serving 10 years for a plot involving more than a ton of cocaine, and whose brother became Zamora's hated rival.
Zamora's rise and fall is chronicled by police reports, interviews, court testimony and an array of documents churned out by several prosecutions, including his brother's capital murder conviction last week.
From it all emerges a vivid account of kidnapping, murders, pistol-whippings, robberies and betrayal tying the East End clan to Mexico.
"So many lives were ruined or were marked," Assistant Harris County District Attorney Colleen Barnett said. "We are the tail of the dog, and the people in Mexico are running the show. We see the violence right in our backyard."
For Zamora, the possibilities seemed endless. From making $250 a week detailing cars and installing alarms for a place on the Gulf Freeway, he rose to the role of boss for a cell that smuggled millions of dollars worth of cocaine to Houston. The trusted boy he rode bikes with as a kid became a top enforcer, enlisting his own family, in at least one instance, to kidnap and torture a man over a drug debt.
They wrapped his head in duct tape and pummeled him with fists, a beat-down the victim said was so fierce he was sure he was going to die.
Zamora's older brother, Jaime Arturo Zamora, 40, is now serving life without parole over a drug hit that killed the wrong man in a case of mistaken identity.
The Zamoras, like many East End kids, were brought to Houston as young children by parents who emigrated from south of the border.
Parts of the area have the feel of Mexico: brightly painted homes and narrow streets, store signs in Spanish and snow cones sold from carts.
The Zamoras knew these streets. And they were comfortable on both sides of the border, skills that served the brothers well.
Danny Zamora's first felony conviction came for stealing a car in 1993, his cohort Saul Salinas at his side. A litany of arrests followed. His final prison stint came for running heroin in the streets for the Texas Syndicate, the state's oldest prison gang.
While doing time in federal prison, he made his first Mexican cartel connection.
Zamora would catapult from errand boy to player.
After his release in 1998 from the prison in Big Spring - a few months early for good behavior - Zamora was deported back to his native Monterrey, Mexico.
No matter. His bravado was raging.
From Monterrey, he called the shots and served as the bridge between the cartel that brought in tons of cocaine from Colombia, and his family in Houston who helped move the drugs.
The flashy and personable Zamora rode in expensive sport utility vehicles and wore hefty gold. A regular at nightclubs, he raised eyebrows in Monterrey as a new-money gangster, all of this well before the violence now wracking that city.
Cocaine stashed in secret compartments was driven in cars and pickups to Houston. From there, Zamora's clan did the rest: Drugs were unloaded and cash from their sale stuffed back in the compartments to return to Mexico.
"We started getting bigger and bigger," recalled Zamora's brother-in-law, Rogelio Gonzalez, who counted money for the organization but later became the bookkeeper and Zamora's party buddy and confidant. Gonzalez was the high school sweetheart of Zamora's sister, whom he married.
Hundreds of pounds of cocaine were kept stashed in the attic of Gonzalez's home. Once, he was pistol-whipped in his own house in front of his terrified family by rival gangsters disguised as police.
They were moving more cocaine than ever.
"It was every two days, then every day," he said of loads arriving. "We started working with a big company over there," referring to a cartel he did not name.
While the Zamoras lived in modest homes on Avenue E, it was an open secret that they were in the drug business and business was good. But in Houston, trouble was brewing.
Santiago "Chago" Salinas, brother of Saul Salinas and a longtime friend who spent many a night drinking with Zamora, decided to bolster his own business by going behind Zamora's back.
He knew the profit "Danny Boy" was making and wanted cocaine at a lower price.
The dispute intensified. Zamora warned Santiago Salinas that if he came to Mexico, he would be killed. Salinas went anyway. He was shot in the neck and left for dead.
He survived and returned to Houston, where he was overheard bragging at a bar that Zamora and his gangsters were too inept to kill him.
"They couldn't even shoot him right," convicted drug trafficker Ben Rosales recalled of Salinas' words.
Salinas sought revenge. Grenades were launched into a Monterrey restaurant where Zamora was celebrating his birthday. Zamora was unscathed but others died.
The war continued with Salinas' brother-in-law being dragged from his home in Mexico, tortured and killed, his body found in a barrel.
Not long after, Zamora's enemies at last cornered him and used a shotgun to blast him in the face. He was killed on the dance floor of a Monterrey nightclub.
It had been 13 years since that first car-theft arrest.
With his younger brother dead, Jaime Zamora inherited a business and a war.
By most accounts, he was different from Danny Boy.
He talked less, had no criminal record and kept a day job as a supervisor in Houston's municipal parks department.
He was known to disappear for long stretches as his crew worked, then come around with wads of cash to treat everybody to lunch.
Although Jaime Zamora had overseen Houston drug operations for his brother, he had never been in charge.
He took up drinking. And just days after his brother's funeral, began to plot revenge on Santiago Salinas.
Gangsters loyal to Zamora cruised the streets of Houston and searched local haunts.
Word finally came on the night of May 20, 2006, that Santiago Salinas was in Chilos, a restaurant on Houston's Gulf Freeway.
A hit team was dispatched. But as Salinas dined in the restaurant, so did Jose Perez - just a guy eating dinner who looked like Salinas. When Perez and his family walked outside, an assassin gunned him down. Salinas escaped.
"It was unprovoked, a straight-up killing, an assassination," said Billy Bell, a retired police officer who first investigated the case.
Salinas would be dead six months later. Three strippers lured him to a Houston motel as part of a trap.
Jaime Zamora was allegedly overheard telling a hit man, make it "a closed casket," an echo of his brother's demise.
Salinas was shot three times in the head.
Two years later, a weapons trafficker turned confessor told authorities he knew about the Chilos killing and, in return for leniency, would help snare those responsible.
Jaime Zamora was arrested, as was the gunman, the getaway driver, and the money man - already on probation for another murder.
All were convicted for their roles in Perez's death. Zamora last week got a life sentence, on top of 27 years without parole for a drug conviction.
A straight-faced Zamora has never said a word to police about the murders, including Salinas' killing, which has never been solved.
At one point during Zamora's recent trial, his mother and Salinas' mother were together in a courtroom.

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in the grip of an out-of-control methamphetamine scene

two Tauranga men were murdered the area was in the grip of an out-of-control methamphetamine scene, a High Court jury has been told.

It was an era when there was big money to be made manufacturing and dealing in the drug, with violence and conflict regularly featuring, Tauranga crown prosecutor Greg Hollister-Jones said in the High Court at Rotorua today.

He was outlining a complex series of events culminating in the deaths of Darrell James Crawford and William Taikato.

The Crown alleges Mr Crawford was murdered in August 2007 and Mr Taikato four months later. Neither man's body has been found, their families had not heard from them, their bank accounts remained untouched and their cellphones silent.

Mark Haimona Puata, 50, of Te Puke, is charged with Mr Crawford's murder on or about August 12, 2007. In addition he is charged with David Peter James Anderson, 41, and John Aitken, 33, both of Welcome Bay, with murdering William Taikato, 40, on or around December 19, 2007.


Anderson is charged in the alternative with being an accessory after the fact of Mr Taikato's murder.

Mr Hollister-Jones told the jury Mr Crawford was a meth "cook" and Mr Taikato was heavily involved with the drug and those associated with it.

At the time of Mr Taikato's death Aitken was president of the Greasy Dogs gang, Anderson was a fellow member. It was the Crown's contention Mr Taikato died outside the gang's Welcome Bay "pad".

There had not been any sightings of Mr Crawford since he left his home on August 12, 2007, his car was found abandoned in a remote spot the next day and a police search uncovered his sweat shirt and car keys a short distance away.

"The Crown says the only conclusion that can be reached is that Mr Crawford is deceased," Mr Hollister-Jones said.

The jury would hear evidence that early in 2007 a Te Puke man and an associate were approached by Puata who asked them to "do a hit" on Mr Crawford. Their reward was to be a considerable sum of money.

In December that year, when talking to friends about his involvement in Mr Taikato's death, Puata admitted killing Mr Crawford, claiming Mr Taikato had been buried on top of him.

While on remand in October the following year he had told a cell-mate he had "shot the Pakeha fella", then taken him for a drive.

Referring to the events leading up to Mr Taikato's death, Mr Hollister-Jones said a man called Dobbs had driven to the Greasy Dogs' pad where he saw Aitken and Mr Taikato involved in an angry exchange.

"Aitken had a pistol pointing right at Mr Taikato, he [Taikato] had his chest puffed out, he was approaching Aitken telling him 'go on, kill me'," Mr Hollister-Jones said. Mr Dobbs had described him as being "fearless, really amped up".

An agitated Anderson had come downstairs saying it was not a convenient time to visit but he would get him some gear (methamphetamine) later.

"Dobbs says Aitken put the pistol against Mr Taikato and discharged the firearm into his body, Dobbs saw his body recoil from the shot."

Mr Hollister-Jones had earlier said there was a mutual grievance between Aitken and Mr Taikato over various "flash cars".

The trial is before Justice Joseph Williams and a jury of eight women and four men. The Crown is to call 43 witnesses and the trial is expected to last four weeks.

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Spain has been branded the most addicted country in Europe

Spain has been branded the most addicted country in Europe, with 3.1 percent of its population aged between 15 and 65 believed to be cocaine users.


According to data released by the United Nations, three out of every 100 Spaniards is a cocaine addict, a Press TV correspondent reported on Sunday.

According to the 2010 annual report from the International Narcotics Control Board, 19 percent of all European cocaine addicts live in Spain.

Shortly after the UN released its data, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba in a press conference responded by saying, “The United Nations in its report referred to data which are from the years 2007, 2008, and last year. Spain has already presented a comprehensive study with 30,000 people that demonstrated that how, in a year, cocaine consumption has decreased from 3.1 to 2.6 percent.”

The government went on to say that it will continue to work on their Action Plan Against Cocaine, focusing on educating youth regarding the dangers of this substance in order to reduce the rate.

“In my 30-year career, I have seen the situation worsen in the past decade. I have seen addiction become a true problem in our society, and so many families have been touched by it one way or another. I'm not too optimistic that things will improve in the near future,” Matilde Hernandez, a hospital doctor, told Press TV.

Part of the reason for the dramatic increase is that Spain is the primary transit point for the cocaine smuggled into the Europe from Latin America. In cargo ships and on airplanes, hidden in machine parts, or bananas, tons of cocaine arrive at Spanish ports every month.

Analysts believe Spain's high cocaine addiction rate is a reflection of the failure of the anti-drug policy of the government. DISCLAIMER:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder.

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Drug ring left tell-tale evidence in computer

Drug ring left tell-tale evidence in computer: "It was a drug trafficking ring that kept detailed accounting records, and the police were grateful for that.
At least four people who were part of a large-scale crack cocaine trafficking ring – which operated in downtown Montreal and was tied to the Hells Angels – pleaded guilty at the Montreal courthouse Thursday.
The people were arrested in 2009’s Project Machine, a Montreal police investigation that targeted the activities of Daniel Leclerc, a member of the Hells Angels Nomad chapter in Ontario.
More than 40 people were arrested in June 2009, and 27 of those were charged in an indictment along with Leclerc."

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CBC News - Health - Larger cigarette warnings coming in U.S.

CBC News - Health - Larger cigarette warnings coming in U.S.: "U.S. government is unveiling a new plan to snuff out tobacco use, including larger warning labels for cigarettes that include images of corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs and teeth.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the new efforts on Wednesday, aiming to curb an addiction responsible for about 443,000 deaths per year.
The plan is part of a law passed in June 2009 giving the FDA authority to regulate tobacco.
The new labels will be set by June and cigarette makers will have 15 months to comply."

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European Commission calls for rapid action to tackle new drugs, “legal highs” and trafficking routes

European Commission calls for rapid action to tackle new drugs, “legal highs” and trafficking routes: "Every year, 6,500 to 7,000 people die in the EU from a drug overdose. Between 25 and 30 million Europeans are estimated to have taken some type of illicit drug in the last year, including 4 million who took cocaine. There were 1,000 cocaine-related deaths.
“Drug abuse and related crimes affect the lives of millions of Europeans. Despite some encouraging progress, we need to do more to reduce the harm caused by drugs and react quickly to new substances entering the market,” said Vice-President Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner. “I call on EU governments to keep up drug prevention and treatment services in the context of the economic crisis, which could worsen the drug situation in the EU.”"

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Prescription drugs become 'new heroin' in Armstrong County - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Prescription drugs become 'new heroin' in Armstrong County - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "Gary DeComo saw it coming in 2007.
He held a program for doctors and got fliers for local pharmacies in an attempt to thwart its infiltration into Armstrong County.
'I said it in 2007 and this is 2010,' said Decomo, a district judge heavily involved in drug and alcohol awareness. 'The police are chasing everyone down they can get for heroin, but there's literally thousands of doses of pain relievers in the hands of legitimate users.'
Creating awareness of a problem that was predicted to exist hasn't stopped an increase in prescription drug use during the past few years nationally and locally. The common theme in prescription drug abuse is easy access — something law enforcement has been attacking by asking those with prescriptions to keep a close eye on their pills and patches.
It's become a 'serious problem' locally, said District Attorney Scott Andreassi.
'This is our new heroin,' he said."

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Prescription deaths mount in Tennessee: 1,600 in 3 years | tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Prescription deaths mount in Tennessee: 1,600 in 3 years | tennessean.com | The Tennessean: "Prescription drugs killed more than 1,600 Tennesseans over a three-year period, according to yet-to-be-released research conducted by the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy."

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Police: Prescription drug abuse reaches epidemic | MailTribune.com

Police: Prescription drug abuse reaches epidemic | MailTribune.com: "From cheerleaders to athletes to academic high scorers to homeless drop-outs, the numbers of teens who are stealing prescription drugs out of medicine cabinets or buying pills on the street is escalating, Law said.
'The danger of overdose is so great, especially if you are drinking as well,' Law said. 'But these kids don't understand that. They don't think it's like meth. They think these pills are safe because they came from a doctor.'
According to data collected by the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, there were 26 prescription drug deaths in Jackson County in 2009, said Medford police Deputy Chief Tim George.
Of the 26 prescription deaths, 11 are listed as accidental deaths, eight are listed as undetermined and seven are listed as suicides.
The latest teen death is a wake-up call for the community, George said.
'This is reaching epidemic proportions,' he said. 'These are the sad situations that bring it to light.'"

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British man among spate of drug related deaths in Málaga

British man among spate of drug related deaths in Málaga: "The alarm has been raised after three drug takers have died in Málaga province in just 72 hours. Two of the dead were Spanish, one British, and all were aged between 35 and 45.

The first case was the 35 year old Briton. His body was found on Saturday in Torre del Mar at his home by his flat mate. Final results from the autopsy have not yet been published, but the police think that the man had gone out the night before and had taken a mixture of cocaine and alcohol.

The second case was of a 40 year old Spaniard who was found dead in the passenger seat his car in the Carranque area of the city, Police found a syringe by his neck.

The third case was on Tuesday, when the body of a Spanish man in his 40’s was found inside his home after family members called on the fire brigade to help break the door down. The body was found on the bed."

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“secondary extraction” labs have been detected in Spain EU faces new frontiers on drug trafficking

FT.com / Brussels - EU faces new frontiers on drug trafficking: "Elaborate methods of smuggling cocaine and a record number of new unregulated drugs are challenging drug control policies in Europe, where about 1,000 cocaine-related deaths are reported a year, according to the European Union’s drug agency.
Traffickers are increasingly using exports such as clothes, plastics and fertilisers to smuggle cocaine base which is then extracted in clandestine laboratories, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction said on Wednesday.
High time to legalise marijuana - Oct-27Top Mexican trafficker captured - Aug-31Focus on gangs after Gambia cocaine raid - Jun-09A number of these “secondary extraction” labs have been detected in Spain – 25 in 2008 – together with the UK, Denmark, Ireland and Italy, the countries where cocaine use is most prevalent.
In the UK, the number of death certificates citing cocaine doubled from 161 in 2003 to 325 in 2008, according to Lisbon-based EMCDDA, which collects and analyses information for European policymakers."

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Service to remember drug deaths in Aberdeen

BBC News - Service to remember drug deaths in Aberdeen: "service to remember those who have lost their lives through drugs is due to be held in Aberdeen.
The service, now in its fifth year, will be attended by church leaders, local politicians and members of organisations working with drug users.
It is aimed at relatives and friends of those who have died through a drug-related cause.
The ecumenical service is due to be held at St Peter's Church in Justice Street from 1900 GMT."

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cocaine cost £70 a gram in 2003 but can now be found as cheaply as £40 a gram.

The figures show that three in 100 Britons aged between 16 and retirement age had used cocaine recently in 2008 compared to 2.3 per cent in 2007. In 2003, the level was two per cent.
Nearly one in six Britons aged under 34 said last year that they had tried cocaine at least once, and 6.2 per cent said they had used it over the previous 12 months. Some 6 per cent of 16-year-old children in this country have tried the drug.

In Spain, where cocaine use has been driven up by high levels of immigration from Latin America, the figure was 5.5 per cent.

The next in the European league table was Denmark, with 3.4 per cent, and then Ireland, with 3.1 per cent of people under 34 having used the drug over the previous year.
A reputable survey taken last year in bars and clubs in Manchester found that more than four out of five clubgoers had used cocaine.

Britain was also top of the league for users of ecstasy and amphetamine, and in the top four for cannabis use.

The popularity of cannabis has declined over the past seven years as users have been put off by the growing evidence of a link between it and mental illness, especially schizophrenia. Ecstasy and amphetamines have become less common as cocaine has become cheaper.

According to the Drugscope carity, cocaine cost £70 a gram in 2003 but can now be found as cheaply as £40 a gram. A gram, depending on purity, can provide ten or 20 hits or ‘lines’ for the user.

The falling price has been one of the major reasons why a drug that 30 years ago was used only by the wealthy and fashionable gradually spread through young professionals and to schoolchildren.

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Number of young Britons using cocaine shoots up 50 per cent | Mail Online

Number of young Britons using cocaine shoots up 50 per cent | Mail Online: "Men are twice as likely to die from cocaine than women
One in seven 15 to 34-year-olds have taken cocaine
Almost 400,000 coke-users aged under 25

British youngsters have become the greatest consumers of cocaine in the developed world, according to a major international study.It found that numbers of young people using the drug in this country have shot up by 50 per cent over five years.This means Britain has left other countries which face major cocaine problems – in particular the U.S. and Spain – far behind in the league table of those worst-affected."

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ten most dangerous substances were deemed to be:

ten most dangerous substances were deemed to be:

1.Heroin - popular street names include smack, skag, and junk.
2.Cocaine - often referred to as snow, flake, coke, and blow.
3.Barbiturates - popular slang names include yellow jackets, reds, blues, Amy's, and rainbows.
4.Street Methadone
5.Alcohol
6.Ketamine - a powerful hallucinogen, often referred to as Special K.
7.Benzodiazepines - a family of sedative drugs.
8.Amphetamines - known as greenies among baseball players.
9.Tobacco
10.Buprenorphine - also called bupe or subbies.
The remaining drugs that were assessed in this study ranked as follows:

1.Cannabis - includes marijuana.
2.Solvents - volatile substances that can be inhaled, such as glue, nail polish remover, paints, hair spray, and lighter fuel (gas).
3.4-MTA - is a derivative of amphetamine and has similar effects to ecstasy.
4.LSD
5.Methylphenidate - central nervous system stimulant, commonly sold as ritalin.
6.Anabolic steroids
7.GHB - short for Gamma hydroxybutyrate, a powerful central nervous system depressant, most commonly known as the date rape drug.
8.Ecstasy
9.Alkyl nitrates - group of drugs commonly referred to as poppers.
10.Khat - an amphetamine-like stimulant.

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Is Love A Drug, Scientists Ask | Article Directory Project

Is Love A Drug, Scientists Ask | Article Directory Project: "Sex is a Trap
Sex is booby-trapped for to make partners bond. According to the researchers – the more two people have sex together, the more likely they are to bond.
“We all know you can have sex without falling in love but if you have enough sex with the same person there’s a good chance you will hit the body’s booby-trap which is there to tip you head over heels into love,” reported Dr Marsden.
So having sex is an addiction which can’t be cured, because people love each other and are attracted to their life partners."

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