Drug News

Prescription Drug Addiction – USA
‘Grease’ star Jeff Conaway wants to die at home, planning Viking funeral, says girfriend Vikki Lizzi – NYDailyNews.com

Jeff Conaway can’t break his addiction to prescription drugs and now says he wants to die at home.

Prescription Drug Abuse – USA
Sheriffs push to make drug database mandatory – MarionStar.com

Ohio’s sheriffs have teamed with a state board to draft legislation to coerce doctors into using a program designed to track “doctor-shopping.”

Drug Abuse – Scotland
Drug use falling in Scotland.. but cocaine keeps firm grip – DailyRecord.co.uk

THE number of Scots using cocaine has stayed the same despite overall drug use declining, according to a new study.

Meth Arrest – USA
Rock salt packaged as meth in Newport drug bust – KGW-TV

NEWPORT, Ore. — Deputies in Lincoln County said packaged rock salt was going to be passed off as methamphetamine as part of a drug deal in Newport.

Prescription Drug Overdose Deaths – USA
Prescription Drug Overdose Deaths on the Rise – Ezine @rticles

Increasing steadily from the 1990s, the largest killers were the narcotic drugs, prescription narcotic pain killers, cocaine and heroin. These drugs accounted for nearly half of the deaths in this particular study. Poisoning deaths, of which drug poisoning accounts for about 95%, now run behind only auto accidents as the leading cause of accidental injury death in the US.

Meth – USA
‘One-pot’ method fuels record year for meth incidents in ’09 – KALAMAZOO NEWS

Four years ago, it was a drug that took hours to make in elaborate labs hidden in basements, apartments and abandoned buildings. Now, in Southwest Michigan, methamphetamine has morphed into an even more prolific drug made in as little as 30 minutes in a plastic soda bottle.  And those cooking the meth have become bolder — setting up shop in the back seats of cars and in underground caves, even bringing ingredients into a patient room at a city hospital.