Recent Drug Abuse Articles page 3

Prague Post - ... Mayor Job Cohen announced Dec. 17 plans to clean up the city’s red light district by clamping down on organized criminals Reuters reported. The decision is intended to fight activities such as human trafficking money laundering and drug abuse.

New York Times - It promoted the drug not only to pain specialists, but to family doctors with little experience in treating serious pain or recognizing drug abuse. As a result of the expanded access, critics charged, OxyContin wound up in the high schools and street ...

Bradenton Herald - Officials say prescription drug abuse is not only a source of crime, but a major cause of death in Manatee and throughout the state. A recent state report on drugs identified in corpses shows prescription drug abuse is on a deadly upward trend. In the ...

Jamaica Gleaner - IN AN attempt to address the issue of drug abuse, a court to deal specifically with certain drug abuse offenders has been introduced in two locations in Kingston and Montego Bay, St. James. The court represents a collaborative effort between the ...

ABC News - Here is a list of some of the known potential side effects of steroid use, compiled by the ABC News medical unit from interviews with medical specialists and information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Some Known Potential Side Effects ...

Times Online - It is thought that he died of drug abuse, although the Bhutto family insists that he was poisoned. In 1986 Ms Bhutto returned from exile to take on the leadership of the party to a rally of at least a million – a spontaneous expression of support ...

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 ...

Baltimore Sun - Jacques Normand, chief of the AIDS program at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "There is no question in this country that there's a substantial epidemiological relationship between crack and HIV transmission. It all comes down to the trading of ...

Daily News Journal - There are 230 children in foster care in Rutherford County, Maguigan said, adding that, statistically, more than half of the children are removed because of drug abuse occurring in the home. The family drug court will be built to handle between 20 and ...