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Most drugs were permitted either universally or for individuals with a medical prescription. Many of the drug addicts in 1920s and 1930s Germany were First World War veterans who required addictive drugs for pain relief and/or medical personnel who had access to such drugs. During the Weimar era, addiction was seen as a curable disease.
Not until the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo had East Germans won more medals than their West German counterparts. Four years later, the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City hosted two separate German teams with a common flag and anthem, in which East German athletes surpassed the West German (FRG) medal count: the GDR, a country of 17 million, won nine gold ...
In 2000, the German law on narcotics (Betäubungsmittelgesetz) was changed to allow supervised injection rooms. [citation needed] In 2002, a pilot project was started in seven German cities to evaluate the effects of heroin-assisted treatment on addicts, compared to methadone-assisted treatment. In 2009, the positive results of the study led to ...
Today, the medical field still doesn’t know how well many drugs and devices work for women. Before 1993, women were rarely included in clinical trials. Today, the medical field still doesn’t ...
A German federal court on Tuesday denied two seriously ill men direct access to a lethal dose of a drug, arguing that the country's narcotics law stands in the way and that they could turn to ...
Women are at the greatest risk for opioid addiction compared to men. [34] Usually, opioid misuse in women stems from unused prescription drug hoarding, the dependence of the drugs and higher pain levels compared to men. Women are less likely to report opioid misuse in contrast to the male population. [33]
Germans were characterised as rapacious Huns during the First World War. This followed the Kaiser's Hun speech during the Boxer rebellion. [1] Stereotypes of Germans include real or imagined characteristics of the German people used by people who see the German people as a single and homogeneous group. [2] [3]
Gloede was more familiar than most about the strike. He worked for the railroad for 38 years before retiring from his job as assistant superintendent of operations for Conrail nearly a dozen years ...