An exclusive investigation by MyFoxDetroit.com showed workers at the plant drinking beer and smoking joints while on a half-hour lunch break just two months after President Obama praised the plant in a speech. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/27/chrysler-workers-caught-drinking-lunch-break-fired/

Many alcohol and drug treatment centers across the country are seeing an increase in adolescents come in who have become addicted to drugs you can find over the counter at your local pharmacy or department store. Many teens are mixing these OTC products with other products to make them more potent and give them a…

Port Neches-Groves High School principal Marc Keith said the random drug-testing program at his school, which is in its third year, is an effective tool for reducing drug instances on campus. “I know the data we’ve seen through the years have shown a lot less drug activity,” he said. Keith said he’s able to track…

The use of illicit drugs among Americans increased between 2008 and 2009 according to a national survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) shows the overall rate of current illicit drug use in the United States rose from 8.0 percent of…

Prescription drug use has spread nationally for more than a decade, and once the trend hit the Cape and Islands, it spread fast. Pills brought heroin, a cheaper, potent and extremely dangerous high, to the suburbs. The number of patients with opiate addiction at Gosnold, the Cape’s only drug treatment center, has soared from 24…

The RCMP in Cranbrook is alerting people about what they believe is a new method of disguising and trafficking drugs. While searching a local residence earlier this year, police located a bag of candy that seemed out of the ordinary and suspicious. They decided to investigate further and sent the gummi bears to the drug…

While the Food and Drug Administration is set to hold hearings later this month on the risks and abuse of over-the-counter cough medicines, a new poll found that law enforcement officials and teachers say marijuana and alcohol abuse are still the biggest threats facing teenagers. http://www.afro.com/sections/news/afro_briefs/story.htm?storyid=2502

Admissions for substance abuse treatment among those aged 50 and older have more than doubled, and their sociodemographic characteristics have significantly changed, between 1992 and 2008, according to a study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). http://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/advisories/1009083541.aspx

Across the country, pharmacy robberies are on the rise, partly because of the increasing demand for prescription drugs, according to law enforcement officers and industry officials. Prescription painkillers rank second behind marijuana as the country’s most common illegal drug problem, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5guBHmmmK0v9Yr4CTUT6oDqRdiEfgD9I38C100