Drug News

METH – USA
Stow considers meth database – Akron Beacon Journal

A city councilman is pushing legislation to make it easier for home buyers to know whether they are purchasing a house that once served as a meth lab.

METH – USA
State unveils anti-meth campaign – Daily Home Online

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, the state congressional delegation and all of the state’s district attorneys on Friday officially launched Zerometh, a multimedia methamphetamine awareness program that will include broadcast and print ads, billboards and a Web site using cutting edge design to deliver its message to teens and young adults.

METH – USA
Buyers can check meth background of new home before purchase –

The Floyd County Health Department has a new system for homebuyers to check if the property they’re interested in has a history as a meth lab.

ALCOHOL – UK
‘Crime soars amid 24-hour drinking’ – The Press Association

Police officers are facing thousands more alcohol-related crimes a month than they did before 24-hour licensing laws were introduced, it was reported.

COCAINE – UK
Cocaine campaign – Liverpool Daily Post

COCAINE users in Merseyside are getting younger and mixing the drug with a cocktail of alcohol and cannabis.

ALCOHOL – UK
Women drinkers to be target of ad campaign – Guardian Unlimited

Women in their thirties and forties are to be targeted in a government anti-drinking advertising campaign featuring graphic warnings that their behaviour could lead to breast cancer or liver failure.

ALCOHOL – UK
Put shame back into boozing – Times Online

Unless I have been living in a parallel universe for the past few decades, there never used to be anything remotely glamorous about alcoholism.