Drug News

METH – USA
Experts raise alarm over ampethamine-type stimulant abuse – Earth Times

Anti-narcotics experts raised the alarm on Wednesday over rising abuse of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATSes) in East and South-East Asia and called for closer international cooperation to solve the growing menace.

ALCOHOL – USA
Heavy Drinking Raises Blood Pressure In Older Men Regardless Of “Good” Cholesterol – Medical News Today

A large new Japanese study suggests that middle aged men who drink heavily could see their blood pressure rise, regardless of whether their levels of “good” cholesterol also go up.

METH – USA
Neighbors and deputies team up to fight meth in Tucson – KOVA

Residents are teaming up with Pima County and its sheriff’s deputies to make the Flowing Wells neighborhood meth free.

METH – USA
Meth survey shows disturbing trend – KPAX TV News

A new national survey shows that methamphetamine use among woman, minorities and teens is getting worse.

HEROIN – USA
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star – HARP Magazine

Motley Crüe’s 2001 autobiography The Dirt is still the benchmark by which chronicles of rock debauchery are measured. So what compels Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx to go beyond that tell-all and tell more?

HEROIN – UK
Britain is stoned at home and sold out in Helmand – The Guardian

The vast increase in opium poppy farming in Afghanistan is indicative of an inability to grasp a basic law of economics

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Clean out the medicine cabinet: Prescription stomach pills could be hurting you – The Cherokee Sentinel

This medication joins a long line of prescription drugs that were taken off the market due to side effects that were more harmful to the patient than the remedy.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Prescription Drug Abuse Reaching Epidemic Levels In Utah – KCPW News

Utah leads the nation in non-medical use of prescription drugs. This fact has caused many in the medical community to call abuse of prescription drugs an epidemic in the state.

ALCOHOL – UK
Call for alcohol ads watershed – Scotsman News

ALCOHOL adverts on TV should be banned before 9pm to stop children being exposed to them, a campaign group said today.

ALCOHOL – USA
Berkeley, UC police crack down on underage drinking – The Mercury News

For a fifth year, the Berkeley Police Department is using a sizable grant from the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to crack down on underage drinking and stores and eateries selling booze to minors.

OPIUM – USA
Opium business in Afghanistan must be halted – My West Texas

When we read stories of illegal drug use and abuse it pains us to think about all the lives that are broken or taken off track for the search and lure of an artificial high.

OPIUM – USA
Afghan opium production at record levels – Reuters

Afghanistan produced 93 percent of the world’s opium in 2007, up from 92 percent last year.

ALCOHOL – UK
Call for alcohol advert watershed – All About You

A campaign group has called for a ban on television adverts for alcoholic drinks before the nine o’clock watershed.