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The number of patients of addiction treatment clinics may grow 2-3 times after the law on compulsory drug abuse treatment is adopted in Russia , Russian Ministry of Health's chief alcohol and drug abuse specialist Yevgeny Bryun said on Saturday. Russia's Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov earlier said that a law on criminal liability for drug abuse in the places of public resort might be adopted in the spring of 2012. Drug addicts will have to choose either to face criminal penalty or drug abuse treatment. "I don't think it will be a very large increase, the number of patients will rise 2-3 times," Bryun said. Bryun added that the Russian drug addiction service had enough resources, to cope with an increase in the number of patients of addiction treatment clinics. "I don't see any problem here," Bryun said. "We have enough psychologists, doctors and social workers in each of the federal subjects, but these resources are c

Central China's Henan Province, a leading agricultural base , has penalized 113 people, including 77 government employees, over a chemical tainted pork scandal reported in March. Their punishments varied from jail terms to reprieved death penalty, the provincial higher people's court said in a press release Friday night. The main culprit, Liu Xiang, was sentenced to death with two years' reprieve on conviction of harming public safety, it said. Liu's clandestine workshop producing clenbuterol, a carcinogenic chemical added to pig feed to produce leaner pork, was seized in Henan's Xiangyang city on March 25, 10 days after he was prosecuted, the court said. Liu's collaborator, Xi Zhongjie, was sentenced to life, it said. Liu and Xi invested 50,000 yuan (7,845 U.S. dollars) each in clenbuterol production in 2007 and sold the chemical to pig dealers for huge profits. By March this year, they had sold more than 2,700 kg of the chemical that spread to eight provinc