Drug Deaths In Russia Reached 100,000 In 2006

Speaking at a youth forum against drugs, Khvorostyan said Moscow alone has some 30,000 registered drug addicts, most of them young people.

Drug use in Russia was largely unknown in communist times, but exploded after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.

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