Drug News

DRUG TREATMENT/DRUG COURT – USA
CA’s Budget Woes Put the Squeeze on Drug Offender Treatment – Newstalk1290 KPAY

California’s budget crisis is putting the squeeze on a novel approach that sent low-level drug offenders to treatment programs instead of prisons or …

HEROIN – UK
New record set as heroin worth £2m is seized – Herald Scotland

Police in Edinburgh have made their largest single haul of heroin after seizing £2 million-worth of the drug in a raid. About a dozen officers from Lothian …

HEROIN – USA
USC employee says heroin made him do it – The State

Addiction to heroin led former University of South Carolina employee Lawrence Godwin III to steal some $179000 from the …

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Meth offender, 80, sentenced to 10 years – Seattle Post Intelligencer

The US attorney’s office says an 80-year-old man arrested after trying to ship 23 pounds of methamphetamine from Washington state to Alaska by car has been …

HEROIN/COCAINE/DRUG LAW REFORM – UK
Drugs law reform can get rid of dealers, insists Coventry MP Bob Ainsworth – Birmingham Post

Former Home Office Minister Bob Ainsworth said he wanted to “replace dealers with doctors” as he argued for radical reform of drug laws in the House of Commons.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
Prescription drugs may lead to abuse – St. George Daily Spectrum

According to the Utah Department of Health, Utah leads the nation in prescription drug abuse. Six percent of Utah residents use painkillers non-medically. …

HEROIN – USA
Dealing with heroin’s stigma – St. George Daily Spectrum

Being known as a community with a growing heroin problem is not a reputation Southern Utah is looking to cultivate and addicts and experts agree …