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Maldives: Drug Dependence Problem

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 @ 15:48 UTC

by Rezwan

Countries:: Maldives
Topics:: Health, Law
Languages:: English

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Les Maldives: Le problème de pharmacodépendance...

Mohamed Nasheed discusses the problem of drug abuse and drug dependency in Maldives and ways to tackle this. It is estimated that almost 10% of the total 300,000 population in Maldives take drugs.

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