Drug Abuse Articles page 9

WCAX - "Drugs are attractive. We live in a drug culture," says Bob Bick. Bick is director of Substance Abuse Services at the Howard Center in Burlington, where they've seen the number of people addicted to prescription drugs rise in the past few years. It's ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer - On Dec. 10, the U.S. Supreme Court gave judges some discretion in sentencing for crack cocaine offenses. One day later, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, intending to narrow the stark disparity between sentences for crack versus powder cocaine, revised ...

Philadelphia Daily News - Nance and Lane are a couple with a criminal history of drug abuse, he said. Whaley is accused of helping to dispose of the body afterward. He led authorities to the body in an industrial park about 40 miles northeast of Knoxville near this east ...

Saskatoon Star Phoenix - His family doctor, the first witness to testify at the week-long inquest, said Mountney had a history of drug abuse but was not part of a medical methadone treatment program. Dr. Lorne Straza told the jury taking illegal doses of methadone when the ...

PR Inside - Former BABYSHAMBLES guitarist PATRICK WALDEN has finally revealed he left the PETE DOHERTY-fronted band because of the heightened level of drug abuse. Walden quit Babyshambles in December 2005 because he was concerned at the level of infamy ...

Herald South Africa - Those who are drug addicts are never truly rehabilitated – they are beyond it and damaged for life.” Keith Mountjoy, who heads up the Save Our Selves (SOS) campaign against alcohol and drug abuse in Bitou, said SOS would be taking her talk to all ...

Norwalk Reflector - Email this story Print this story No comments posted. Front ONLINE EXCLUSIVE - Plymouth's only dentist loses his license due to drug abuse | Monday January 21 2008, 10:52am PLYMOUTH - Dr. Jeffery B. Stoller's license to practice was indefinitely ...

Charleston Gazette - Drug use among pregnant women in West Virginia appears to be increasing rapidly, crowding hospital newborn intensive-care units and prompting state lawmakers to search for a solution. The number of newborns treated for drug withdrawal doubled from ...

News.com.au - But, for others, the night ended in alcohol-fuelled bloody violence. The Herald Sun saw the random attacks, alcohol and drug abuse while riding with the Metropolitan Ambulance Service on the 6pm to 6am shift. For MAS field manager Alan Eade, a ...

News.com.au - Our survey of 15,000 readers named the epidemic of street violence as chief concern and, unsurprisingly, put alcohol and drug abuse second and third. They won't tolerate it in sport and don't want it on the streets or at home either. But this goes ...