Drug News

DRUGS – USA
Report: Drug firm distorted Paxil test results – MSNBC
GlaxoSmithKline Plc was accused on Monday of distorting clinical trial results of its antidepressant Seroxat, or Paxil, and covering up a link with suicide in teenagers.

HEROIN – USA
Bucking U.S., Afghanistan won’t spray heroin – MSNBC
Rebuffing months of U.S. pressure, President Hamid Karzai has decided Afghanistan will not implement a Colombia-style program to spray the country’s heroin-producing poppies, bowing to pressure from top Cabinet members who feared a popular backlash, officials said Thursday.

OPIUM – JAPAN
Despite Colombian government claim, opium crops persist – Mainichi Daily News
It was touted as a landmark in the U.S.-backed war on drugs: Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos took a two-foot-long machete and cut down what he said was the “last plant of opium poppy in the country.”

OPIUM – AUSTRALIA
Afghanistan won’t spray opium poppies – The Australian
Intense American pressure has failed to persuade President Karzai to start chemically spraying Afghanistan’s opium poppy crop in an attempt to cripple the heroin trade.

OPIUM – USA
Afghanistan refuses to spray opium poppies – States Man
Despite U.S. pressure, Afghan government says it won’t spray herbicide to kill heroin-producing poppies.

METH – USA
Strawberry meth seized in search – Nevada Appeal
A new kind of methamphetamine that has a strawberry flavor and bright pink coloring was seized for the first time in Carson City during a search of a Como Street apartment on Saturday, an official said.

METH – USA
Placer High video to show dangers of meth – Auburn Journal
Placer High students were caught on film smoking meth on campus Friday afternoon. Funny thing is, their teacher was the one encouraging them to do it.

METH – USA
Learning the reponsibilites of Meth Task Force responders – WWMT
Even though we’ve seen the number of meth labs decline over the last year, the problem has not been wiped out.

HEROIN – USA
Heroin drug of choice in Shelby – Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
Shelby police Capt. Lance Combs has seen too much of heroin in his town. “A lot of use, a lot of abuse, lots of overdoses and a lot of trafficking,” he said. “It runs the gamut.”