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Mexico has long been a pipeline for drugs into the United States. But decades of drug trafficking has left at least 1 million Mexicans addicted to heroin, cocaine and other drugs. Addicts trying to quit are filling clinics, while cartels are fighting in northern Mexico over billion-dollar smuggling routes.
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Sometimes there is just a hint or two of addiction, that something is not quite right. It becomes far more painful if you wait till later, when you are desperate to stop and don't know how to. It is equally as painful to watch someone close sink into the degradation which accompanies full-blown addiction. On the way, everyone will have suffered increasing damage from rages, arguments, financial difficulties, social embarrassments, stress, unpredictability, accidents and injuries, and emotional and physical illnesses.
The good news is: there are solutions that work. And you do not have to reach the worst stages of addiction before you try them and reverse your situation. And best of all you can start right now, right here! »»»
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Americans Are World's Top Drug Users
 Agence France-Presse
Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS Medicine.
 UN: Opium Trade Soars in Afghanistan
 Colum Lynch
Afghanistan's emergence as the world's largest supplier of opium and heroin represents a serious setback to the U.S. policy in the region. The opium trade has soared since the U.S.-led 2001 overthrow of the Taliban, which had eradicated almost all of the country's opium poppies in 2001.
President Calderón Launches National Information Campaign Against Addictions
 Presidencia de la República
President Felipe Calderón and his wife Margarita Zavala announced the National Information Campaign for a New Life to tell all Mexicans what they can and must do to prevent children and young people from succumbing to drug addiction.
Employers Blood Testing To Stop Smokers
 Rocky Mountain News
Howard Weyers tried the "carrot" approach by giving his employees incentives and encouragement to quit smoking. But when that didn't work, he resorted to the stick. A big stick.
Western Hemisphere's Only Heroin Maintenance Program Coming to an End
 Drug War Chronicle
Every day for 15 months, Vancouver heroin addict Rob Scott Vincent, 36, went into a nondescript building on the city's Downtown Eastside where a nurse would hand him a syringe loaded with pharmaceutical grade heroin.
Top 10 Tips to Stop Smoking
 Andrea Lindsay
You know your reasons for why you want to be a non smoker. All smokers know that smoking can kill, if it was as simple as knowing that, I don’t suppose anyone would smoke.
Kabul's New Drug Crisis
 The Real Network
Afghanistan, which already faces a huge drug addiction crisis, must now confront a new challenge - addicts deported from Iran and Pakistan threatening to swamp its meagre rehabilitation resources.
Addict: Can Get Meth From 'Ice Cream Trucks'
 KCRA.com
Every day 110,000 people cross the border into the U.S. from Mexico in San Ysirdo, Calif., and anyone of them could be smuggling in illegal drugs. Right now, the federal government considers Mexico to be ground zero in the war on methamphetamine.
Prescription Drug Abuse Surging
 United Press International
Healthcare workers and dishonest patients are filling U.S. streets with potentially addictive prescription medications, officials say. Also contributing to the problem are pharmacy thefts, robberies and burglaries.
The $20 Pack
 Tim Harford
Would smokers prefer that cigarettes be expensive? Certainly, higher cigarette prices would make smokers healthier. There is plenty of evidence that smoking is very bad for you, and almost as much evidence that people smoke fewer cigarettes if they are expensive. But "healthy smokers" are not the same thing as happy smokers.
Sleeping Giant of Drug Abuse
 Claire Buckis
On the brink of suicide and feeling that her life had reeled out of her control, Carmel, a mother of three, aged in her 40s, begged her doctor for a prescription to tranquillisers. When she took one soon after, it was a revelation.
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