Drug News

ALCOHOL – UK
Are British Youth Drinking And Bingeing More? – Medical News Today

The UK Youth Alcohol Action plan was released in June – targeting alcohol use by underage drinkers. The report cites encouraging evidence.

ALCOHOL – UK
How To Save $1 Billion And 800 Lives In Canada – Medical News Today

The economic burden of alcohol abuse costs each Canadian $463 per year. In fact, the direct health care costs for alcohol abuse in Canada exceed those of cancer.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Prescription Drug Proposal Expands – WEEK TV

It’s one class project that’s stretching way beyond school grounds. Students at Pontiac Township High School developed the Prescription Drug Disposal Program about five months ago.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Prescription drug abuse rising among youth – Union Democrat

Alcohol has long been the cornerstone of youthful experimentation. More and more, teens and young adults are tapping into those child-safe orange bottles as an additional means to a high.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
5 Ways to Avoid Prescription Drugs – Stop Aging Now

Before you get that prescription filled, consider what lifestyle changes you could make, first. Just these five changes can make a big difference in your condition or your risk.

METH – USA
Report: Valley teens’ attitudes about meth are changing – ABC TV News

It’s hard not to notice the billboards around the Valley. You know, the ones showing methamphetamine addicts in all their glory, sores on the mouths, rotted out teeth and skin aged beyond their years.

METH – USA
Acoma hosts meth awareness meeting – Cibola County Beacon

It isn’t here in full force, but it will be. It is methamphetamine and it will not let you go once it takes hold.

MARIJUANA – USA
Marijuana more potent than ever – Los Angeles Times

Marijuana is more potent than at any time since scientific analysis of the drug began in the 1970s, according to a report from the University of Mississippi’s Potency Monitoring Project.

MARIJUANA – UK
US report says Marijuana strength increasing – Telegraph

Marijuana strength has increased to its highest levels in more than 30 years, according to a report by scientists.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Legal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Says – The New York Times
From “Scarface” to “Miami Vice,” Florida’s drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Capitol Hill Watch | Prescription Drug Television Ads Should Be Required To Include Toll-Free Number, Web Site for Consumers To Report Serious Side Effects to FDA, Lawmakers Say – Kaiser Network

Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) on Wednesday asked FDA to mandate that all prescription drug television advertisements include information for consumers to report serious side effects to the agency.

METH – USA
Montana Meth Project releases new ads – Montana Kaimin

Revealed Tuesday, the newest series of the print, radio and television campaign on behalf of the non-profit organization intends to use more stark images to reach their target demographic, which the new executive director of the Montana Meth Project, Dennis Taylor, said is working.

DRUGS – USA
Drug poisoning deaths on the rise – USA Today

Poisoning continues to be the second-leading cause of injury deaths in the USA, outstripping deaths caused by firearms for the second year in a row, a federal report says.

METH – USA
Stop meth in its tracks! – Cherokee County Herald

The Cherokee County Narcotics Unit is a division of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s office, which includes the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office working in cooperation with all area law enforcement. The Unit assists other law enforcement agencies in this county where and whenever it can.
ALCOHOL – UK
Police apply litmus test to foil underage alcohol consumption – ic Sefton and West Lancs

POLICE using litmus tests have helped to confiscate more than a thousand alcoholic drinks from youngsters in Sefton. The council is heralding the success of a campaign tackling young people buying and drinking alcohol.

ALCOHOL – INDIA
Study Says “tweens” Benefit from Alcohol-prevention Programs – Med India

Early alcohol abuse prevention program for kids between 8 and 12 years of age may prove beneficial in the long run especially as many young users are taking to the spirits in a big way, a new study has revealed.

ALCOHOL – USA
Teengers say it’s easy to get alcohol – Joliet Herald News

Teens attending the meeting were taken to a separate room and asked questions by volunteer coaches. When they returned, the teens admitted that around 98 percent of teens they knew drank.

ALCOHOL – USA
Alcohol drug of choice for teens – Sun Sentinel

Alcohol is the drug most frequently used by American teenagers. Young people drink alcohol more frequently than they use all other illicit drugs combined, and alcohol is the drug responsible for more than 6,500 deaths per year.

ALCOHOL – USA
Teen alcohol use focus of forums – The Olympian

Alcohol-awareness groups and parents gathered Wednesday to discuss changing adult drinking habits — similar to the way tobacco habits have changed — as a way to curb underage alcohol abuse.

ALCOHOL – USA
Early alcohol prevention programs for ‘tweens’ is imperative: Study – Daily India

With an increasing number of youngsters getting addicted to booze, a new study has looked at how important it is to have early alcohol preventive programs for teens, or kids between 8 to 12 years.