Drug News

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Prescription Drug Overdose Deaths In Utah Higher Than Auto Deaths – KUTV News

Prescription drug overdoses cause more deaths in Utah than do automobile accidents. The death toll continues to rise every year and now the Department of Health wants to launch a new campaign to prevent more deaths.

METH – USA
May is Meth Prevention Month – ZWire

Partners for Meth Prevention was formed in 2004 when two separate coalitions working on ways to prevent meth use and abuse joined forces. Initially comprised of eight nonprofit organizations from Pottawattamie County and Council Bluffs, the group has grown to 33 organizations in both Iowa and Nebraska.

METH – CANADA
Youngsters learn about dangers of crystal meth – Nanaimo Daily News

Mark and Ruth McLaughlin have toured the province for several years, talking to more than 25,000 students about the devastation caused by crystal methamphetamine.

PAINKILLERS – USA
Police say painkillers at middle school were stolen from medicine cabinet – NBC News

Hydrocodone is a prescription-strength painkiller that can be addictive. Police believe one of the students stole the drugs from his parents’ medicine cabinet.

ALCOHOL – AUSTRALIA
Calls for binge warnings on alcohol packaging – ABC Online

The Public Health Association (PHA) says warnings about the dangers of binge drinking should be pasted on all forms of packaged alcoholic drinks.

ALCOHOL – INDIA
Alcohol in India at a new high – The Hindu

India is one of the largest producers of alcohol in the world and there has been a steady increase in its production over the last 15 years, according to new statistics.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Health officials should take lead in battling drug abuse – Lancaster Eagle-Gazette

ONE of the easiest ways for young people in Fairfield County to get high isn’t by going to a drug dealer. It is right in their own home - their parent’s medicine cabinets. It also comes from their friend’s parents and grandparent’s cabinets. It is through stealing prescription drugs.

ALCOHOL – USA
Brewers Urged to Stop Marketing Beer Shirts to Young Girls – Join Together

The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) urged Miller Brewing Co., Foster’s, and Diageo, the parent company of Guinness, to stop allowing logos for those beers to be used on tee shirts sold at Forever 21, a retailer popular with teenage girls.