Drug News

ALCOHOL – USA
U-Choose receives $300,000 to raise alcohol awareness – University Chronicle

SCSU has been chosen to receive a grant for nearly $300,000 from the United States Department of Education. After going through a competitive process, SCSU was one of 20 schools across the nation to receive this grant intended to increase awareness of high-risk alcohol consumption.

ALCOHOL – USA
Narconon Arrowhead Provides Alcohol Rehab for Chicago Residents – Trans World News

Each year in Illinois, hundreds of people die needlessly as the result of driving after drinking. Hundreds more are seriously injured or permanently disabled, and millions of dollars of property damage occur indicating an urgent need for alcohol education and effective alcohol rehabilitation.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Prescription drug abuse on the rise in Ind. – Indianapolis Star

The latest drug abuse threat in Indiana may be coming straight from your medicine cabinet, a report released today found.

ALCOHOL – USA
Of Russians Dying at 15-54, Study Says Alcohol Kills Over Half – Slashdot

A new study in Russia has shown that half of all deaths in the country between the ages of 15-54 are alcohol related. The study showed that the mortality rate of Russian people in that age group is five times higher for men and three times higher for women than in Western Europe.

ALCOHOL – UK
People with cancer caused by alcohol ‘could fill Wimbledon’s Centre Court’ – Telegraph

More people are diagnosed with cancer caused by alcohol each year than can fit in Wimbledon’s Centre Court, an expert has warned.

DRUGS – UK
Prevention-Smart Parents – Mentor Foundation

Welcome to prevention-smart parents, an online learning aid offering parents and carers information about how to help prevent children from using and abusing drugs.

ALCOHOL – USA
Stemming the Rise in Global Alcohol-Related Deaths – Time

One in 25 deaths around the world is caused by alcohol consumption, and booze is now as damaging to global health as tobacco was a decade ago, according to a new study in the British medical journal the Lancet.

ALCOHOL – U
1 in 25 Global Deaths Linked to Alcohol – Addiction Inbox

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto reported in Lancet that 3.8 % of global deaths could be attributed to alcohol. In Europe, the report stated, the rate of premature death from alcohol was 1 in 10 during 2004, the year studied.

COCAINE – UK
Hundreds of under-16s in Northern Ireland have snorted cocaine – Belfast Telegraph

Hundreds of children across Northern Ireland have tried the potentially deadly drug cocaine before they are 16-years-old, a survey has revealed today.