Drug News

METHADONE – UK

How can we trust police to peddle a drug cure? – Sunday Herald

THE METHADONE debate has gone on for 10 years. It is back on the agenda now because we are at last coming to understand that using this heroin substitute to ease addicts off their expensive and dangerous habit is not working well.

COCAINE – USA

Bad cocaine lands Italians in hospitals –United Press International

Doctors in northern Italy warned of a poisonous batch of cocaine after 16 people were hospitalized within a day of each other.

ADDICTION – UK

Addiction show adverts row – The Scotsman

A CONTROVERSIAL art show in Glasgow featuring work by the children of drug addicts was last night at the centre of a censorship row after the city council refused to screen an advert for it – even though it partly funded the event.

COCAINE – SWITZERLAND

Researchers reverse cocaine effects in mice – Swiss Info

Researchers in Geneva working with laboratory mice say they have found a way to reverse the effects of cocaine on the brain.

METH – USA

Lawmakers Warn Children of ‘Meth Mouth’ Dangers – New Examiner-EnterpriseMethamphetamine users can turn the world off with their smiles and dentists and lawmakers plan to make that message clear to the nation’s youth. 

PRESCRIPTION – USA

Durant Police Concerned About Teenagers Using Prescription Drugs – KTEN News

The deaths of two teenagers in the past two months have Durant police concerned.  It is believed the teenagers died of a prescription drug overdose.

CANNABIS – UK

Cannabis use linked to 40% rise in risk of schizophrenia – Community Care

People who smoke cannabis daily have a 200% increased risk of psychosis, according to a study of previous research into the drug published today in The Lancet journal.

METH – USA

Meth Users Risk Smiles, Bills Warn – Fort Smith Times Record

Methamphetamine users can turn the world off with their smiles, and dentists and lawmakers plan to make that message clear to the nation’s youth. 

METH – USA

Teeth Provide Hard Truths About Meth Addiction – KHBS/KHOG News

Congress is hoping that pictures of meth users’ mouths and teeth will help stop children from ever trying the drug. Experts said meth use rots teeth, in addition to the harm it does to the rest of the body.