Drug News

DRUG ADDICTION – USA
Teens Getting High on Sonic Drugs – First Coast News

It may sound far-fetched, but websites are selling sonic drugs. The websites claim that by listening to specific frequencies, you can get the same effect as if you actually took recreational, prescription and hallucinogenic drugs.

DRUG REHAB – USA
Suncoast Rehab Center Saves Alcoholic Mother’s Life with Narconon Program – PRWeb

Upon completing the Narconon long term residential program delivered at Suncoast Rehab, Julie M. returned home to her son who now has restored his faith in her.

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS – USA
CDC: Prescription drug epidemic worsens, Hoosiers impacted – Fox 59

A recent report from the CDC shows prescription drugs, specifically painkillers, are responsible for more deaths annually than some street drugs combined. Overdoses from prescription painkillers are skyrocketing across the U.S., according to the CDC, and Hoosiers have not escaped what health officials are calling a public health epidemic.

ALCOHOL ABUSE – USA
We don’t need more access to alcohol – Herald Times Reporter
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In Wisconsin, where problems associated with the abuse of alcohol already soar above national levels, the last thing the Legislature should be considering is increasing the availability of alcohol.

DRUG ABUSE – USA
Wall Street turns a blind eye to drugs – The USD Vista

Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck both called Occupy Wall Street protesters “crackheads,” but behind the actual firms of Wall Street lies a widely undocumented and hidden drug culture. After an undercover drug operation on Wall Street, DEA agents once said that “cocaine was either used or accepted by 90 percent of the people they met in the financial community.”

METHAMPHETAMINE – USA
Crystal fear: Drop in meth prices concerns law enforcement – The Daily Sentinel

Methamphetamine — public enemy No. 1 for Grand Valley law enforcement and the focus of aggressive enforcement and attention by government entities — is available at prices not seen in three to five years. The cost of a dealer-quantity ounce of meth has hit lows some say were last known when law enforcement struck a major first blow in March 2006 with the arrests of a 30-plus-member drug ring.

MEPHEDRONE/MEOW MEOW – NEW ZEALAND
Party drug’s brain tricks explained for first time – New Zealand Doctor

A researcher at the University of Sydney has for the first time explained how the increasingly common street drug mephedrone affects the brain, helping to explain why it is potentially such an addictive substance.

ALCOHOL – USA
Moderate alcohol consumption can increase breast cancer risk – WRAL
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Can a glass of wine at lunch or a couple of drinks after work increase the risk for breast cancer over the course of a woman’s lifetime? Alcohol abuse has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer for some time, but what doctors didn’t know is how lower or moderate patterns of drinking over the course of a woman’s lifetime impact the risk.