Drug News

ADDICTION – USA
Energy Drink Consumption Predicts Risky Teen Behavior – Join Together

Recent research suggests that teens and young adults who consume energy drinks may be at greater risk of a number of high-risk behaviors, such as unprotected sex, alcohol and other drug problems, and violence.

ALCOHOL – UK
Call for Establishing ‘World No Alcohol Day’ – Join Together

World No Tobacco Day has become an established rallying point for global tobacco prevention efforts, and now advocates would like to see a similar annual event aimed at alcohol use.

HEROIN – SPAIN
Heroin deaths increase – Euro Weekly News

LAST YEAR 90 people died from heroin overdoses in Barcelona and this latest figure reveals a worrying trend that heroin use is on the increase in this region as well.

METH – USA
Meth still a problem in Shawnee County – KTKA

Lithium batteries, coffee filters, starter fluid, paint thinner, cold medicine; these are almost all the things a person would need to make methamphetamine. You can pick them up in less than 30 minutes at Wal-mart for less than $30. Deputies say, that’s the trouble with meth. A little money brings a big high.

PAINKILLER – UK
Are we all addicted to painkillers? – Times Online

Step into any newsagents, petrol station or chemists and you face a sophisticated blizzard of marketing from a £500million-plus industry, pushing a fast-moving consumer product in distinctly lifestyle-friendly ways. The fact that many bestselling brands of this product - painkillers - are potentially habit forming and addictive is often forgotten in our consumer culture. Should we be worried? Well, the Australian Government certainly is, and British MPs are mulling the issue too.

METH- USA
Parents, kids learn about meth abuse – News Review Today

It only took a matter of seconds for 4-year-old Reggie to find the hidden methamphetamine and marijuana.

METH – USA
Employers learn how to watch for signs of meth, Drug use affects workers; getting help is recommended – Casa Grande Valley Newspapers

For the past three years, the National Drug Intelligence Center has identified methamphetamine as the primary drug threat in Arizona. In Pinal County, the percentage of high school students using the drug is twice as high as among students across the state.

DRUGS – USA
Signs of Drug Abuse – Trans World News

In continuing with the campaign to “Take Back Our Families and Communities From Drugs”, Narconon Drug Rehab in Georgia released more tips today for those who think they have a drug abuser in their midst, but are not sure.