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Media Alert: Monash University experts

-Media Alert Monash University has several experts available for comment on a range of topics relating to the festive ...

News Focus - Dangers of LSD consumption among children

Local authorities caught five children aged 15 and 16 in Surabaya in an inebriated state after sniffing glue on Monday ...

22nd Century receives order for 3.6 million SPECTRUM® U.S. Government research cigarettes

- 22nd Century Group, Inc. (NYSE American: XXII), a plant biotechnology company focused on tobacco harm reduction and ...

Game addiction leads to behavioral disorder: health ministry

Video game addition can lead to "behavioral disorder", according to Health Ministry`s Director General of ...

Government urged to increase number of no-smoking zones

House Speaker Bambang Soesatyo has called on the government to increase the number of smoke-free zones to protect ...

Making Indonesia free of prostitution

The government of Indonesia is committed to shutting down more red-light districts in its efforts to free the country ...

West Sumatra serious to overcome cigarette hazards

The West Sumatra Provincial Government is serious about protecting its people from the dangers of cigarettes by ...

Protecting people against dangers of cigarettes

The Indonesian government must strengthen its efforts to protect the people from the dangers of cigarettes in order to ...

Japanese consul general inaugurates drug rehab in Deliserdang

The Japanese Consul General in Medan, Takeshi Ishii, has inaugurated the Grant Aid Project for Drug Addiction ...

17 health organizations reject draft bill on tobacco

Seventeen health organizations in Indonesia have issued a joint declaration urging President Joko Widodo to reject the ...

Raising cigarette prices to reduce smoking

Raising cigarette prices is considered one of the most effective ways to prevent and reduce smoking, especially among ...

Most drugs smuggled into Indonesia come from China

Most drugs smuggled into Indonesia came from China, according to the spokesman of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), ...

Preventing migrant workers from becoming drug couriers

Last year, the South China Morning Post had reported that Hong Kongs triad was targeting Indonesian migrant workers to ...

Drugs may turn out to be the biggest ever human disaster: Minister

Drug abuse may turn out to be the biggest ever human disaster if it was not controlled and checked completely, Social ...

More signs of all-out war against drug abuse

The governments plan to upgrade the National Narcotics Agencys (BNNs) status is an indication of its all-out efforts ...