Drug News

COCAINE – USA
Looking for Germs and Cocaine? Check Your Money – Hawaii Reporter

The legal tender in your pocket or purse definitely carries some germs and most likely also has some cocaine.

COCAINE – USA
Cocaine Is Apparently Getting More Prevalent – KFDA News

Cocaine use is making a comeback on the college scene, according to local authorities. And the reason why has a lot to do with methamphetamine.

CANNABIS – UK
Cannabis anything but a soft option – Sheffield Telegraph

WHY do the so-called experts keep banging on about the link between cannabis and schizophrenia as though that’s the only thing we need to worry about? What about the link between cannabis and crime? Or cannabis and paranoia? Or cannabis and a collapsed lung? How about cannabis and road accidents?

MARIJUANA – CANADA
Marijuana popular among educated, middle-class Canadians: study – Canada.com

A variety of educated, middle-class Canadians are “making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana” to relax or focus on leisure activities, say researchers behind a new study spotlighting pot smoking behind the nation’s picket fences.

MARIJUANA – USA
Marijuana may up heart attack, stroke risk – MSNBC News

Heavy marijuana use can boost blood levels of a particular protein, perhaps raising a person’s risk of a heart attack or stroke, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday.

ADDICTION – USA
Juvenile Drug Court seeks to prevent addiction – Houma Courier

Drugs and alcohol are all around today’s children, whether on their street corner, inside their school’s hallways or parents’ pantry.

DRUGS – CANADA
Police warn of ‘trickling effect’ of newer drugs – The Western Star

Field workers of Youth, Child and Family Services received a lesson on street drugs Thursday to not only help protect young people, but also themselves.
DRUGS – USA
The other kind of drug abuse – Scotts Valley Banner

When mention is made of teen drug use, substances like marijuana, ecstasy and methamphetamine are often what come to mind. But the other drugs that are not discussed enough are those found in your home, within easy reach of young people.

DRUGS – USA
Alarm in Bay over ‘horrific increase‘ in medicine abuse – The Herald

THE number of people abusing over-the-counter and prescription medicines – most of whom are women – has more than doubled in Port Elizabeth since the beginning of the year.

ADDICTION – USA
A New Kind of Addiction – Campus Progress

While recreational drug use has always been part of the stereotypical campus life, our generation has been turning toward prescription drugs as a way to get high. In 2007, approximately 6.4 million Americans were reported as taking prescription drugs for non-medical purposes.