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DRUG CONTROL IN 2009
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 01:01 PM
More than 80,000 people die in Russia every year of drug overdoses and drug-related illness, a senior Russian anti-drug official says.
Drugs kill 80,000 Russians annually
70% of Russian drug-takers are under the age of 30.
More than 80,000 people die in Russia every year of drug overdoses and drug-related illness, a senior Russian anti-drug official says.
About 70,000 Russians die annually from diseases linked to drug addiction, and another 10,000 die of overdose.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized Russia's failure to modernize its rehabilitation schemes and said these failures put drug users at increased risk of drug-related death and illness.
Russia is situated in a drugs belt. Heroin comes from the south and synthetic drugs from the West. Drug production within the country is also on the rise.
A total of 350,000 drug addicts were registered in the country at the end of 2006, and some six million Russians have reportedly used drugs. Some 70 percent of people who admitted to taking drugs are under the age of 30
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