DRUGS: APPROVAL OF FINI BILL POSSIBLE BY END OF THIS TERM
(AGI) - Palermo, Italy, Dec. 5 - "The presence here of the justice minister is a reminder of what drug addiction can lead to: prison, despair and sentences. No wonder that about 25 pct of the about 60,000 prisoners, that is some 17,000, are drug addicts.

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