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Random drug testing being the norm in school districts is a touchy subject among teachers. The mother of a Bangor, Northampton Co., teacher who died from a heroin overdose said district-mandated drug testing could have saved her daughter’s life. Officials from the Bangor Area School District did not get back to 69 News, but a…

A school in Santa Fe is taking a strong stance in its fight against drugs. Starting next fall, St. Michael’s Catholic School plans to begin randomly drug testing its students, and that has a lot of parents talking. “It doesn’t matter what school, what city, what town, you’re going to find drugs. No family’s going…

There have been so many artists in the music industry plagued by problems with drugs and alcohol over the years. Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson – the list goes on and on … and now, everyone’s talking about the death of Whitney Houston. Although the official toxicology reports have yet…

The Defense Department’s drug-testing program is expanding to add screening for two additional prescription medications to the range of legal and illegal drugs it currently detects. Joe Angello, the department’s director of operational readiness and safety, told Pentagon Channel and American Forces Press Service reporters the two drugs added to the screening program — hydrocodone…

Chris Hamilton, senior vice president of the West Virginia Coal Association, said those two states have suspended 2,000 coal miners who failed drug tests. Some of them are licensed in West Virginia and could mine here. Companies are trying to screen for drug abuse. “A number of companies have instituted mandatory drug testing programs over…

The world’s largest drug testing company using hair analysis received its seventh United States Patent dedicated to liquefying hair to release drug analytes. Acton, Massachusetts, January 24, 2012 – Psychemedics Corporation (NASDAQ:PMD) , hair testing pioneer and global leader for 25 years, announced today that the United States Patent Office issued a seventh patent, US…

In 2007, approximately 27,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, one death every 19 minutes. Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States. The increase in unintentional drug overdose death rates in recent years (Figure 1) has been driven by increased use of a class of prescription…

A Mississippi truck driver has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for a drug-fueled chase on Interstate 81 through Maryland in which he targeted police and caused four collisions. McNeel testified at his trial he had used methamphetamine and a synthetic drug known as “bath salts” the morning before the chase on Dec. 20,…