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Narcotic Drug Use Should Be Treated As Illness, U.N. Drug Office Director Says
"Prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, reintegration and health have to be recognized as key elements in our strategy" to fight drug demand, supply and trafficking, U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Yuri Fedotov said Monday at the opening session of the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, United Press International reports. Fedotov added, "Overall, our work on the treatment side must be considered as part of the normal clinical work undertaken when responding to any other disease in the health system," according to UPI (3/12). "He called on countries to recognize that drug dependence, which claims some 250,000 lives annually, is an illness," the U.N. News Centre writes (3/12).
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