Drug News

METH – USA
Anti-meth drive aimed at Indian youth – The Durango Herald
Indian leaders unveiled the first anti-methamphetamine ad campaign targeted at natives on Wednesday. The ads will start appearing in print and on radio in January.

ALCOHOL – USA
New poll suggests Americans believe drugs and alcohol are mostly to blame for homelessness – WLNS News

More than eight in 10 people surveyed believe abuse of alcohol and drugs is the major cause of homelessness.

ALCOHOL – UK
Children admit to alcohol abuse – BBC News
One in seven 12 to 15-year-olds has tried illegal drugs and a fifth have been drunk, the Ofsted research on lifestyle, habits and concerns shows.

ALCOHOL – UK
Warn your children: alcohol is a killer – The Telegraph

Primary school pupils are learning to multiply by reckoning up how many alcopops they need for a weekend, and to divide by working out how many cans of lager they can buy with their pocket money.

MARIJUANA – USA
Chem Lab: Fun Facts about Sweat-Absorbing Drug Test Patches and Marijuana – Wired News

Although the somewhat Orwellian products have been on the market for years, Marilyn A. Huestis and her colleagues at the National Institute on Drug Abuse have recently evaluated them as a means to continuously monitor potheads.

ADDICTION – CANADA
Amino-acid therapy claims massive success in treating drug addiction – Georgia Straight
In 2002, Gold had been practising naturopathic medicine for 15 years. When her son died, she focused all her energy on researching addiction and eventually found something called amino-acid therapy.

ADDICTION – BANGLADESH
Call to save society from drug addiction – The New Nation

Speakers at a colloquium titled “Say No To Drug” on Sunday urged all to save the society from the clutch of the deadly drugs.