Drug News

COCAINE – USA
Liverpool youngsters taking cocaine to enhance sexual pleasure – Liverpool Daily Post
The report by the Centre for Public Health at the university claims teenagers and young people are deliberately getting high on drink and drugs to enhance their sexual pleasure, and that there is an “epidemic” of recreational drug use and binge drinking.

ADDERALL – USA
More college students depending on prescription drugs to fight fatigue, cram for papers, final exams – Killeen Daily Herald News

Graduation is one of the most exciting events students have to look forward to this time of year. Before they can take the big walk in cap and gown for a diploma, they have to suffer through a rite of passage with which every student is familiar: finals week.

ADDERALL – USA
Adderall abused by college students looking for focus – Northern Star

Some students take drugs for medical needs, others for recreation. But some take them to gain an edge on school work.

DRUGS – USA
NJ Assembly addresses meds-in-water issue – Water Technology

The New Jersey Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee was scheduled to receive comments and testimony on May 12 from invited speakers regarding environmental and health implications of pharmaceutical products in New Jersey drinking water.

DRUGS – USA
Kits allow at-home drug testing – Monessen Valley Independent

Township police are making it possible for parents to test their children for drugs in the privacy of their homes.

ALCOHOL – CANADA
If stressed, men more likely than women to crave alcohol: study – CBC News

When it comes to stress, women are more likely to be depressed and anxious, while men are more apt to turn to the bottle, suggests a new study. Men who become upset are more likely to develop cravings for alcohol and develop alcohol-related disorders, say researchers at Yale University.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Bay State Worsens Prescription Drug in Drinking Water – Common Dreams

Chemicals in over-the-counter and prescription drugs as well as personal care products (PPCPs) are not completely metabolized by the human body and thus end up entering rivers and groundwater that supply our drinking water.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Clean out those medicine cabinets – Pryor Daily Times

With teenager prescription drug abuse at an all-time high, the time has come to clean out those medicine cabinets.