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Update news drug addiction

Young drug users on the rise in HCM City, Da Nang

More and more young people are turning to drug addiction in both Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang city.

Hue police raid drug dens

Some 100 policemen of Thua Thien – Hue Province on Thursday afternoon raided six illegal trading and storing points of cannabis on Duy Tan Street, Hue City, Thanh nien (Young people) newspaper reported.

 

Sharp rise in seriously ill mental patients: official

 VietNamNet Bridge – There has been a sharp year-on-year increase in the number of people suffering from serious mental illnesses, 

Communities urged to rehabilitate former addicts

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dang Thi To Nga’s family fell into destitution due to her husband’s heroin addiction.

A mother fights drug addiction with love, no reproach

 VietNamNet Bridge – To have one child, and then another, become drug addicts guarantees a life of suffering, a life of living on the edge.

Many addicts still unable to access Methadone cure

 VietNamNet Bridge – It was about 10am at the Muong Cha Commune clinic. A man entered the clinic and came out with a dosage of methadone.

Few addicts get methadone relief

 VietNamNet Bridge – Just 10 per cent of the drug addicts nationwide had received the methadone maintenance treatment so far, officials said a recent workshop.

Former sex workers fight to forge new lives

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is a scorching day like any other during this time of year in HCM City. But it is a day different from many in the last 26 years of the life of Le Lan Chi.