Drug News

HEROIN – USA
Heroin use up in suburban Detroit high schools – Examiner

Heroin is one of the deadliest drugs. Unfortunately, it is making a comeback in the metro Detroit area schools, especially in suburbs where you might least expect it.

ADDICTION – USA
Addiction Treatment Facility in Malibu California – Trans World News

Cliffside’s addiction treatment programs are designed with an explicit emphasis on empowering clients to help themselves. Cliffside’s counselors and therapists won’t do the hard work for you. They will, however, give you the skills and support you need to do it on your own terms. Given the nature of the healing process, you could never ask for anything more than that.

DRUGS – USA
‘Study Drugs’: The Real Effects – Trinity Tripod

These drugs fall into the Schedule II narcotics, which means they are potentially abused. They are also sympathomimetic, meaning they produce similar affects to adrenaline, which acts in the sympathetic nervous system.

ALCOHOL – USA
Each school system must comply with a Zero Tolerance Policy on alcohol – Walker County Messenger
A Zero Tolerance Policy means no weapons, drugs or alcohol on school property any time; this includes someone who has been drinking. This policy refers to adults as well as students.

ALCOHOL – USA
UW Health officials tackle alcohol abuse – Green Bay Press Gazette

Robert Golden, dean of the University of Wisconsin’s School of Public Health, said the state’s alcohol problem has an economic cost to society, which burdens the public at a time when the economy is troubled.

ALCOHOL – AUSTRALIA
Alcohol ban for novice drivers in road safety crackdown – Courier Mail

LAWS banning young drivers from consuming any alcohol before they get behind the wheel will no longer be age-orientated.

ALCOHOL – AUSTRALIA
$20m ad campaign aims to confront teens on drinking – The Age

The Federal Government’s $20 million anti-binge drinking ad campaign will hit TV screens on November 23, nine months after it was announced as the centrepiece of a national strategy to tackle the alcohol “epidemic”.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Prescription pill deaths soar – Seattle Post Intelligencer

More people are dying from prescription painkillers than ever before in a national epidemic that’s eclipsing past drug scourges, including heroin overdoses in the ’70s and crack cocaine deaths in the early ’90s.