An herb-and-chemical compound sold legally in the U.S. as incense is sending many of those who smoke it to the hospital, Reuters reported July 29. http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2010/er-visits-for-synthetic-pot.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=%23addiction%20%23drugs

New government figures show that the use of prescription narcotics – powerful opium-based painkillers that can be deadly when taken incorrectly – continues to skyrocket. Also, the number of overdose deaths involving painkillers has exploded to the point where fatal overdoses of drugs such as Vicodin, OxyContin and morphine now outnumber those caused by street…

The credit crisis appears to have sobered up Wall Street in more ways than one. A review of drug-test data compiled by drug testing firm Sterling Infosystems Inc., shows that cocaine is losing its favor among investment professionals. What drug is their choice? Marijuana. http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/08/20/wall-street-drug-use-employees-giving-up-cocaine-for-pot-and-pills/

Thirty-one of 75 patients hospitalized for opioid detoxification told University physicians they first got hooked on drugs legitimately prescribed for pain. Another 24 began with a friend’s left-over prescription pills or pilfered from a parent’s medicine cabinet. The remaining 20 patients said they got hooked on street drugs. However, 92 percent of the patients in…

It took me eight minutes to get a doctor’s recommendation for medical marijuana. The less time physicians spend with medicinal-pot seekers the better, according to Christ, executive director of Montana Caregivers Network. The controversial group has helped thousands of Montanans sign up for medical marijuana cards at traveling clinics and via Internet consultations.My eight-minute conversation…

A RUTHLESS east European gang flooding Scotland with a lethal legal high can be exposed today. The £10-a-capsule drug – called Benzo Fury – has already raised alarm among Scots medical chiefs after clubbers bought it over the internet. And there are escalating fears it could take over from now-banned mephedrone, known as Meow Meow.…

STORY HIGHLIGHTSDoctor says most women in center became addicted through their husbands Drugs are used to calm crying children, causing them to become addicted too U.S. State Department says prevalence of drug use in Afghanistan is “alarming” Afghanistan produces 94 percent of the world’s opiates http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/18/afghanistan.drugs.women/

Mexican Drug Cartels have reached across the international border into the United States to kill people including Americans and their reach extends North, East and West across our nation. MDC’S have ordered the killings of drug dealers, American gang members, U.S. Consulate employees, a Detention Officer with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, DEA agent,…

Oklahoma has six of the 15 regions in the country with the highest rates of nonmedical pain-reliever use, according to a new report. Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=16&articleid=20100819_16_A1_WASHIN811498&allcom=1

Nearly a third of students aged 12 to 17 in public schools say their schools are “infected” with both gangs and drugs, according to a survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA). According to the report, 66 percent of high school students said their schools were drug-infected, a…