Opinion

Doctors and drug abuse

Dr Noel Blackman, a former Guyana minister of health, is soon to be sentenced in the United States for his role in providing a large number of people in that country with prescriptions for oxycodone, a drug known as an opioid, which while useful in providing pain relief, leads to addiction.

Rewriting history

The IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations), the world governing body for athletics kicked off its 2017 international season with the first meet in the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar last Friday, but the main topic of conversation was not this season’s centre piece, the 16th edition of the IAAF World Champion-ships scheduled for London, England in August.

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