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Serie A Mega Accumulator

14:00 - Atalanta Over 2.5 Team Goals vs Pescara *
14:00 - Fiorentina To Win at Crotone
14:00 - Cheivo To Win at Bologna
14:00 - Juventus To Win at Sampdoria
14:00 - Lazio To Win at Cagliari
17:00 - Udinese To Win vs Palermo
19:45 - Roma Over 2.5 Team Goals vs Sassuolo *

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14:15 - Tottenham To Win vs Southampton
15:15 - Atletico Madrid To Win vs Sevilla
16:00 - St Etienne To Win at Dijon
16:00 - Midtjylland To Win vs Nordsjaelland
16:00 - Besiktas To Win at Antalyaspo
  

Both Teams To Score

14:00 - Caen vs Monaco
14:30 - Mainz vs Schalke
16:30 - Man City vs Liverpool
16:30 - Borussia Monchengladbach vs Bayern Munich
17:30 - Deportivo La Coruna vs Celta Vigo

  

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14:00 - Monaco at Caen
14:15 - Tottenham vs Southampton
15:30 - Salzburg vs Austria Wien

  All Games Over 2.5 Match Goals 

13:30 - Excelsior vs Ajax 14:00 - Sampdoria vs Juventus 14:00 - Atalanta vs Pescara 16:30 - Man City vs Liverpool
16:30 - Borussia Monchengladbach vs Bayern Munich
18:00 - FC Porto vs Vitoria Setubal

M7 REACTS ON RAMPANT BODA-BODA KILLINGS IN UGANDA

President Museveni has condemned the killing of the Assistant Inspector General of Police Andrew Felix Kaweesi by gunmen he described as thugs riding on motorcycles.

As a consequence of these repeated murders in the city and other towns, the President has directed the immediate installation of cameras in all major towns of Uganda and along the highways. 
“We have been planning to do this project for some time but we have been postponing it on account of other priorities like the roads and electricity. Since, however, these thugs think they can use this remaining gap in our otherwise robust security frame-work, I have decided and directed the Minister of Finance to work with Police to immediately close this gap,” said Mr Museveni is a statement sent to media houses by his press secretary Linda Nabusayi.
Mr Museveni further noted that the security personnel and all citizens should be vigilant and on the lookout for these “thugs who have made it a habit to use motorcycles to kill people.”
“Remember the incidents of Joan Kagezi, Major Kiggundu (Mohammad) and a number of Sheikhs; they were killed in the same manner. If you notice such characters and especially if they are trailing a person with armed guards, you should take prompt action and challenge them,” added Mr Museveni.

A.I.G.P.ANDREW FELIX KAWEESI SHOT DEAD NEAR HIS HOME IN KAMPALA

Uganda Police Spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi has been shot dead.

Assistant Inspector-General Kaweesi and two other police officers were killed on Friday by unknown assailants about 100 metres from his home in Kulambiro, Nakawa Division, Kampala.

"He was shot dead this morning as he was leaving his home coming to work," Inspector-General of Police Kale Kayihura said on Friday.

"Kaweesi had two police officers guarding him who were also killed. The motive is yet to be established," he added.

A large crowd of local residents gathered at the scene where the officers' dead bodies slumped inside a black vehicle, blood pooling under shattered glass alongside the car.

The bodies were later taken away.

A local resident described seeing four men on two motorcycles attack the car the police officers were travelling in at around 9.30 am as they left for work.

"Two motorbike riders and two men with guns fired at the car. They shot very rapidly with guns that looked like AK47s," said Mohammad, a motorcycle rider who lives and works in the area.

"The motorbikes came from behind as the car was leaving Kaweesi's house. The car driver tried to increase speed but they drove past the car and shot into it," said the 30-year-old man who declined to give his surname.

"The motorbikes were new and the shooters looked professional. They weren't wearing masks but I didn't see their faces because I ran for cover."

Local Mayor Charles Sserunjogi said he heard "a hail of bullets— many shots— from my house nearby".

He said Kaweesi had lived in the neighbourhood of Kulambiro for about 10 years.

"I don't believe what I'm seeing right now. I knew Kaweesi well and met with him about a week and a half ago to discuss tarmacking the road he was shot on."

Kaweesi rose to prominence as he spearheaded the police response to widespread opposition party protests following a controversial 2011 presidential election.

After a stint as commander of Kampala Metropolitan Police, he was appointed director of operations and then head of human resources before assuming the role of main police spokesman in August 2016.

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He appeared regularly on television talk shows, his most recent appearance being Thursday night on NTV, one of the major private channels in the country.

Kaweesi's killing resembles the assassinations of other high profile legal and military personnel.

In March 2015, Joan Kagezi, a senior public prosecutor, was shot in the street and the assailant escaped with an accomplice on a motorcycle.

In November last year Ugandan army officer, major Sulaiman Kiggundu, former Allied Democratic Forces rebel, was shot in his car by gunmen travelling on two motorcycles.

Both crimes remain unsolved.

Unknown gunmen shot Kaweesi, his bodyguard Kenneth Erau and the driver Godfrey Wamewo as they left his home to work in his official car registration number UP 4778.
They were killed in about 100 meters from his gate.
The Inspector General of Police Gen. Kale Kayihura has arrived at the scene and investigations into the heinous act are on-going.
The public is mourning the death of Kaweesi. His neighbours have described him as a good citizen and have called for expedient investigations.
- See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1448832/police-chief-felix-kaweesi-shot-dead#sthash.nUnzar7w.dpuf

DRUGS AND DRUG ABUSE IN UGANDA 

1.DRUGS (a)What is a drug?
The ancient Greeks believed drugs to be both poison and medicine. In modern society, a drug is whatever is ingested to treat any medical or psychological condition. Often what determines whether a substance is a drug is its manner of use. For example, alcohol is a beverage but it may be considered a drug if it is used for relaxation or to remove inhibitions. Similarly, it is used as a drug if it is taken to stimulate appetite.
(b)Clinical definition of a drug
A drug is a therapeutic agent; any substance other than food, used in the prevention, diagnosis, alleviation, treatment or cure of disease in man or animals.
(c)General definition of a drug
A drug is a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of a physiological system such as the human body.
(d)Popular definition of a drug
The term drug refers mainly to chemical or plant-derived substances that affect psychological, behavioral or physical functions and lead to varying degrees of dependence or addiction
2.DRUG ABUSE
(a) Drug abuse  also known as substance abuse, is a patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others, and is a form of substance-related disorder.
(b)Widely differing definitions of drug abuse are used in public health, medical and criminal justice contexts. In some cases criminal or anti-social behavior occurs when the person is under the influence of a drug, and long term personality changes in individuals may occur as well.
(c)Drugs most often associated with this term include: alcohol, barbiturates ,
benzodiazepines , cannabis, cocaine,
methaqualone, opioids and substituted amphetamines .
(d)In 2010 about 5% of people (230 million) used an illicit substance. Of these 27 million have high-risk drug use otherwise known as recurrent drug use causing harm to their health, psychological problems, or social problems or puts them at risk of those dangers.
(e) In 2013 drug use disorders resulted in 127,000 deaths up from 53,000 in 1990.
(f)The highest number of deaths are from opioid use disorders at 51,000.
(g)Cocaine use disorder resulted in 4,300 deaths and amphetamine use disorder resulted in 3,800 deaths.
(h) Alcohol use disorders resulted in an additional 139,000 deaths.

3.DRUG ABUSE IN UGANDA
 4. (a) Being a developing country Uganda is   facing the same challenges as those faced by other developing countries world wide. Drug abuse is a public health problem that is increasingly destroying the lives of many, mostly young, people in Uganda.
(b)Authorities say drug traffickers consider the country a good transit route due to the weak laws on drugs and poorly skilled anti-narcotics police officers.
(c)The commonly abused drugs in Uganda inlude :
(i)Khati /Mira/Mairungi
(ii)Kuba /Tobacco
(iii)Petro sniffing
(iv)Alcohol (mostly locally brewed)
(v)Marijuana /Canabis/Banji/Njaga
(d)Due to increased drug trafficking through Uganda, more hard drugs like cocaine and heroine are becoming more available to those who can afford them. This situation has served to compound the drug abuse and addiction situation among Uganda's youth.
(e)Butabika hospital, Uganda's only psychiatric referral hospital, is reported to have more than 500 patients with drug related mental problems and the number keeps increasing.
(f)The increased numbers of patients developing mental illnesses related to drug and alcohol abuse point to the severity of the drug abuse problem.
(g)In Uganda, a country of more than 32 million people, alcohol dependence is among the main causes of psychiatric morbidity (Ministry of Health in Uganda, 2005 ). (h)Historically, alcoholic beverages such as beer have often been used to bind different Ugandan cultures together and during celebrations of important events such as marriages (Wolf, Busza, Bufumbo, & Witworth, 2006 ).
(i)Uganda not only lacks a clear national alcohol policy, but has weak and poorly enforced laws, thereby providing a fertile ground for an increase in the availability and accessibility of alcohol (Uganda Youth Development Link, 2008 ).
(j) Many households are involved in informal alcohol production for income purposes, resulting in alcohol being easily available at the household level (Holmila, Makela, & Osterberg, 2011 ).
(k)Statistics from Kiswa Primary Health Centre in Kampala indicate that 10% out of 17% of adult male patients aged between 35 to 44 years screened for alcohol-related problems had a higher possibility of being diagnosed with alcohol dependence (Kullgren, Alibusa, & Birabwa-Oketcho, 2009 ).
(l)Other studies also found a high rate of alcohol dependence among men and among older populations (Tumwesigye & Kasirye, 2005 ).
(m)In northern Uganda, among the internally displaced people due to war, alcohol dependence is known to be twice as prevalent among adult males (10%) as among women (5%; Roberts, Ocala, Browne, Oyok, & Sondrorp, 2011 ).
(n)The only government-owned alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in the country is at Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital located about 10 km southeast of Kampala City. It is the second largest hospital in Uganda, with a bed capacity of 900. The hospital provides free comprehensive treatment and patient care, community mental health, support supervision to upcountry health facilities, teaching, management of patients with alcohol and psychoactive substance abuse, psycho-trauma, and youth and adolescent psychiatric service.
(o)The Alcohol and Drug Unit (ADU) receives and rehabilitates patients with alcohol and other drug-related problems that do not have a co-occurring mental health illness. (p)Hospital records indicate that in the month of December 2010, 568 patients (543 male, 25 female) were seen, and in January 2011, 573 patients (562 male, 25 female) were seen by the ADU. This number included both inpatients who were admitted to the unit and outpatients who were seen at the outpatient clinic and reflects the low proportion of women in treatment.
Using the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, which helps to identify alcohol dependence and some specific consequences of harmful drinking (Babor, Higgins-Biddle, Saunders, & Monteiro, 2001)

 4.CAUSES OF DRUG ABUSE
 There are a number of cause to drug abuse and these may include;  (a)Depression
 Drug abuse is sometimes caused by depression, the victim may have personal or family  problems such as loss of job, devorce, loss of valuable property which may lead to stress and the victim may resort to drinking alcohol and smoking which will result into drug abuse
(b)Family background
If the victim is from a family or background where alcohol is socially acceptable or born to parents with a history of drug abuse like alcoholism then that person is more likely to adopt the character of abusin drugs.
(c) Peer pressure
Commonly ammong the youth if the victim peers abuse drugs, they might influence him too to do the same
(d)Curiosity
Young people are always curious about life, some may want to try out and they endup being addicted hence abusing drugs
(d) Media/social  Influence
Some young people are influenced by media programming, what they hear and see on tv and radio, if victims role model portrayed a lifestyle of drug abuse, thw victim may be influenced to live the same lifestyle.
(f))Addiction /Habbit
To some it starts as a small habbit of drinking one bottle or smoking one stick of cigarettes which may turn into an addiction and abuae of drugs
(g)Cultural practices
In  some cultures its a must for  people to take alcohol 8during  cerebrations and events in such cases some people will abuse drugs.
(h).Government plolicy
Due to weaker laws on drug traffers and lack pf a clear government policy on drugs and drug abuse its very easy for young people to access drugs hence abusing them.

5. GENERAL EFFECTS OF DRUG ABUSE
(a)Crime
At this level of saturation, the entire community feels the impact of an addiction. Whether it’s petty theft or involuntary manslaughter due to driving under the influence, drug abuse takes a real toll.
(b)Lost Labor
Beyond just crime, the workplace suffers with decreased productivity, increased sick time, and frequent firings.
(c)Healthcare
Health care suffers as physical health declines, or a person has disproportionately costly health needs due to overdose or drug-related illness.such illness may include cancer and lungs related infections.
(d)Social Cost
Then there’s the social cost of chronic drug abuse that takes the form of housing insecurity, need for government assistance, or intervention by Child Protective Services.
(e)Loss of lives
If not treated well drug abuse may lead to death of the victim

5.EFFECTS OF DRUG ABUSE TO THE ECONOMY

(a)Low production
 Decline  in labor which will result in low priduction or un productiveness hence causing the government to loose alot of money
 (b)Costs in drug enforcement
Alot of money is lost each year in fighting drug trafficking and equipping and training drug enforcement personel
 (c ). Costs in treating and caring for the victims
Alot of money is spent each year on treatment and caring for the victims of drug abuse and related illnes (d)Costs of crime and investigations
The government spends alot of money is arresting criminals and in investigating drug related crimes.