Drug News

HEROIN – USA
Cops say they’ve busted huge Park Slope heroin ring – BrooklynPapers.com

Federal investigators say that several “brands” of Heroin like this one called “Cream,” were readily available on the streets of Park Slope. The brownstone neighborhood is slowly getting a reputation as a one-stop shopping destination for drug buyers.

COCAINE – USA
Officials push for stiffer penalties for cocaine possession – WLBZ-TV

“In the city of Portland, cocaine is the drug that is creating the most trouble, we have many stories of how the cocaine has ravaged communities, neighborhoods and families. This law is a policy statement that the state of Maine does not condone drug use,” explained Roy McKinney, director of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

DRUG ADDICTION – USA
Ex-Drug Addict: I’m Forever Grateful to David Wilkerson – Christian Post

“The gang members became drug addicts. The same young men we knew as gang members, we started to know them as drug addicts,” explained Wilkerson, who still directs Teen Challenge Brooklyn.

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Meth lab found in Loup City – Grand Island Independent

LOUP CITY — A 48-year-old Loup City man was arrested Tuesday when the components of a methamphetamine lab were found in downtown Loup City. Jeffrey Arnold was arrested on felony charges.

ALCOHOL – USA
Now is time to talk to teens about alcohol – Marietta Times

Youth who begin drinking before age 15 are 5 times more likely to develop alcohol dependency or abuse alcohol later in life. When drinking is delayed until 21, a person’s risk of serious alcohol problems is reduced by 70%.

ALCOHOL – AUSTRALIA
Territory doctors tackle alcohol abuse debate – ABC Online

We get lots of people who suffer injuries as a result of alcohol related violence but we also see the effects of long term alcohol use and very young people with chronic illness of many forms relating to alcohol from chronic brain injuries, from recurrent infections which are likely worsened by alcohol, chronic liver disease, acute pancreatitis.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Prescription drug drop-off points being set up throughout county – The Flint Journal

The drugs eventually will be incinerated by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. With a rise in opiate abuse in the area and after a string of fatal overdoses, preventing prescription drug abuse is the major motivation for the drug take-back.

DRUG ADDICTION – USA
Police investigation leads to major bust – StarPhoenix

In total, 53 grams of cocaine, five pounds of marijuana, numerous prescription pills, a small amount of ecstasy, a large amount of cash and a weapon were seized, along with three vehicles. “We’re sending a clear message to those who choose to deal drugs. It is unacceptable to the good people that choose to live, work and raise their families in our part of the world. This is just the start.”

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Doctor labeled ”candy man” – TheDay

Drug addicts called Dr. Scott W. Houghton “the candy man” because he readily wrote out prescriptions for the controlled substances they sought.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – CANADA
Addicts getting desperate – TheChronicleHerald

KENTVILLE — Members of the group fighting drug addiction in the Annapolis Valley are warning of a possible rash of crimes as increased pressure from police, doctors and the provincial prescription monitoring program reduces the supply of pills on the street.

ALCOHOL – USA
Substance-abuse program helps pregnant women deliver healthy babies – Daily Press

Fetal alcohol syndrome can include mental retardation, abnormal facial features and growth, memory, hearing vision, behavioral and central nervous system problems. There is no cure. The lifetime cost for one person with fetal alcohol syndrome in 2002 was an estimated $2 million.

ALCOHOL – USA
Keep Booze in Bars, Not at the Pit – Daily Lobo

Scott Owens, the guy who killed four teens near Santa Fe last summer was acquitted. His attorney never disputed Owens’ 0.16 blood-alcohol level — twice the presumptive legal intoxication limit. He only disputed reasonable certainty that Owens was solely responsible for the crash. The reasonable doubt was created by the teens’ erratic driving before the crash.

METHAMPHETAMINE – NEW ZEALAND
Fake tour group busted in New Zealand with $8 million of meth stashed in their shoes – New York Daily News

A group of Malaysians posing as tourists was busted in New Zealand after authorities found nearly two pounds of methamphetamine stashed in each of their shoes. Officials said the 10 traffickers were posing as an innocent tour group in order to try to …

HEROIN – USA
Portsmouth man sentenced for giving roommate fatal heroin dose – Daily Press

A Portsmouth man who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter after giving heroin to his friend was sentenced to 4 years.

ECSTASY/COCAINE – USA
Authorities charge 27 people in cocaine, ecstasy ring in Somerset, Middlesex Counties – The Star-Ledger

Baillie, 28, was one of 27 people recently snared in a three-month investigation that unearthed a cocaine and ecstasy ring in Somerset and Middlesex Counties.

ALCOHOL/DRUG ADDICTION – USA
Summit reveals the devastation of one bad decision – NorthJersey.com

“I brought alcohol, weed and pills to the party,” he said. Dean and his friends got drunk and took the drugs he had brought. Dean passed out. When he woke up he found out that his best friend had died from an overdose.

DRUG REHAB – USA
Keith Richards daughter Theodora in drug rehab, ordered to do community service – Examiner.com

Theodora (who did not have a prior criminal record) did not enter a plea in her case, and her attorney told the court that Theodora is currently in a drug-treatment program.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Prescription drug addiction: How the epidemic is shaking up the policy world – Scope

The county is a microcosm of the national epidemic of prescription drug addiction and overdose, which has spurred Congress to introduce legislation to crack down on “pill mills” and led the White House to unveil a new policy.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Police offering families free kits for drug tests (with video) – Livingston Daily

On May 11, Project Opiate will sponsor a community presentation on how prescription drug use can lead to drug addiction. The 7 pm event will be held in the media center of Highlander Way Middle School, 511 N. Highlander Way in Howell.

ALCOHOL – USA
MADD tackles county’s state-worst teen alcohol use – Valencia County News Bulletin

Teenage alcohol abuse is higher in Valencia County than anywhere else in the state. As many parents joke, there isn’t a manual for parenting, and our fast-paced, modern world can leave parenting skills in the dust. Mothers Against Drunk Driving want to help, and they have developed a program with research-proven strategies to help parents keep their children safe from the dangers of underage drinking.

ALCOHOL/PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Alcohol and meds can be lethal for seniors – Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Alcohol abuse is often triggered by changes in life such as retirement, death or separation from a spouse or family member, a friend or a pet, health concerns, reduced income, impairment of sleep and or family conflicts. Many older adults take prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, and herbal remedies. Drinking alcohol can cause certain medicines to not work properly and other medicines to become more dangerous or even deadly.

ECSTASY – UK
The health risks of taking ecstasy – Telegraph.co.uk

Ecstasy has been the drug of choice for club-goers over the past two decades, and the combination of taking pills while dancing all night has led to most reported deaths.

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Methamphetamine: Meth is ‘a perfect storm toxin,’ researcher says – Los Angeles Times

It’s well-known that highly addictive methamphetamine wreaks havoc. For an illustration of the drug’s ravages, just take a look at these before-and-after portraits from Portland, Ore. But faces and brains aren’t the only parts of the body the drug affects.

HEROIN – USA
Man arrested in Scottsdale hotel stabbing did it for heroin hit – AZ Central.com

One of two men accused of stabbing a man in a Scottsdale hotel last week did it for a hit of heroin.

DRUG ADDICTION – UK
80000 on benefits in UK due to addiction, obesity – Reuters

More than 21200 alcoholics and drug addicts have been receiving the payments for over 10 years.

DRUG ADDICTION – USA
Steven Tyler tackles drug addiction, Aerosmith via NBC special – Examiner.com

American Idol judge Steven Tyler will discuss the current season, overcoming a drug addiction and Aerosmith on a NBC special announced Thursday.

DRUG ADDICTION – USA
Jails shouldn’t ignore drug withdrawal symptoms – Tulsa World

“Groundbreaking discoveries about the brain have revolutionized our understanding of drug addiction, enabling us to respond effectively to the problem.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Drug Addiction Beyond The Cities – The Atlantic

On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced plans to fight prescription drug addiction nationally, noting that it was now killing more people than crack cocaine in the 1980s and heroin in the 1970s combined.

DRUG ADDICTION – UK
Charity Pays Thousands of Drug Addicts to Get Sterilized – Opposing Views

Barbara Harris believes that the best thing you can do for drug addicts is to pay for their sterilization. Harris and her American “charitable” organization, Project Prevention, made news late last year by offering UK drug addicts £200 if they would spend it to get sterilized.

DRUG REHAB – USA
No.1 method for cutting recidivism among addicts? Don’t send people to jail –
vtdigger.org

Because using and possessing some drugs is illegal, drug addicts are often thrown in jail before they get treatment for their addiction — even if the only law they broke was using and possessing the drug.

DRUG ADDICTION – UK
Dealer put pressure on addict over debts – Staffordshire Newsletter

A Stafford heroin addict forced to become a pusher to pay his drug debts has been jailed for two years. He was aiming to beat his drug addiction and intended to move away from the area.

ALCOHOL ABUSE – USA
“Blast” alcohol drink blasted by Maine AG – ‎WGME

They’re talking about Blast – an alcoholic drink made by Colt 45, and served in a 23.5 ounce can with a 12-percent alcohol content.

ALCOHOL – USA
CDC to states: Don’t privatize alcohol sales – Seattle Post Intelligencer

As they grapple with a $5.3 billion deficit, Washington’s lawmakers are considering two measures that would partially or totally privatize the state’s liquor operation. Proponents of both say such a move would increase tax revenues, but alcohol consumption increases dramatically in places that privatize liquor sales.

ENERGY DRINKS/ALCOHOL – USA
Effects of Energy Drinks Mixed with Alcohol on Behavioral Control: Risks for College Students Consuming Trendy Cocktails – Online Library

An energy drink appears to alter some of the objective and subjective impairing effects of alcohol, but not others. Energy drinks may contribute to a high-risk scenario for the drinker.

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Methamphetamine’s changing face: Drug cooks exploit loopholes – MLive.com

Six years after Michigan declared war on methamphetamine with a slew of new laws, the drug is back, worse than ever.

ALCOHOL ADDICTION – USA
Advocates assail proposed cuts in NH treatment - Boston Globe

“It was killing me and everyone around me,” Welch said of his addiction. Advocates say alcohol is big business in the state.

HEROIN – USA
Mother allegedly hid heroin in teenage son’s pants – Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies discovered six bags of heroin inside the pants of a 14-year-old in Canyon Country after pulling the boy’s mother over in a traffic stop, authorities said Wednesday. The 31-year-old mother from Lake Los Angeles admitted she hid the bags in her son’s pants.

MOLLY – USA
Drug ‘Molly’ may have played role in SUNY Canton student’s suicide – WatertownDailyTimes.com

A Suny Canton student who committed suicide Sunday night is suspected to have taken a drug named “Molly,” which produces effects similar to Ecstasy. Police said they were searching for those who supplied him with the drug.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
FDA and White House Combat Prescription Drug Abuse – Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine

The plan, titled “Epidemic: Responding to America’s Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis,” aims to expand state-based prescription-drug monitoring programs, recommends convenient and environmentally responsible drug-disposal methods, supports education for patients and healthcare providers, and directs law-enforcement resources against “doctor shopping” (i.e., visiting several prescribers to obtain controlled substances).

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Lawmakers fault anti-drug abuse plan’s lack of painkiller restrictions – The Hill

A pair of Republican lawmakers is taking the Obama administration to task for not considering tougher restrictions on painkillers in its new strategy to combat prescription drug abuse.

DRUG REHAB – USA
School nurse pushing for Mineral County youth drug rehab – Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune

She hopes the community will support the endeavor. “Everybody in some way or another has been touched by drug addition,” she said.

DRUG REHAB – USA
Former Mich. drug addict prepares for 10K run – Chicago Tribune

The Guiding Light runners also could take inspiration from Odyssey House in New York City, where recovering drug addicts have built a notable record of achievement by training for and completing the 26.2 miles of the New York City Marathon.

ECSTASY – USA
Corpus Christi police find 10000 Ecstasy tablets – Corpus Christi Caller Times

Officers found a bag containing 4.85 pounds of Ecstasy tablets, which have a street value of more than $100,000.

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Meth ‘Cook Houses’ Gone, Demand For Drug Lingers – NPR

Most of the crystal methamphetamine sold in the U.S. today is manufactured south of the border. Riverside County, Calif., has become a transportation hub for the drug.

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Colorado bill further targeting medications associated with meth manufacture – Denver Post

“Unfortunately, users and drug abusers and drug dealers always try to think of a new way to make drugs,” said Ernest Martinez, president of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association. “Even moving them back behind the counter is not conducive to stopping them from doing what they are doing.”

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Police say meth lab discovered in Genesee County – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Matthew J. Zon, 29, and Tricia M. Tundo, 24, each were charged with unlawful disposal of methamphetamine laboratory material, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree criminally using drug paraphernalia.

ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION – USA
Jodie Sweetin’s Kids Unaware of Her Drug Struggles – People Magazine

It’s been a long road to recovery for Jodie Sweetin, who battled with alcohol and meth addiction on and off for more than a decade.

ALCOHOL ABUSE – NEW ZEALAND
“Breakfast Beer” Slammed by Critics – Fox News

The beer, made by Marlborough brewery Moa, contains 5.5 percent alcohol. National Addiction Centre director Doug Sellman said the marketing of the beer was “a completely irresponsible stunt from a health and addiction perspective, because it is normalizing pathological behavior.”

DRUG ADDICTION – USA
New Narconon Video Refutes Myth that Drugs Stay in the System Just a Short Time – San Francisco Chronicle

In my case, being able to build a new, positive drug-free life for myself through the Narconon drug rehab program truly saved my life.” Even the National Institute on Drug Abuse agrees that drugs can stay in the system for a year or more. …

DRUG REHAB – USA
From drug addiction to sober superstar: Rangers’ Josh Hamilton is a special MVP – Dallas Morning News

1 overall pick to drug addict to clean, sober superstar had finally reached the point every little boy dreams about: He’s going to the World Series. Better still, he’s the main reason the Texas Rangers are AL champions for the first time in their 38 …

DRUG REHAB – CANADA
Finally free from prison of addiction – The Chronicle Herald.ca

A healthy, vibrant young woman with a wide, ready smile, Sarah has reclaimed her life from the prescription drug addiction that once consumed her. She has come a long way from her days of snorting Dillies — the street name for Dilaudid — nine times a day.

DRUG ADDICTION – AUSTRALIA
World super-middleweight boxing champion Ricky Thornberry jailed for two years –
Courier Mail

Barrister Peter Nolan, for Thornberry, said his client had confirmed he was battling a serious drug addiction which was triggered by the decline of his boxing career. “After his (boxing) career came to an end he went into a downward spiral (and drug addiction.”

DRUG ADDICTION – USA
Former drug addict talks about struggle, hopes to help others – WEAU-TV 13

Even at the age of 13, Bill Westerman says he couldn’t escape the lure of illegal drugs. He started smoking marijuana with friends because of peer pressure. Occasional drug use quickly turned into an addiction. He says he eventually moved on to what he calls “harder drugs,” even cocaine. But once he got caught, he went to prison for six years starting in March of 2003. “I lost everything: my wife, my house, my truck, my self-respect, my family,”

DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION – USA
Seniors deal with ‘silent’ substance abuse – WVLT ‎

“Since I was an alcoholic and a drug addict, and I am 70, a lot of my friends were. And by the way a lot of them are dead, as the result,” he said. “Seniors may have a problem with their prescription drugs, and they may have a problem with alcohol.”

ALCOHOL ABUSE – USA
Alcohol-prevention program starting up for prom season – Foster’s Daily Democrat

According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 93.4 percent of them got it for free the last time they drank. As well, more than 44 percent of the youth who reported drinking in the past month said they got it for free from either a family member or their home.

DRUG ADDICTION – UK
Mum jailed for trying to cure her daughter’s drug addiction appeals – Kent Online

The court heard how the couple tried to stop Tabitha from climbing out of a window at the family home to do a deal with a drug dealer outside. “Drugs are a real evil of our times..Many people tell me any parent would do all they could in such a case.”

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Governor Scott Outlines Prescription Drug Problem In Florida – Gov Monitor

In the months since I was sworn in as Florida’s Governor, I have heard firsthand the heart wrenching stories from family members and friends of those who have lost their livelihoods, and, tragically, their loved ones to prescription drug addiction.

DRUG ADDICTION – USA
Drug-prevention seminars offered through June 1 – Canton Repository

The Stark County Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Outreach Project will present free drug preventional and educational seminars on Wednesdays, Wednesday, April 13, through June 1.

ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION – CANADA
Addict tells students the hard facts about drug and alcohol use – Sault Star
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Christie, a 30-year recovering alcoholic and drug addict, is in Sault Ste. Marie this week speaking to senior elementary and secondary school students on the consequences of experimenting with drugs and alcohol. “Elementary school is the right time for this talk. By high school it’s too late, the kids have likely made their choices,”

HEROIN – USA
Heroin deaths nearly triple in Lake County – Chicago Tribune

The death rate from heroin in Lake County has nearly tripled since 2007, and the sheriff believes it’s because heroin is relatively cheap and potent. Sheriff Mark Curran says there has been “an explosion” of heroin overdose deaths.

HEROIN – UK
Heroin overdose antidote should be given to prisoners, ministers told – The Guardian

One in eight prisoners take a heroin overdose within two weeks of leaving jail, Les Iversen said. The government’s official drug advisers are urging ministers to provide all prisoners at risk of overdosing with a “magic medicine” that could save up to 500 lives a year.

ALCOHOL ABUSE – USA
Alcohol Awareness Goes Hand in Hand With April – Patch.com

April is Alcohol Awareness Month. The Community Parent Center encourages parents to educate themselves and then talk to their teens about alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and other risky behaviors.

ALCOHOL ABUSE – USA
Inside Slant: Alcohol abuse at the ballpark is not acceptable behavior – The Desert Sun

Several witnesses told police the attackers of the Giants fan were drunk. As long as alcohol abuse continues to be treated as acceptable behavior in our ballparks and on our roads, people will continue to suffer the consequences.

ALCOHOL ABUSE – USA
An Issue of Influence: Alcohol, drugs can lead to domestic abuse – Park Rapids Enterprise

The annual cost to the nation of untreated abuse of alcohol and other drugs is $276 billion, yet only $3 billion is spent on prevention, treatment, and research of substance abuse of all types – with only a small amount designated for child welfare cases.

ALCOHOL ABUSE – AUSTRALIA
No booze if ID on ban list – NTNews.com.au

Problem drinkers will be banned from buying alcohol at takeaway bottleshops in the Territory if their name appears on a banned list. All Territorians will have their ID scanned at bottleshop registers in an attempt to curb alcohol abuse.

DRUG ADDICTION – USA
Personal stories help parents learn to identify drug warning signs – The Daily Courier

Two-hundred parents learned recently at Prescott Mile High Middle School how easy it is for kids to get hooked on drugs, strategies to keep them drug-free and how to identify commonly used drugs and paraphernalia. Moak’s oldest son hid his addiction to marijuana and cocaine from the family for two years.

DRUG REHAB – USA
NAACP report highlights ‘misplaced priorities’ of jails over schools – Washington Post

Not only are the statistics startling in “Misplaced Priorities: Over Incarcerate, Under Educate,” so is the group of people rallying around the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization’s push to adopt alternatives to incarceration.

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Number seeking treatment for meth addiction risen steadily since mid-1990s – Southeast Missourian

Sullivan-Jones and Daugherty are two of the thousands who’ve dealt with drug addiction in Missouri. On average, 58000 Missourians are struggling with an addictive disorder every year, according to the Missouri Department of Public Safety.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Littlest victims of Rx abuse: Newborns – STLtoday.com

The mother had abused prescription painkillers like OxyContin for the first 12 weeks of her pregnancy, She got the call in the middle of the night: Her 3-day-old baby was going through opiate withdrawal in a hospital.

ALCOHOL ABUSE – USA
Alcohol Abuse in College – New York Times
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A study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, “Wasting the Best and the Brightest,” found that on college campuses each year, as a result of alcohol abuse about 100000 women are sexually assaulted, 700,000 students are injured and 2,000 students die from violence and accidents.

ECSTASY – USA
Boy, 7, shares Ecstasy pills at South Texas school – Houston Chronicle

Lt. Martin Morales says it does not appear that any of the boys took the pills. The father is facing charges of possession of a controlled substance and five counts of endangering a child. Police recovered nearly 350 pills, believed to be Ecstasy,

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Cracking Down On Prescription Drug Theft – WKBW-TV

At Tile Pharmacy in Cheektowaga, US Senator Charles Schumer announced his plan to crack down on prescription drug theft that is fueling an unprecedented spike in drug abuse in Buffalo and Western NY. In just the first three months of 2011, the Upstate New York Poison Control Center reports that there have been 121 cases of prescription drug abuse in Erie County alone.

COCAINE – USA
Dennis Quaid Admits to Past Drug Addiction – San Diego Entertainer Magazine

Quaid, star of Soul Surfer, The Big Easy, The Right Stuff, and Any Given Sunday talks about his drug addiction. “I was getting an hour of sleep a night,” he writes, “I’d wake up, snort a line, and swear I wasn’t going to do it again that day. But then 4 o’clock rolled around, and I’d be right back down the same road like a little squirrel on one of those treadmills. The lack of sleep made it so my focus wasn’t really there, which affected my acting.”

DRUG REHAB – USA
Baseball world shocked as Ramirez retires – AFP

LOS ANGELES — The American baseball community expressed surprise and shock that disgraced slugger Manny Ramirez chose to retire rather than take part in the league’s drug rehab programme for a second time. The Tampa Bay player called it a day Friday,

DRUG REHAB – USA
School nurse pushing for Mineral County youth drug rehab – Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune

By Liz Beavers FORT ASHBY – As a school nurse at three schools in the Frankfort District, Tammy Hansford can see a very clear need for drug and alcohol rehabilitation services for adolescents. Noting that there is a normal waiting period of six weeks. “Once somebody decides they want help, you have to get them help,” she said.

ALCOHOL – USA
Few Alcoholics Realize They Need Help – WebMD
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration says that of the nation’s 7.4 million adults aged 21 and 64 who have untreated alcohol abuse, only 1.2% believe they could benefit from treatment. And only 7.8% recognize that they need treatment.

ALCOHOL – AUSTRALIA
Here’s to me – Sydney Morning Herald
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After four years documenting the nation’s escalating toll of alcohol abuse as a health writer, I knew more than most about the consequences of risky drinking. But it didn’t deter me. I was first on the dance floor, last to leave the party and winner of the inaugural ”Jill Stark drinking award” at last year’s staff Christmas bash.

ALCOHOL – AUSTRALIA
Pregnant women could face ban on buying alcohol – ABC Online
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The Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation owns three shops in Alice Springs and is concerned about the effects of foetal alcohol syndrome in babies. The corporation’s Darryl Pearce says Alice Springs is facing many problems associated with alcohol abuse.

ALCOHOL – USA
Alcohol Abuse – Effect Of Underage Binge Drinking To Brain Development Disclosed – Star Global Tribune‎

This may come as a surprise to some, but recent surveys indicate that episodes of heavy alcohol drinking within the previous two weeks are reported by 12 percent of 8th graders, 22 percent of 10th graders, 28 percent of 12th grade seniors and 44 …

ECSTASY – CANADA
Bad ecstasy puts several in hospital – TheChronicleHerald
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Several young Haligonians have gotten seriously ill after ingesting bad ecstasy and at least one is still in hospital, Halifax drug officers said Thursday. “They were in a serious medical condition,” said Constable David Lane.

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Sheriff: Mobile meth labs create ‘toxic’ dangers to highway cleanup crews – Muskegon Chronicle
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The toxic residue is found on paraphernalia used to make “mobile” methamphetamine labs, said Muskegon County Sheriff Dean Roesler. Mobile meth labs are operated out of vehicles and then discarded along highways statewide, Roesler said.