Drug News

PRESCRIPTION – UK
Prescription drugs: legal and lethal – Times Online

Forget heroin and cocaine. The dangerous drugs claiming the lives and minds of the stars are prescription painkillers and a new class of happy pills that doctors are handing out by the million

ALCOHOL – UK
Women drinkers to be target of ad campaign – Observer

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
Drink sends 1,000 children a year to hospital – Telegraph

More than 1,000 children under the age of 14 are being admitted to hospital every year as a result of binge drinking, new figures show.

RITALIN – NERTHLANDS
Ritalin abuse on campus – Africa News

Medical students are apparently abusing Ritalin to help them cope with the vast amount of work that they need to study. Ritalin, with the street name of Kibbles and Bits or Pineapple, is normally prescribed to children who suffer from attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

ALCOHOL – AUSTRALIA
Families of drug abusers need help: ANCD – The Age

The alarming report shows about one tenth of teenagers have abused alcohol in the past week, while 67,000 high school students have taken amphetamines in the last year.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Experts Say Prescription Drug Use On Rise – KETV News

One in five teenagers have reported using prescription drugs illegally, national statistics show. The local number is lower, according to the advocacy group PRIDE-Omaha, but the numbers are rising.

ADDICITON – UK
Musical brings home truth about drug addiction – Crewe Guardian

FORMER drug addicts will be revealing the true horrors and trauma of dependence in a special event in Crewe next week. Hard-hitting musical The Journey will be staged by Teen-Challenge UK at the New Life Community Church at Fuller Driver on Tuesday evening.

ADDICTION – USA
Addiction painting helps attract artists – Frederick News Post

A few years ago, Johnsville artist Margaret Dowell realized she could no longer communicate with a friend who was addicted to drugs. So Dowell turned to her art, and that took her to Joan Jenkins, a Frederick model she worked with in the past.