Drug News

DRUG REHAB – GLOBAL
Eric Clapton auctions guitars for drug rehab clinic – Seer Press‎

Legendary musician Eric Clapton will be selling 150 items, including 70 guitars, for his drug rehab clinic in Antigua. This will mark the third time Clapton …

DRUG COURT – CANADA
Drug treatment court aims to break cycle of crime – Waterloo Record ‎

Kitchener is about to join a handful of cities across Canada who have drug treatment courts. The weekly court, to begin Feb. 2, will be held in Ontario …

SUBSTANCE ABUSE – USA
Substance abuse treatment admission rates show dramatic shifts from 1998 to 2008 – Examiner.com ‎

Drug treatment admission rates, as well as types of drugs involved during the period of 1998 to 2008 shows dramatic shifts says a new study out by the …

DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION/TREATMENT – PORTUGAL
Switch succeeds – Scranton Times-Tribune ‎

Users are sent to counseling and for treatment rather than to prison. After 10 years, Portugal has reported a 20 percent increase in drug treatment and a 66 …

DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION/TREATMENT – USA
Portugal’s drug policy and how USA is looking to do same – Planet News World ‎

10 years past, the Lisbon locality was a hell on earth, a “drug supermarket” wherever roughly 5000 users lined up each day to purchase heroin and slipped …

ALCOHOL – USA
Wine, strong beer idea questioned by Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws – NewsOK.com ‎

The Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission worries putting wine and strong beer in grocery stores will cause alcohol abuse to increase. …

ALCOHOL – GLOBAL
SIDS rate spikes 33 percent for New Year’s Day, study says – StandardNet ‎

A large-scale study looking at the connection between SIDS and alcohol was conducted by University of California sociologist David Phillips from 1973 to …

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Social Issue – Pill Mills – Florida Newsmakers of the Year – Florida Trend ‎

Prescription drug deaths climbed to 2488 in 2009 — a rate of seven deaths per day — making prescription drug abuse the No. 1 Killer of Middle-Aged Floridians.