Drug News

PRESCRIPTION – AUSTRALIA
Prescription drug overdoses clogging services – NEWS
Melbourne paramedics attend an average of 19 overdoses a day involving pharmaceutical drugs, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

COCAINE – USA
Agents seize flavored cocaine – Sacramento Bee
In its unflavored form, cocaine is a powerful addictive stimulant, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

COCAINE – USA
Cocaine Cases Skyrocket In Eau Claire – WEAU News
Police say cocaine is causing huge problems in Eau Claire - the number of cocaine cases shot up last year.

COCAINE – COLOUMBIA
Science Magazine on Cocaine and Epidemiology – Shared Responsibility
Novel ways of measuring cocaine consumption are not only surprising in themselves but also yield eye-opening results. Here is a report by Science Magazine on two techniques that use epidemiology to determine how much cocaine is being consumed by certain communities.

METH – USA
County’s meth problem affects everyone – Salem Statesman Journal
Marion County’s meth problems aren’t going away. So it was good to hear recently that the Methamphetamine Strike Force isn’t going away either, through September 2008 at least.

DRUGS – INDIA
International Day Against Drug - 200 million people in world use drugs – Mangalorean News
About 200 million people around the world consume drugs each year, with cocaine, opium and its derivatives - including heroin - topping the list of favourites, a United Nations report said Tuesday.

OPIUM – USA
U.N.: Afghan Opium Production Up – Chicago Tribune
A U.N. report released Tuesday showed that the “runaway train of drug addiction” has slowed, with estimated levels of global use holding steady for the third year in a row. Afghanistan’s opium production, however, increased dramatically.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Missouri Teens Turning Away from Street Drugs to Prescription Drug Abuse – Earth Times
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and local Missouri experts urged parents today to take action against the latest drug abuse trend among teens: abuse of prescription drugs to get high.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
New Findings Show Half of Americans Surveyed Importing Drugs without a Prescription – Pharma Live
Concerned about a growing number of fake and counterfeit drugs entering America.