Drug News

DRUGS – UK
Iowa Red Ribbon Week – Raising Awareness And Support Of A Drug-free Lifestyle – Medical News Today

Every day and everywhere you go in Iowa, you see people who are in recovery from alcohol or drug abuse. You can’t tell by looking at them, but these are people whose substance abuse created problems for them professionally or personally and they decided to do something about it.

ADDICTION – CANADA
Women’s Addiction Recovery Mediation – Welland Tribune

Women’s Addiction Recovery Mediation (W. A. R. M.) is a non-profit, charitable counseling and referral service for women dealing with the effects of addiction in either themselves or a loved one.

ADDICTION – USA
A Drug Addict’s Life – Drug Addiction is Not Glamorous – Trans World News

A drug addict’s life is an unhappy one. Plagued by mental and physical cravings, their focus in life is the drug- their family becomes secondary, their children are forgotten, their jobs meaningless.

DRUGS – USA
Early Substance Use Influences Future Behavior – Join Together

The use of alcohol or other drugs before the age of 15 increases the likelihood of future adult substance dependency, contracting a sexually transmitted disease, dropping out of school or committing a crime.

ALCOHOL – AUSTRALIA
Millions of Australians want less alcohol advertising – Adelaide Now

MORE than eight million Australians want a reduction in alcohol advertising, with half saying alcohol has had a negative impact on their family, a new study has found.

DRUGS – USA
In Case You Missed It: The New York Times Takes Issue with Anti-Drug Success – Pushing Back

Unsurprisingly, the New York Times Online has taken issue with our efforts to reduce drug use in America.  On their “TierneyLab” blog, John Tierney recently gave our agency a failing grade by claiming drug use has not declined in America.

ALCOHOL – UK
£1m ad campaign targets ‘forgotten’ drinkers – Guardian

A recycling bin full of empty alcohol bottles may be a sign you are drinking too much, a UK charity warned today.

COCAINE – IRELAND
Study finds one in 20 has taken cocaine – Irish Times

ONE IN 20 Irish people and almost one in 10 young people have taken cocaine, a major all-Ireland study of the drug has found.

PAINKILLER – USA
Painkiller Abuse – A growing problem in the military – ABC local News

One of the army’s top pain specialists said the number of prescriptions have jumped by 50-percent since the war in Iraq began. And narcotic painkillers are now the most abused drugs in the military.

DRUGS – USA
Kids Face Rising Risk of Accidental Opiate Overdose – Join Together

New research suggests that the increased availability of prescription opiates like hydrocodone, oxycodone and methadone is responsible for a surge in accidental overdose deaths and injuries among children under the age of 6.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
One Prescription Opiate Can Kill A Child – News Inferno

According to a recent report from the nation’s poison control centers, prescription drug use is endangering the lives of young children who accidentally ingest powerful painkillers.