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05/17/14 5:58 AM

#222626 RE: fuagf #222625

Is Saudi Arabia losing the battle to combat substance abuse?

Alastair Sloan
Friday, 28 March 2014 17:19

There's a story in the medical journal Emergency Physicians International, in which a Saudi doctor finds a male patient convulsing on the floor of his ward, unable to talk. Suspecting the young man may be showing early signs of a heart attack, he bundles him into a treatment room. A nurse whips the cubicle curtain closed, leaving his family crying outside. The young man pulls the doctor close - "Don't tell my parents, but I've taken amphetamines."

Continued: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/10579-is-saudi-arabia-losing-the-battle-to-combat-substance-abuse

.. the death penalty looks on there, too .. i guess poverty and unemployment is part of the problem, as it is in Iran ..





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01/21/16 11:56 PM

#243152 RE: fuagf #222625

Philippines Has The Highest Use of Shabu in the World

"Breaking bad in Tehran: how Iran got a taste for crystal meth"



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