Drug News

METH – USA
Life After Meth – KOAM TV News

Methamphetamine is a drug running rampant in the Four States, breaking apart families and ruining lives.

ADDICTION – USA
Newly Released Narconon Website Challenges Inevitability of Relapse – e-Media Wire

Decades of producing stably drug-free lives for its graduates has prompted Narconon to launch a new website — www.drugfreelives.org — testifying that addiction need not be considered a relapsing disease. Stable recovery is possible, it presents. Even to be expected.

METHADONE – USA
Methadone deaths rise in N.C. – Asheville Citizen-Time

The problem has become particularly severe in North Carolina, where methadone overdose deaths soared from 48 in 1999 to 354 in 2006, a more than 600 percent increase, according to state records.

COCAINE – THAILAND
Cocaine overdose cases at UK hospitals increase four fold – The Thaindian

The number of drug users in Britain being admitted to hospital with cocaine overdoses is four times higher than what it was eight years ago, new figures reveal.

HEROIN – SPAIN
Heroin the main cause of death among Barcelona youngsters – Typically Spanish

A total of 90 people died from heroin overdoses in Barcelona last year, and according to Público newspaper that makes the drug the largest cause of death among the young in the city, greater than those to die in traffic accidents or in suicides.

ALCOHOL – INDIA
Oct 2nd to be ‘World No Alcohol Day’? – Times of India

Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary could soon be a dry day globally. India has officially proposed at the ongoing World Health Assembly in Geneva that October 2 be declared ‘World No Alcohol Day’.

ADDICTION – INDIA
Students taking Alzheimer’s, ADHD medicines – Herald Publications

Performance pressure is driving children to take drugs that they believe improve brain functioning during examinations.

ALCOHOl – UK
Health and beauty – Manchester Evening News

The north west has one of the biggest alcohol abuse problems in the UK, with one in three adults drinking amounts hazardous to their health.

ADDERALL – USA
Higher education – Augusta Chronicle

For some teens hoping to get an A, inspiration comes from a pill starting with the same letter — Adderall.