In Sierra Leone, Gender Minister Urges Stakeholders to Tackle Drug Abuse

In Sierra Leone, Gender Minister Urges Stakeholders to Tackle Drug Abuse
The Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs Moijue Kaikai has made a clarion call to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) working in the health sector to join hands to eradicate drug …
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Purchase College volleyball player finds support in gender transition
… what Taylor did, there would have been a much darker result. “If this had happened to them, if they were born in the wrong body, I think there would have been a very different outcome,” she said. “Possibly drug addiction or alcoholism or suicide of …
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1 in 4 Youths with Assault Injury Owns a Gun
Male gender, with an adjusted odds ratio of 2.76; Higher socioeconomic status, with 51% higher aOR for those not receiving public assistance; Illicit drug use, with an aOR of 1.63; Retaliatory attitudes, with an aOR elevated by 58%; A serious fight …
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18 US women died every day from prescription drug abuse in 2010, feds say
The CDC could not produce data by gender, or that attributed deaths to prescription drug abuse in New Jersey, but 1,131 New Jerseyans died from illegal drug and prescription drug overdoses combined from 2009 to 2010. In 2011 alone, 1,008 people died in …
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