Drug News

METH – IRELAND
County drug use increases dramatically – Meath Chronicle

Plans for a new drugs prevention and advisory service centre for Meath and surrounding counties should be ready by the end of the summer.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
New program focuses on prescription drug disposal – The Citizen-Journal

Sheriff George T. Lasater and Liaison Officer William D. Schneider of the Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Office announced a new program for the disposal of prescription drugs.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Abuse of prescription painkillers spurs move for online database – Ventura County Star

Pain patients understand why California’s attorney general says he needs to raise $3.5 million to stop addicts and drug dealers who use doctors to stockpile Vicodin and OxyContin.

CODEINE – USA
Australian Researchers Find Serious Side-Effect to Codeine – WCAV News

Australian researchers have found a dangerous new side-effect from using too much Codeine. Approved usage of the opiate has been for severe cough, diarrhea, mild pain, and irritable bowel syndrome. However, Australian researchers have discovered that Codeine can cause hearing impairment.

ALCOHOL – USA
Games Contribute to Youths Drinking Themselves to Death – Join Together

An analysis of federal records shows that 157 college-age individuals drank themselves to death between 1999 and 2005, and a separate analysis of news reports showed that many of the victims were extremely intoxicated.

MORPHINE – CANADA
Warning: Ratio-Morphine Tablets Recalled in Canada Due to Risk of Accidental Overdose – Market Wire

Some tablets may contain more morphine than the label indicates, exposing patients to the potential risk of accidental overdose.

DRUGS – USA
Most drug Web sites breaking federal law – San Francisco Chronicle

The online trade is stoking the rising abuse of addictive and dangerous prescription drugs, the authors and federal officials say.

ALCOHOL – UK
Alcoholism-Associated Molecular Adaptations In Brain Neurocognitive Circuits – Medical News Today

After many years of heavy drinking, alcohol produces pathological alterations in the brain. In many alcoholics these changes culminate in massive social deterioration and disorders of memory and learning.

DRUGS – AUSTRALIA
Kids find it easy to get alcohol, drugs – The Australian

MORE than 40 per cent of Year 11 students find it easy to obtain alcohol and drugs, and one in three is more interested in “sensation-seeking” than respecting accepted standards of behaviour.

ALCOHOL – USA
Rising Alcohol Abuse Seen Among Returning Veterans – Join Together

Veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars are increasingly turning to alcohol when they return home to cope with the lingering stress of their combat experiences, sometimes with tragic consequences.

DRUGS – USA
Multiple Drugs Cause Most Overdoses – Join Together