No more drugs… St. John’s Wort and ginseng are there!

By Asmaa F. Galal, Attia A. Yassen, Mai S.Saleh

Contribution participating in the INPST 2018 Science Communication Awards contest.

Could you imagine?! About 16 percent of the world’s population are drug addicts. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 230 million people use illegal drugs at least once a year. Besides, 27 million people are typical addicts with 12 million of them having disabilities and 200.000 die each year (UNODC, 2015).

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